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I have nothing but praise for .NET Reactor. It seems that I'm one of those customers that end up breaking software all the time. .NET Reactor was no different. My code caused some very strange reflection bugs at least a couple times. I sent them a sample program each time my code caused it to bomb. They fixed the program within a couple weeks each time. The program now works as advertised. I'm to the point now where I'm going to include .NET Reactor as part of my build process. I will be using its command-line interface for this. Eriziz updates .NET Reactor on a regular basis. This is a very good thing in this software space. This keeps hackers on their toes, which means one less thing that I have to worry about. My next step from here is creating a 30-day trial, and setup an automated licensing system. Here's a list of the tools that I use for both programming and maintaining my website: Programming .NET Libraries Intallation Databases - SQL Server 2000
- SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
- SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition
- SQLite - http://www.sqlite.org
Graphics Website System Administration Project Management These tools are the ones I want to use, but for lack of funds, time, or knowledge, I haven't been able to incorporate into my practices: I'm just amazed at the sheer number of programs that I'm using. I'm pretty sure I left out some, since I did this from memory. A couple of these are just way too expensive at this time. I'm hoping to purchase them with the proceeds of the sales from the first version of PainlessSVN. This is one of the few disadvantages of growning a company organically. I have been making a habit to purchase applications and apps from microISVs. I also check the Business of Software forums and Larkware News for other microISVs for tools that could make my life easier. After much thought and research, I've decided on how to price PainlessSVN. The price will be 49.95 USD. I will have a special introductory price of 29.95 USD for the first month after PainlessSVN is released. I decided to avoid taking money before the 1.0 release. This will be my first product, and I want customers to have a good experience. This will also lower my stress levels. I don't have a set release date, other than sometime in September, barring any unforseen problems. I will turn my attention to setting up the eCommerce stuff, once I get Beta 1 out the door. I have decided to use e-Junkie to handle payments and licensing. I will start with PayPal, then 2CheckOut, as I already have accounts for these already. I still haven't decided if I want to use Google Checkout as well. This took a while to find out, especially since MSDN doesn't have this information. A kind soul on the Microsoft.Public.Management.MMC newsgroup pointed to the answer. His name is Larry Gillstrom. Thanks Larry! Read on to see how this is done... I had a few people that asked me to explain how to detect and download the .NET 2.0 framework. I got started with a snippet from a guy with Stucko as his handle on the Joel On Software forums. I tweaked it, added more code, until I got it working pretty good. I'm giving the community an Inno Setup script that all it does is detect, download, and install .NET 2.0 if it doesn't find it. You will need to get Download DLL from http://www.istool.org/default.aspx/isx/isxdl, then change the path to isxdl.dll under the [Files] section. Read more to see the code to do this, or download the zip file.
Just giving back to the community that has helped me so much... I was reading Scott Hanselman's feed today, and found out that he used to work at Incredible Universe in 1992. I worked at Incredible Universe in 1995 at the Phoenix location. This is now a Frys. Talk about a small world! Another thing that we both have in common is that we both have medical conditions that need monitoring. Scott has diabetes, and I have allergies to milk and wheat. Here's the blog article I was reading on his blog: Update: I found a picture of the Frys that used to be Incredible Universe in south Phoenix. 
I have been waiting for the VisualTips from Skybound Software, to work better on Vista. This control adds help functionality to any Winform control as a souped up tooltip. I'm playing with this on the server registration form. Since pictures are worth a thousand words, here's a screenshot: 
This tooltip will be set to show up when you hover over the textboxes. I'm hoping that this gives a better experience to the user. This is going to make it into Beta 1, which will be out around August 1. This dialog will probably look a bit different by then as well. I'm doing a presentation on Subversion to my local .NET User Group tomorrow night. I attend the Utah County .NET User Group. I'm also their webmaster.
This is the first time I have ever spoken at a user group. Fortunately for me, I have spoken in front of people a fair amount, so I'm not nervous. I've done consultant work on and off for about 7 years, so I've had to give plenty of presentations.
This will also be a good chance to show off PainlessSVN to a group of .NET developers. The user group's site is
http://www.ucnug.org I had to remove all features related to managing repositories under Apache. It would have taken me another 6 months to get that part as stable as the stuff I have working with svnserve repositories. I know that some people will be disappointed, but I wanted to push PainlessSVN out to market sooner rather than later.
It is on the roadmap, though. I will have a better idea of what the roadmap will look like after I release the first commercial version. I'm hoping that customers use the Feedback Center to request and vote on features that they will like to see.
I started development of PainlessSVN in September of 2006. I can't believe it's been already 10 months! I just put up a zip file with this nifty text file splitting utility.
It also has a command line for those people that want to use it in batch jobs. Anyways, go to the Free Downloads to get it. | |
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