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Windows Programming, pt. 2

God I hate designing user interfaces. I'm working on myWorkTimer 1.1 (I don't know why, I'm probably the only person using it), which will feature the following (and maybe more):

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Google App Engine

This thing is pretty cool, although I hate Python. The indentation makes me crazy.

And Notepad++ insisting to use tabs instead of spaces didn't exactly help.

I wish this thing would use Ruby or PHP instead.

myWorkTimer 1.0

Main Interface.myTotallyAwesome Windows application is out. Download it from here. Basically it's a simple work timer.

...Yeah. I made it with C# mainly for my own usage (but hey, might aswell do something with my web space). It uses the .NET Framework 3.5 and saves all data to an SQLite database (using this). Also includes a help file: that's an interesting story; I initially made it with the trial version of WinCHM (what an horrible program) and then removed the red WinCHM nag text with another trial version of a CHM editor I should have used in the first place.

Confusing. Anyways, check it out.

My adventures in Windows Programming: Part one

 I need to make a wizard. I'm using C# (yeah yeah, shoot me) with Visual Studio 2008. I expect that there's a bundled form template for a wizard or something, made by the Satan (Microsoft) itself, but there isn't. I'm screwed.

Please Microsoft, make one. I am an awful designer. And I'm pretty sure there's a lot of other people with the same problem.