Jeremy Kuhne's Blog

Here's the first of many posts to come out of what I've learned and experienced attempting to automate Acrylic. As mentioned before and elsewhere, Microsoft acquired Creature House a few years ago. With this acquisition came the creative design toolset...

[7/20/05: Added an additional comment regarding setting up for Win32] I've mentioned in my earlier posts just how nice Managed C++ in 2005 (C++/CLI) is when it comes to interoping with unmanaged code. It makes P/Invoke downright painful by comparison...

[7/20/05: Additional comment added for Marshal::GetFunctionPointerForDelegate()] There are some instances where Win32 requires a callback function pointer. This frequently comes up in Enumeration APIs, such as EnumWindows. In this post we’ll look at...

[updated 1/31/06 to use new blog photo gallery] Greetings from within Microsoft! I'm excited to let you know that we've just released the beta for Acrylic, an application for professional graphic designers. Please go take a look, download, and send...

Ok, so I really was chomping at the bit to blog. Now that we've gone beta I can get a lot of things off of my chest. Just too awkward to blog much before the product was announced, you know? In this post I'm going to give a bit of info on how to write...

I had very little experience in C++ when I sat down and tried my hand at using Managed C++ in Whidbey last fall (C++/CLI). Documentation was a bit more sparse back then and I found a few things a little difficult to figure out. I've looked again and I...

I just read C++ vs. C# and thought it might be worthwhile to throw up a few thoughts. I've been ranting and raving about how great the new Managed C++ (C++/CLI) is. It's true, it is great, but I still prefer to do most of my work in C#. Why? C#...