I see so many projects and softwares released on the internet that has a 0.x version and they never reaches 1.0. Shouldn't a first release be 1.0 (or 1.0b at least)? Example, the VLC project dated 1996-2008 now at version 0.8.6? ...
Suppose you're developing a software product that has periodic releases. What are the best practices with regard to branching and merging? Slicing off periodic release branches to the public (or whomever your customer is) and then continuing development on the trunk, or considering the trunk the stable version, tagging it as a release pe...
The situation: We're out of beta and version 1.0 has been released to several customer sites. Team A is already busy working on version 1.1 that will have incremental bugfixes and usability tweaks, while another team works on version 2.0 with large-scale changes, where the core of the product may have been completely redesigned. Now, mos...
I am writing an app in Silverlight 3 using the Application Navigation template. So each page has a Loaded event, however I don't see a Closing event or an Unloaded event. Does this concept even exist in SL3? For instance, how do I dispose of resources when this particular page closes and I navigate to another page in my app? ...
Hello, Another quick question. I'd like to release some updates for a WinForm program, but to date I have simply released an all-new compile. People have to un-install the old version and install the new version. EDIT: I'm using an auto-generated InstalWizard. It preserves my file strucutre and places the [PrimaryProgramOutput] in ...
I've been thinking if there's a way how to speed up freeing memory in .NET. I'm creating a game in .NET (only managed code) where no significant graphics is needed but still I would like to write it properly in order to not to lose performance for nothing. For example is it useful to assign null value to objects that are not longer need...
so i've been working on a website on and off for about a year now, and i'm finally at a point where it's functional enough to test out in a sort of private beta (not ready for live release). but i never thought about the correct process for doing this and what things i need to take care of. i've never released a public website before. ...
Even after successful transaction.Application connection with the database persist.in Nhibernate log it shows Nhibernate Log 2010-05-21 14:45:08,428 [Worker] [0] DEBUG NHibernate.Impl.SessionImpl [(null)] <(null)> - executing flush 2010-05-21 14:45:08,428 [Worker] [0] DEBUG NHibernate.Impl.ConnectionManager [(null)] < (null)> - r...