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Regarding Demo Binaries and Library Packing
You may have noticed that we’re currently shipping the demonstration binaries for libraries since around 2021. They represent a small demonstration application that tests the library functionality visually in contexts where the unit tests are not enough. However, we have bad news regarding these binaries. A lot of libraries we’ve seen published on GitHub are…
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Terminaux 3.0 Announcement
Terminaux was first released in August of 2023 to combine all the existing terminal libraries into one. As a result, Terminaux was used by a bunch of console applications, such as Nitrocid KS. Terminaux has been updated several times to the point that version 2.0 manifested, with new and improved features already on the way…
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Source Link for all libraries
In the past, our libraries didn’t support Source Link, so debugging them was very difficult without having to manually decompile them. Once decompiled, you can’t set breakpoints inside them because they don’t come from the original source. Source Link allows your libraries to have source code information easily embedded inside the library assemblies in a…
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Inxi.NET and Uname.NET End of Life
Inxi.NET was released in the last quarter of 2020 as a library that used to be a wrapper to the Inxi application to get hardware information. Initially, it only supported Linux systems, but we’ve added Windows support with it to satisfy the Windows users. Inxi.NET gained several new features, including the performance improvements and a…
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BassBoom! Announcement
When we discovered that there were actually no working C# managed cross-platform libraries that can deal with MP3 files and play them, we came up with a solution that’s going to excite all of you. For instance, NAudio can only play music files on Windows systems, while it’s basically useless as a music player on…
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Regarding Assembly Signing for our libraries
We have started signing our assemblies, with Nitrocid KS and Terminaux being the first two assemblies to be signed using the signing key that’s available for all our open-source projects. This signing key was made exclusively for our .NET projects. However, it looks like we didn’t sign the remaining apps and libraries. Starting September 13th,…
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Obsoleting Extensification
Extensification was released in 2020 to aid in making otherwise complicated methods a simple thing to do. It was initially intended for Nitrocid KS (Kernel Simulator at the time), but later extended to some of our projects. It was because we were using Visual Basic at the time, which was known for its limited development.…
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Re-targeting libraries
We used to make libraries that target .NET Standard 2.1 and .NET Framework 4.8 as minimum requirements since most of our libraries came from the source code of Kernel Simulator. Over time, new libraries get released, targeting the .NET Standard 2.0 framework to provide support for the widest range of .NET versions possible. Unfortunately, one…
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TermRead released!
ReadLine.Reboot was released around June 2022 as a project to catch up where the original lead developer of the original ReadLine library for .NET, Toni Solarin-Sodara, after several forks. These, however, have failed to finish the project with the complete implementation, such as in the case of Latency’s fork, which attempted – and failed –…
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Color Blindness in ColorSeq
ColorSeq version 1.1 is released to support color blindness during the generation of the color sequences and various improvements in several areas of generation. This version of ColorSeq offers color blindness simulation using the 1997 formula made by Hans Brettel, Françoise Viénot, and John D. Mollon. So, seeing as more and more programs are getting…
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Ending support for ReadLine.Reboot
We have introduced you to ReadLine.Reboot back in June when we’re trying to expand the base library, ReadLine, after it got abandoned by Toni Solarin-Sodara in 2018. Since then, we have made claims that this reboot will keep being developed through its lifetime. Sadly, we have made our final decision regarding this project, and what…
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Truth about Latency’s ReadLine and its critical bug
ReadLine was originally made by Toni Solarin-Sodara in 2017 to be a GNU Readline-like library built for .NET Framework and modern .NET, like .NET 6.0 at the time of writing. It had several releases before officially abandoning it in 2018. Since then, various forks tried to improve the library with new features, performance improvements, and…
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VisualCard Announcement
There are VCard parsers available for all the programming languages of your choice; like VObject, a Python implementation; ez-vcard, a Java implementation; and MixERP.Net.VCards, a .NET implementation. They are useful for getting information from the VCards and saving them to the VCard file in your contact application. However, we are announcing our solution for parsing…
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Announcing Uname.NET
In 2020, we’ve released Inxi.NET as a .NET library to get hardware information from your computer. Initially, it was only available in Linux systems with Inxi installed. Over time, it got many improvements from the support of Windows and macOS systems to added hardware types. However, we’re announcing another library… Uname.NET Uname.NET is a sister…
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ReadLine.Reboot vs. ReadLine vs. Latency’s ReadLine
Since we have released ReadLine.Reboot over a week ago, we have run a complete comparison between the original ReadLine made by tonerdo, the “enhanced” version of ReadLine made by Latency, and our reboot of the project, ReadLine.Reboot. Let’s start by comparing the existing implementation of the features that are common to the three versions. Implemented…
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The First Look of ReadLine.Reboot
ReadLine ReadLine was a library made by Toni Solarin-Sodara in 2017 that assists you in using the more flexible version of Console.ReadLine() available in all versions of .NET. However, it was abandoned in 2018 as version 2.0.1 according to NuGet. Various people tried to make a fork out of the base library, but each fork…
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