Stephen Chambers Software Tool design: The Three Rs
by Stephen Chambers | 21 July 2008 |  1 comment |
To understand the full extent of the requirements of your users when you are redesigning a software tool, you have to talk to them, and observe how they are currently using the package. For this sort of research, there is no established rule-book, but there... Read more...
Heather Fielding Embedding Help so it will be used
by Heather Fielding | 17 July 2008 |  4 comments |
It is not good enough to make assumptions about the way that users go about getting help when they use your application. Heather Fielding describes how she was able to test the effectiveness of various different ways of providing embedded help in an application. By... Read more...
Vladimir Bodurov Dynamically generating typed objects in .NET
by Vladimir Bodurov | 14 July 2008 |  4 comments |
When you are binding Data to DataGrid in .NET, this has to be done at design-time. That's fine if you know what the form of the data is at design time: but what if you don't? Vlad Bodurov looks at some of the options and demonstrates an unusual dynamic technique... Read more...
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