Category Archives: VncSharp

VncSharp 1.0 Released

By david.humphrey | Published: January 10, 2009
It’s done.  After a seven year on-again off-again relationship with this code, I’m pleased to announce that VncSharp has reached version 1.0.  I have told myself many times that “this is the last time I’m updating this” and for some reason I always come back.  Actually, the reason is always the same: someone sends me [...]
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Taking it over the line

By david.humphrey | Published: December 9, 2008
One of the central defining characteristics of software, any software, is that it is unfinished.  This is a point most easily understood in the context of open source software, where being half-dressed is easier to see because the curtains aren’t drawn.  It’s not a criticism.  It’s what software is. This is what software is, but what [...]
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VNC# in Algeria; VNC# needs a maintainer

By david.humphrey | Published: May 4, 2008
I got a great email from Ali Abbassene about VNC#: I’m using VncSharp in an eHealthCare Application, in my countrie Algeria, to implement a videoconferencing remote datashow displayer used to diffuse medical conferences from one hospital in the capital Algeirs to an other one in Ouargla an isolated District in the Algerian Sahara. We make a remote [...]
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Passwords in VNC#

By david.humphrey | Published: May 18, 2007
I get a fair bit of mail from people asking how to do their own password dialogs/functions in VNC#. I wrap the password function in a delegate of type AuthenticateDelegate, which takes no arguments and returns a string (i.e., the password). By default I stuff a call to a function that creates and [...]
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VNC# 0.9.0 Released

By david.humphrey | Published: May 16, 2007
I rolled a bunch of bug fixes and patches from people into a 0.9.0 release for VNC#. Some interesting work being done by folks all over the world with the code–thanks for your emails. It’s nice to read about all the ways people are using it. I’m not actively working on [...]
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Definition: Last Mile

By david.humphrey | Published: November 11, 2006
Last Mile: The last mile is the final leg of delivering connectivity from a communications provider to a customer… David Humphrey’s house My wife and I moved our family out to the country, and it’s amazing (I’ll blog about the wildlife sometime).  I couldn’t love it more, except for one small but not insignificant point: the Internet is [...]
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