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Is there any good alternative to ASpell? It's nice open source, but haven't been updated for a while. The performance is not too good and I am having trouble creating a custom worklist with non-alpha characters.
Started by Jon on
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I switched to aspell for....
I don't know how it compares to Hunspell.
There is also Ispell , might not be faster or better maintained, but it supports international characters .
Check out Hunspell.
It's what Firefox uses for its spellchecker.
Hunspell.
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I need to draw a big and complicated diagram in word document. I found the last version of visio to be unreliable and unusable - when I copy-paste a block it destroys the other linked content etc. Is there any good alternative to Visio?
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The built-in Windows Search tool will apparently not search within PHP files. I cannot find the files named *.php containing text "some_function_name" that I know are there.
"Search is complete. There are no results to display."
What's a good alternative...
Started by Zack Peterson on
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Same functionality.
Copernic Desktop Search is good.
To "Index Properties and File Contents".
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Found out that llblgen costs money which I cannot afford at the time since I am on a Non-Paid internship atm. Do you guys know of a comparable alternative to llblgen. I am trying to get a good Code generator for making sql queries.
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Presumeably if you're mentioning LLBLGen, you're a .NET user - do you have access to Visual Studio? You can always use T4 - the code generator built... .
All 100% free.
What platform? NHibernate, LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework come to mind for .NET .
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I find the xml doc comments for C# or VB.NET very hard to read. Is there a decent alternative (that still provides the benefits of documenting code for intellisense, doc generation, etc.)?
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You....
I started with the one referenced in this old post and modified from there .
Reading XML is making your eyes wobble, which it does mine) you could add a stylesheet to the xml comments file .
If readability is the problem you're trying to solve (i.e .
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Since iTunes is so dog-slow on Windows, I'm looking for a good alternative that manages podcasts well. Bonus for syncing play counts, ratings, etc.
Edit: I'm not looking for a podcast-only app, I'm looking for a music manager that does well with podcasts...
Started by Aidan Ryan on
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It can handle your music collection management....
It made me buy a Zune!
MediaMonkey rocks.
Well I really like the Zune software ...
Not only will it manage your local music, but it is very nice for finding music on the internet .
You might check out Songbird.
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Any good alternative written in C to replace Boost.Program_options? Given it's able to parse:
Short options like -h Long options like --help --input-file Parse repeated keys/options Accepts key-value pairs: --mysql=/usr/lib Parsing environmental variables...
Started by Viet on
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None of them parses environment variables of XML/INI files, but those two don't really belong with command-... .
Both the links I posted have examples.
POSIX has getopt , glibc adds getopt_long.
If you are okay with the GPL license, you want GNU getopt .
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We have been using GenuineChannels in our product for the last 4 years. GenuineChannels now appears to have become unsupported and the main developer guy Dmitri has I think joined Microsoft. I have the source as part of the product but not the networking...
Started by gwyn on
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Http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework....
A lot of other nice stuff there, too...
WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) is the way to go - much more scalable, easily swappable to other technologies (if you need in the future), and builtin to .NET 3.0 .
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I have a windows mobile phone (non touch screen), and was wondering what alternative web browsers exist for this platform?
IE seems slow, and does not do a great job of displaying pages on a small screen.
I tried to install Opera mini, but it downloaded...
Started by Tester101 on
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I've had memory issues.
Iris , which uses WebKit.
Http://www.opera.com/mobile/
Opera has to be one of the most popular alternative web browsers out good software to use in mobile phones.
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Hi.
I'm currently using shared memory for IPC between Java and C++ apps, but looking for a more convenient alternative.
Can someone advice better method, but with same performance speed?
Thanks!
Started by SyRenity on
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There are very good open source CORBA ORBs out.
They are very easy to use (once you have the bindings), and have good performance written in different languages is IMHO CORBA .
Message queues.
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