• Registered: 2007-05-28
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Topic: MoWeS Portable III development started really off :)

After MoWeS Portable II and Visual Basic 6 have been making many pains under vista I decided to write MoWeS Portable III completly under VB.Net 2008.
The main reasons for VB.Net 2008 and not VB6 anymore were:
- Ensure compatibility in the future (Windows 7 is coming... Vista is coming more and more)
- VB.Net has improved class coding
- Many functions can now be called directly instead of using complicated api calls
- We can finally deal with the file access permissons on NTFS file systems

And I already got a good piece of code finished. I started to rewrite the big modules with all that API stuff and some other things:
- Language class rewritten and implemented
- Control and shutdown tasks (used to terminate the server)
- Read console output from a pipe (used for the 7-Zip output)
- Hide and show windows (used to hide the apache window)
- Write and read from INI files
- and more.


Pretty good deal I think. If there are some VB.Net experts out there they could check and test the code!

Next steps will be the packages. First of all I have to create some to test the installation routine.

Regards,

Cornelius

CH Software's Website

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  • Eddy
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  • Registered: 2007-08-02
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Re: MoWeS Portable III development started really off :)

That is great news. Good luck. We are al eagerly awaiting this release (as any other).

Thank you very much for all your great effort, very much appreciated!!!

Cheers,

Eddy

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