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Blog moved to WordPress and new domain...

I've moved my blog to my own domain and onto a WordPress engine, CS + SPAM was driving me nuts!

Catchup posts: Oh yes, I've been in Japan for a couple of months, first 2 weeks of photos are uploaded on Flickr, I still havent had a chance to upload the thousands after.

Whats more, I've actually written some information about me so you can finally find out my sad sad way of life. See About Thushan Fernando.

HotHTML 3 Professional FixPack 5 Released!

Well I decided to take some time off (sleeping) and finalise FixPack 5 for HotHTML 3. The build number is now 3000 (epic milestone!) and mostly caused by alot of rework to make HotHTML 3 load faster, initially I intended to add a new Ftp Editor to make it easier to upload/manage websites, but due to a rewrite of the Ftp core taking longer than expected I decided to postphone it till FixPack 6.

This release is "IE 7 friendly" (atleast Beta 1, Beta 2 and builds inbetween the two) and recognizes all recent releases of Firefox & Opera also:-)

Change Log(View Text)
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BUG FIXES
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22806. DocumentData > Loading an empty document gives 'No Document Loaded' in 'DocumentData::Core Engine Runtime' which is invalid.
22805. Core > Checkboxes sometimes may raise errors in validation on some dialogs.
22804. Core > **** EXPERIMENTAL **** New fix for the crash when saving documents every now and then (rare to reproduce).
22803. IDE > VS.NET Tabs sometimes doesnt repaint after recieving the focus again.
22802. WebManager Account Manager > Selecting first item causes a save to be placed into the pending queue when it shouldnt.
22801. Tools > SpellCheck raises a fatal runtime error because it cant locate the 'custom.dic' dictionary file.

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ADDITIONS
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1.DocumentData can now have a padding of '0' (Zero) so it will ignore file-legth checking.

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CHANGES
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1. Welcome Dialog > When selecting a file from the recent list, if its not found/non-existant it will prompt and leave the dialog open.
Download HotHTML 3 FixPack 5 and have ago, use our servers (Tucows/Download.com havent been updated yet!).

(NOTE: Updates to the website to reflect FixPack 5 will happen in the next couple of days!)

Open source VB6 code (Great Collection!)

From the guy that brough you SiteSkinner Professional and ComDoc, Edwin's now released all his work as open-source on his E.V.I.C.T.(Edwin Vermeer Information Communication Technology) site.

Among the huge amount of reusable VB6 code there, heres a list...
Take a look as you'll find *something* there you can make use of!

Vista and VB6 applications... back to the days of XP and themes... nooooahhhhh!

Well after a heavy weekend of Vista messing (including Server) I tried HotHTML 3 (yes, I know... what a nut aye?)... with FixPack 4 the first thing you get after installation is the "Configuration Wizard" to show up, and thats when i noticed that the checkbox had that horrible black bar covers like XP caused when you try and use a manifest without initialising Common Controls library first...


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NOooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i yelled in disappointment. I've filed a bug but its still early days yet, MS *might* fix it otherwise we'd have to think of a work-around (after more research) to fixing it.

So in short, if your vb6 application uses a manifest/themes and it shows correctly in XP, chances are in Vista (atm) it wont.

HotHTML 3 FixPack 4 Final Released!

Well after close to three months of intense testing, I've finally gone live with FixPack 4 for HotHTML 3.

Anyone who has the pre-release betas, alphas or Release Candidates (from builds 1930-2278) you'll need to uninstall it and install the new FixPack 4 release as we're now fully switched to InstallShield 10.5 (we bought 10.5 a month before 11 debut'd but it shall do!)

Download:
http://www.wsoftware.biz/downloads/http/hothtml3/hothtml3eval.exe [ 11MB ]

ChangeLog:
http://www.wsoftware.biz/downloads/http/hothtml3/changes_1900.txt

NOTE:
Website(s)/KB's should be updated in a few hours!

Thanks to everyone who reported issues and spent time testing and messing with the fixes!

HotHTML 3 FixPack 4 Release Candidate 5 Release

Thanks to everyone who reported issues with the previous Release Candidate, I've pushed Release Candidate 5 out and is available right now for download.

Download:
http://websoftware.customer.netspace.net.au/hothtml3/beta/FixPack5_RC5.hdp [ 875KB ]

ChangeLog:
http://www.wsoftware.biz/downloads/http/hothtml3/changes_1900.txt

NOTE:
The link above is ONLY for those who installed Release Candidate 4 release. If you want to try RC5, first install FixPack 3(if not already installed), then Release Candidate 4 Update file and finally download and run the link above which will install the new version.

This is because the WebSoftware installer (the HDP file) cannot update a core component (wRegistry.dll) that was updated for FixPack 4 as its being used by the installer - I know I know! Thats why I love .NET!

HotHTML 3 FixPack 4 Release Candidate 4 Release

Well FixPack 4 for HotHTML 3 is nearing release. Unfortunately this release will not have Mozilla previewing support as I mentioned earlier as the priority for FixPack 4 changed to fixing up mutli-lingual/region issues and various other bugs.

This is an 'Update' of FixPack 3 to make it FixPack 4, and as such you need to have FixPack 3 Installed.
 
Download:
 
ChangeLog:
http://www.wsoftware.biz/downloads/http/hothtml3/changes_1900.txt
 
NOTE: You must have FixPack 3 installed for this release to update properly. There are NO UPDATED HELP FILES as they are still being written/updated.

Send feedback to developers@wsoftware.biz and we'll take care of the rest:-)

Microsoft VBRun (VB6 / VB.NET resource site on MSDN)

Microsoft have launched VBRun - VB 6 Resource site - at MSDN. Take a look here. This i guess means they'll keep making articles on "Classic VB" instead of just .NET as they have been doing in teh past.