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DiskCatalog v3
 DiskCatalog is back for win32 (finally). It catalogues CDs and hard drive directories for easy access. It also has a nifty 'Find' dialog to find that lost driver file. It requires the .NET CLR runtime (version 1.0+). This version is significantly less capable (and pretty) than versions 1 or 2, but since I couldn't for the life of me get serialization working in the new java sdk I decided to hop over to .NET. At this point I'd like to rave about how easy Visual Studio .NET makes writing GUI apps. Everything is well layed-out and easy to use, not to mention the great form editor. That was the rave, so here comes the rant: the executable size is 68kb, but upon starting the CLR manages to gobble up about 10Mb worth of memory. The future of managed code looks very big indeed, but not in a good way. Some usage notes: The program uses only one catalog file 'DiskCatalog.bin', and if it doesn't find it in the directory you ran it from, it will create a blank one. This version isn't threaded, so there may be some delays when reading a new volume. Features
Three days (on/off) to build It's all badly commented. |