Why Integrated Tests? One of the biggest goals I had in the development of the latest version of FlexiDesign was to ramp up the number of automated tests that run as part of our build system. An...
http://ossandcad.blogspot.com/2012/03/lesson-2-integratedtests.html
Problem Using TortoiseSVN's 'Edit Conflicts' on conflicts in DOCX files, used to throw up a message box with a text similar to: > Windows Script Host: Can't find a script engine "java...
http://ossandcad.blogspot.com/2012/03/solution-for-windows-scripting-host.html
For the better part of this year, 2011, I was involved in the commercial release of a novel 2D to 3D conversion software, FlexiDesign. During the development, test and release to manufacturing (...
http://ossandcad.blogspot.com/2011/11/lesson-1-licensing-is-part-of-software.html
If you have been following my blog I apologize for not posting for so long. My last post was in Nov 2010. If you were wondering where I disappeared to, rest assured I have a valid reason. I hav...
http://ossandcad.blogspot.com/2011/09/back-after-long-break.html
Have you heard that the CeeFIT website is back up and running? Well it came back up a few months ago. Thank Heavens. But the author kindly pointed out to me that I was not complying with the ori...
http://ossandcad.blogspot.com/2010/11/new-license-for-my-swxbatchceefit.html
We all know of Continuous Integration and the importance of having really fast builds, especially on a central build server. If not read up on http://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegrat...
http://ossandcad.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-continuous-integration-build-is-too.html
In my last post SolidWorks Hole Size and Extended ASCII codes I had mentioned that I needed to input the 'PHI' symbol when creating a Wizard Simple Hole in SolidWorks using the SolidWorks API f...
http://ossandcad.blogspot.com/2010/08/will-real-phi-symbol-please-stand-up.html
If you have tried to create a WizardHole of type "Simple Wizard Hole" using C++ API (not .NET but native C++) then you surely have run into this problem: "How to specify the size of the hole?" S...
http://ossandcad.blogspot.com/2010/07/solidworks-hole-size-and-extended-ascii.html
If you read my previous post (http://ossandcad.blogspot.com/2010/04/googles-new-look.html) and found it "new" then I guess we both are late to the game. Search Engine Land already reported this ...
http://ossandcad.blogspot.com/2010/04/googles-new-look-is-actually-jazz.html
Sorry if this post is not relevant to my regular topics but I just couldn't resist. Is this Google's new look? Or is this some experiment that they are running that I am seeing? On a more...
I first noticed on Sep 24th that the web-site that hosts the C++ implementation of FIT (CEEFIT) was gone. I get a "DNS Error. Cannot find server" error for the URL http://ceefit.woldrich.com/ ....
http://ossandcad.blogspot.com/2009/10/ceefit-i-miss-you.html
I recently had to re-install SolidWorks 2009 on my laptop. During the uninstall process I noticed that several of my programs in the "C:Program Files" folder went missing. Now I am not the one to...
http://ossandcad.blogspot.com/2009/10/did-uninstalling-solidworks-delete-half.html
This post is more of a response to a comment I received on my previous post titled And the World's Oldest Source Code Repository is... . Since the commenter chose to remain anonymous, I had no w...
http://ossandcad.blogspot.com/2009/10/who-uses-brl-cad-anonymous-answer.html
Many years ago (actually in 2006), I had written about an Open Source CAD program known as BRL-CAD (note: the links to tutorials I had included in that post are no longer active and give a messa...
http://ossandcad.blogspot.com/2009/09/and-worlds-oldest-source-code.html
A few months ago I received a comment on one of my posts , asking me which free 3D CAD program I would suggest. You can see my response here . Answering JOE's (the commenter) request reminded m...
http://ossandcad.blogspot.com/2009/08/which-free-3d-cad-program-would-i.html
If you have read any of my previous posts on Testing CAD Plugins, then you are aware of what I am trying to accomplish - an automated Integrated Test framework to test, at the very least, SolidWo...
http://ossandcad.blogspot.com/2009/07/swx-batch-mode-integrated-tests-with.html
First, thanks to everyone who downloaded the workspaces that I had uploaded to this blog (using http://www.box.net ). I hope you found them useful. Previously you could only find the uploaded w...
http://ossandcad.blogspot.com/2009/07/new-my-downloads-section.html
Thanks to all of you who have downloaded the various zips from my blog. I was using www.box.net to store and share my files. While box.net was sufficient, it was getting difficult to track usage...
http://ossandcad.blogspot.com/2009/07/new-google-code-project-to-accompany.html
In one of previous posts titled "License needed to run my Pro/Toolkit add-ins" I received a comment requesting help using protk_unclock.exe to unlock the Pro/TK application provided in the same ...
http://ossandcad.blogspot.com/2009/05/unlocking-protk-applications-blog.html
If you follow my blog, you know that I develop CAD plug-ins in both .NET and C++. And in various posts of mine I have written about the difficulty of writing unit tests for these CAD plug-ins. Th...
http://ossandcad.blogspot.com/2009/04/mbunit-autocad-unit-testing-for-cad.html
Two SWX API to rule them (or is it 'Two SWX API to confuse us'?) Did you know that SolidWorks (SWX) provides two distinct (yet confusingly similar) interfaces to 'get' or 'set' arrays through i...
http://ossandcad.blogspot.com/2009/03/solidworks-api-in-process-or-global.html
FIT / CEEFIT? If you need to write integrated tests that can take a table specifying input data and expected output data, and run the tests in a batch, then you should consider Fit: Framework f...
http://ossandcad.blogspot.com/2009/02/writing-ceefit-class-like-regular-c.html
A while back I had to write an add-in to Microsoft Office 2003 for a client and ran into numerous issues during both the development and the deployment of the add-in. Thought I should post it her...
http://ossandcad.blogspot.com/2008/10/office-2003-addin-using-visual-studio.html
I received a comment on an older post of mine HOWTO: Example Pro/Toolkit Application using Visual Studio 2005 from Hans who mentioned that he was unable to run my Pro/Toolkit add-in that was att...
http://ossandcad.blogspot.com/2008/09/license-needed-to-run-my-protoolkit-add.html
In one of my previous posts HOWTO: Example Pro/Toolkit Application using Visual Studio 2005 I described how to create PROTK.DAT files necessary to enable Pro/Engineer to discover your Pro/Toolki...
http://ossandcad.blogspot.com/2008/07/protoolkit-add-in-registration.html