<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="2.0"><channel><title>WinCustomize Forums » RSS Feed » Software Development Posts</title><link>https://feeds.feedburner.com/Stardock/Wincustomize/forum/8</link><copyright>© 2006 - 2026 Stardock Corporation. All rights reserved.</copyright><description>Recent Posts In Software Development</description><language>en-us</language><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:15:17 AM -0400</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:15:17 AM -0400</lastBuildDate><docs>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html</docs><generator>Stardock Rss Generator v1.0</generator><managingEditor>info@stardock.com</managingEditor><webMaster>kwilas@stardock.com</webMaster><item><author>Leo the Lion</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/480662</comments><description><![CDATA[Read about it here............ https://forums.malwarebytes.org/topic/190369-announcing-beta-of-malwarebytes-30-a-next-generation-antivirus-replacement/   Discussion on Neowin here........... https://www.neowin.net/news/malwarebytes-30-will-finally-replace-your-traditional-antivirus   A lot of you most probably use this program, like me..........and I thought it may interest you too.  &nbsp;      ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/480662</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/480662</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2016 7:39:55 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2016-11-19T19:39:55-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Malwarebytes 3..............Next-Generation Antivirus Replacement</title></item><item><author>Leo the Lion</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/480029</comments><description><![CDATA[Click on the link and you&#39;ll see a brief preview........Looks cool&nbsp;     ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/480029</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/480029</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2016 8:50:53 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2016-10-16T20:50:53-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Here's a first look at Microsoft's new Paint app for Windows 10</title></item><item><author>Leo the Lion</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/474188</comments><description><![CDATA[ http://www.ghacks.net/2015/12/19/winamp-vivendi-becomes-major-radionomy-stakeholder/   We can only hope..............Best all time IMHO.  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/474188</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/474188</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2016 3:57:03 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2016-01-05T03:57:03-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Winamp on its way back????</title></item><item><author>Leo the Lion</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/453565</comments><description><![CDATA[Yep, available today..........by all accounts this is a biggy for Windows Phone users...........of which I am one!  Read what others are saying here................. http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-phone-81-preview-for-developers-now-available   Not sure whether to take the plunge now or wait for the final version. Some of the updates and Cortana sound real cool!  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/453565</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/453565</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2014 7:37:17 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2014-04-15T07:37:17-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Windows Phone 8.1 ‘Preview for Developers' now available</title></item><item><author>Captain Xarzu</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/435715</comments><description><![CDATA[I have issues with the C# WebBrowser class  I have a C# WPF application which uses a WebBrowser class.&nbsp; I have overwritten the LoadComplete method.&nbsp; The question I have is this.&nbsp; This method is supposed to be triggered when the class has completed a load, but , when I put a breakpoint on this method, it is called before the class visually has compleded a load.&nbsp; Because of this, the htmldata is not complete.&nbsp; Any ideas?  &nbsp;  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/435715</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/435715</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 8:06:00 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-11-01T20:06:00-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>I have issues with the C# WebBrowser class</title></item><item><author>Sagecat</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/421167</comments><description><![CDATA[Any chance we&#39;ll see a Star Control on Kick Starter?  &nbsp;If there was ever a game I&#39;d fund with some serious money, it would be a true sequel to Star Control 2.  &nbsp;Thanks!&nbsp;  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/421167</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/421167</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 7:40:46 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-04-04T19:40:46-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Star Control Kick Starter?</title></item><item><author>madman22</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/353455</comments><description><![CDATA[Alright, i pretty much finished my site.  Its built with an AJAX driven directory listing. &nbsp;I then use flash External interface to tell flash to add a song to the playlist.  All this is done without leaving the current page, no refreshing or anything. &nbsp;This way, you can browse all music without the flash player reseting.   What I've done so far:   Created Template using Photoshop and lots of Alpha channels in pngs  Made template to work in html  Converted html site to php s...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/353455</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/353455</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 6:33:55 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-10-19T06:33:55-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>AJAX + Flash = dynamic playlist music player</title></item><item><author>Adam Najmanowicz</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/136426</comments><description><![CDATA[If you're not interested in the techincal details but rather just want the working program,  You can just get it HERE   A friend of mine has recently asked if it's possible to write a console .net application to make a thumbnail of a website. The task is pretty trivial with Windows forms actually. But him being the Linux guy and all... I decided to pick up the challenge    An interesting use case. In winForms all you really need to do is drop a WebBrowser on your form and once it's loaded th...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/136426</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/136426</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 3:42:43 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2010-07-10T15:42:43-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>How to get Web Site Thumbnail in C#</title></item><item><author>madman22</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/347185</comments><description><![CDATA[After finding out my new classes, i realized i will have plenty of time to start work on a new project.&nbsp; I have decided to create a new website for myself.&nbsp; I have been hosting a website on my home computer for a long time now, and the current edition is not only old and ugly, but non browser safe.&nbsp; I use my website to host all of my music so i&nbsp;can listen to it while at school (or anywhere).  The current edition uses a customized QuiXplorer to list all of the music i have.&...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/347185</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/347185</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 5:29:30 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2010-01-18T17:29:30-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>my next project</title></item><item><author>MindTooth</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/373366</comments><description><![CDATA[I guess not many take interest in the battle between DirectX and OpenGL. Some might, and for me it is part that it is cross-platform that makes it most attractive, pluss the openness of the API.  If you are of the ones interested, please read the link.  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/373366</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/373366</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 6:15:30 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2010-01-09T06:15:30-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Maybe OpenGL isn't that bad after all?</title></item><item><author>TeamRoa</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/356899</comments><description><![CDATA[ Well, I have been around here and there for a while working on different projects but the main project I was working on was a small game called Project X. If you guys have read what I wrote before about Little TImmy's Bedtime Adventures then you would know that I was working on a Mid-Term project. I thought that my group was going to create LTBA but as things turned out we created something different. The project was called Project X as you read just before and at the end of the development we ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/356899</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/356899</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 1:44:07 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2009-06-23T13:44:07-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Project X</title></item><item><author>Cynicide</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/347975</comments><description><![CDATA[Over the weekend I did battle with a hulking thorny behemoth.&nbsp; However it wasn&rsquo;t in any computer game, it was the blackberry bush that has taken root behind the BBQ in my backyard.&nbsp; Because I am renting my home it&rsquo;s my responsibility to maintain the garden, something which I loathe.&nbsp; You can imagine my joy when I noticed thorny tendrils sprouting from my garden in an attempt to cover the planet not unlike The Red Weed in &quot;The War of the Worlds&quot;.    So armed...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/347975</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/347975</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 1:13:42 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2009-04-20T13:13:42-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>You have become better at Gardening (450)</title></item><item><author>madman22</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/346876</comments><description><![CDATA[crazy idea # 1:   Ray-traced desktop environment:   Would look similar to todays environments, but ray traced. &nbsp;This would include total control of camera and light source placement, intensity, and direction. &nbsp;Could do on the fly camera movements to simulate multiple work spaces. &nbsp;Could possibly create a system for caching the dynamic look into a static image to cut down on performance issues with real time ray tracing. &nbsp;Benifits include: improved eye candy, scalability....]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/346876</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/346876</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 6:55:09 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2009-04-16T18:55:09-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>some crazy ideas for projects</title></item><item><author>madman22</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/345496</comments><description><![CDATA[So i got an idea in class a while ago and thought it would be a good learning experience.&nbsp; Completely useless, but fun to stare at.  what it does:  takes a picture (jpg format), then makes it look wavy using a sin wave.  It started out pretty easy until i realized that using GetPixel and SetPixel is slow as balls.&nbsp; The alternative was editing memory directly    btw, if anyone knows how to edit a picture using pointers vertically instead of horizonatally, please let me know.&nbs...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/345496</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/345496</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 1:28:46 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2009-04-08T01:28:46-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>My useless image manipulation program</title></item><item><author>Leo the Lion</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/337061</comments><description><![CDATA[One of the most popular anti-spyware applications - Ad-Aware - gets a major update tommorrow. Pop along to the Lavasoft website LINK ABOVE, and get the latest version. Here's some info from Lavasoft on the latest version:-   After a decade of listening to your core security wants and needs, we know that, as a computer user, you&rsquo;re looking for faster and lighter products, while still providing the absolute best protection. And that is just what we are delivering in our upcoming release: A...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/337061</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/337061</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 5:42:40 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2009-01-20T05:42:40-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>New version of Ad-Aware out tommorow</title></item><item><author>Shirley</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/326818</comments><description><![CDATA[For those who haven't used it yet, Ubiquity is a firefox extension that takes advantage of several web services to improve productivity in a huge way.&nbsp; Best to watch the video to truely understand it:                 Ubiquity for Firefox  from  Aza Raskin  on  Vimeo .  I've been using Ubiquity for some time now and decided it was time to dust off my programming skills and do something with it.&nbsp; My original idea was to just write a plugin to search the WinCustomize gallery, but a c...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/326818</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/326818</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 4:06:23 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-10-11T04:06:23-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Stardock Ubiquity Commands</title></item><item><author>sublime187</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/325099</comments><description><![CDATA[   I cant begin to tell you how great the beta is!! The guys at Westwood/EA in Cali have done it again!The CnC series has always been a family favorite.......Command and Conquer 3 just about  blew up the set with thier RTS engine and set a standard for all next gen RTS games its playability and  the use of hollywood skills as far as acting goes for the cutscenes was a much needed and really great compliment to the series itself...Its up to par with World of Warcraft and now with Red Alert 3 it s...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/325099</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/325099</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 4:53:11 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-09-19T16:53:11-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>I just cant wait!!!!</title></item><item><author>Draginol</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/88</comments><description><![CDATA[Hi everyone, great to see you all. Man, lot of familiar faces here. I brought my friend Norm with me. He's really into games and has always wanted to be in the game industry. Norm, feel free to look around..   Norm:  Thanks bud! You don't&nbsp;mind if I bum around and ask some of these guys about themselves? No? Great! Everyone around the table, introduce yourselves!   Chris:  My name is Chris, I'm 34, I now do technical support at a local ISP making $30,000. I spent most of my youth becoming ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/88</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/88</link><pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:55:10 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-08-30T12:55:10</pubDateParsed><title>Game Developer's Class Reunion</title></item><item><author>andrew_</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/322441</comments><description><![CDATA[Every day I spend a little time (aka. lunch) and tinker around with side projects or questions that I've raised to myself while browsing the net, or thinking about ideas for the apps I would like to write, that I have already written, or that I wrote and sent to the graveyard. Lately I've been toying with Html Parsing and came upon something I've not yet dealt with much with web development: css selectors. Css selectors are a really neat method of selecting nodes/elements in an html document bas...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/322441</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/322441</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 5:00:25 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-08-28T17:00:25-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Css Selectors To XPath</title></item><item><author>Timesheep</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/320634</comments><description><![CDATA[  Welcome to Tutland.    As this is my first tutorial on this kinda new blog, im gonna introduce you to how this works. Every Article cointains a part of a tutorial. You can simply find through this as the name of the tutorial is the title and the part is the subtitle.  That means that when you are finished reading this part and want to go on, go find Batch programming for beginners Part 2. Which i dont have a name for yet.  Well lets begin.  First of this tutorial is for newcomers so i...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/320634</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/320634</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 5:43:14 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-08-08T17:43:14-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Batch programming for beginners</title></item><item><author>Mudflap</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/319329</comments><description><![CDATA[Hey, I'd like to welcome myself back to the Stardock community. I've been doing a lot of things in the last 5 years, and I think I'm in a position now that really allows me to express my new ideas and random thoughts. I'll try to keep this blog as random as possible with small tidbits of information in each post. That way, you won't miss anything in my saga.  &nbsp;  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/319329</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/319329</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 4:00:56 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-07-26T16:00:56-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>I'm back</title></item><item><author>Mudflap</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/4827</comments><description><![CDATA[More Monkey Business....  I spent today doing some more RenderMonkey evaluation. Overall, I'd love to use RenderMonkey, but it's got one problem. It can't properly map our models.     I know, it sounds like it's a problem with our model. Our model works fine in EffectEdit though. I've sent them a &quot;bug&quot; report. We'll have to see when it comes back. I think I can still use it to prototype some effects, but to preview it GalCiv2, I'll have to export it so that I can read it in EffectE...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/4827</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/4827</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 7:49:13 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-07-26T07:49:13-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>More Monkey Business</title></item><item><author>qrush</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/312951</comments><description><![CDATA[So yeah, this is pretty much what I've been up to for the past, oh, 3 months/1 quarter of school. These are a few of the projects I've done for my Computer Graphics 2 class (which I just got an A in, booyah!)  First up, the classic CG application,  a ray tracer  complete with  phongphongphong  shading, procedural shading on the floor, reflection, transmission, and even some tone reproduction.       Secondly, my quarter long personal project, a simple particle system/b-spline curve generator ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/312951</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/312951</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 1:16:21 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-05-23T01:16:21-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Raytracers, snowflakes, and Pac-Man, oh my!</title></item><item><author>andrew_</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/308527</comments><description><![CDATA[During my quest to add more features to the forums on the Stardock Network of websites, I came upon the need for a decent DateTimePicker control for ASP.NET. I tested out several javascript generated datetime pickers/choosers and just wasnt happy with what I found. Aside from the code-style of the js, or the dependancy on some framework, none of them were wrapped up nicely in a server control I could re-use easily.  My solution? Write my own. It took me about a day to put together some easy to...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/308527</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/308527</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 9:05:50 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-04-18T09:05:50-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Javascript: Date to Ticks</title></item><item><author>qrush</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/303318</comments><description><![CDATA[I could say this about WPF as a whole, but when things actually workwith WPF it's so damn smooth I can't help but feel somewhataccomplished. Nevertheless, I had a real pain trying to get an embeddedflash player into my WPF app. Why Flash? Why not...dare I say,Silverlight? Well, I'm building a small app that plays YouTube videos,so obviously Flash makes sense. First, here's some lessons I learnedwhile on this wonderfully frustrating journey:      For this instance, the WebBrowser control blows....]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/303318</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/303318</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:53:20 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-03-09T12:53:20</pubDateParsed><title>Flash and WPF: A pain in the ass.</title></item></channel></rss>