My team has been using Flutter for cross platform mobile development and they are very happy with it. Flutter uses Dart as the language, which is not that different from c#.

Terminology is pretty simple: Check-out to start working on a file; check-in to send files that are checked out into the main repository; Rollback to undo a check-in; Undo to undo a check-out (revert changes). You have a command line, an integration with the file system or the visual studio integration (the best option, where things are pretty clear). It is much simpler than any other system, it's user interface in Visual Studio is very simple and straightforward - I teach it to newbies in 5 minutes.

I use Twistpad [^]all the time. It is beautifull, light, fast and full of features.

I don't think they keep your windows password. You have a password for the LogMeIn service and then you have to input your Windows Username and Password every time you connect to a computer using LogMeIn. This is what happens for the LogMeInPro, I don't know about other services.

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64-bit editions of Windows Vista require iTunes 7.6 or later http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1426[^] Also: "iTunes is currently not supported in Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. Features may or may not work correctly. One example is reading or writing to an optical drive (CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-RW). It's also possible iTunes for Windows may not successfully install."

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The sad state of things e that if it wasn't MS, it would be some other company or person that would then use it to make a lot of undeserved money.

My response is in no way holistic. Its my feeling - as I am in a user forum, I am not writing a scientific article. I think it is no hidden secret that knowing what goes on behind the scenes enables you to design better solutions, be more innovative and make less errors - in general. This applies to any field of knowledge - from mechanics to cooking - and I think it applies to programming. I do not relate to any timeframe as "those were the days". I am not in favor of any low level language. In fact, my favorite programming language is Visual Basic - it's a different programming paradigm (at leats it was, before .Net). Real world examples is what you can observe everyday. People taking the wrong approach because they lack the basis for a good, informed, decision. I guess this is not an illusion. Anyway, I think you totally misunderstood my response to westicle. I was writing a response from the point of view of someone that never took a course in programming and is totaly self taught. I told him what I think is the basic for any programmer: basic boolean logic, knowing what is going on in the computer mainboard for a program to run. You can get this basic knowledge in hours and save years of bad practices. Furthermore, I told him that turning off the IDE features is just crazy because we are not in the 80's and we need intellisense - we have millions of instructions we use/need.

1. Yes. You are missing a lot of information that would enable you to code better, be more productive, deliver a better and less buggy product. 2. There is no gain in turning off Intellisense. Who has to know a million instructions from the top of the head? Working with Java or .Net is not the same as working with an 80 instructions language from 20 years ago. What you need is basic understanding of how a computer works and what goes on behind the "magic" of high level languages. You need to understand binary math in order to understand what is behind a conditional instruction in your current language. You need to understand what a pointer is, so you know what is going on when you pass a parameter by reference or by value or what happens when you do a "a=b".

Interesting ideas. Thanks for your response. In fact, I am working on the travel industry and that's exactly my scenario. I never had the idea of creating programmable entity classes due to the amount of code needed for otherwise small tasks, but it sounds like a good idea, if we can make them automatically from XML/XSD. A tool such as yours would be great asset. It's a shame I am still using plain VB6 for some older products. JP

SO how do you work with multiple etherogeneous xml sources from external suppliers or customers where you want to cherry pick information from? Would you have to recreate all their object/data models? I can do that with standard WebServices (VS does that for me), but the majority of them have plain xml interfaces (no automatic object model creation). We currently deal with it using XML Api. Previously we used to use xsl, but xsl syntax is too dense, making it dificult for other people to analyse. JP

MY main interest is the possibility of dealing with XML directly in code, instead of having to deal with strings and XML api's. The rest seems a bit odd - like SQL but not exactly :confused: JP

Just to complement the information, there is a FREE Open Source File comparison tool called WinMerge: http://winmerge.org/[^] It is a very active project with constant improvements. (project at http://sourceforge.net/projects/winmerge/[^]) It does everything I ever needed: file comparison and merging, directory comparison and merging, colour coding, zip (7zip support) or compressed folder comparison, VSS integration, etc. The user interface rocks - it is extremely easy to learn. JP

For a Source control *redux*, I would surely recommend VSS. It's installation is just point and click, and it is integrated with all the MS tools right out of the box. You don't need to read any help files or manuals. *It just works.* I have been working with it since 1995 and never had any troubles, except for a corrupted hard drive (but that's what backups are for, right?). It has all the basic things in it, except for the more advanced stuff, like automatic merging of versions (anyway, I like to do it manually) or product (as in multiple projects) version and release management. I think the fact that it hasn't changed much for the last 10 years speaks for its usability and robustness. That fact, together with massive use (it is too easy to setup and use) accounts for "all" the criticism. JP

If Mono is open source, you can fix what is not working for you. That's the purpose of Open Source, me thinks. If everybody waits for somebody to do it we'll never get there.