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uQueue v1.0 Released

Announcing the release of uQueue Version 1.0, a preview of future features, a (minor) rant about the Windows clipboard viewer chain and some observations on WiX.

This entry was first published on May 06, 2005, 02:33 AM, CET and categorized as Projects.

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After nearly 1 year of bug fixing, improvements to the code base and phases of project suspension I can announce the release of uQueue.

What's Next

For version 1.1 the current plan is to add search functionality (including search folders). As I have no clue how to implement this and because it will require changes to the UI it can take a while to complete :]

I am not sure if I should start to improve the browser integration for v1.1 because the next Firefox will change the extension system once again - and I have not decided on the UI anyway ;)

Clipboard Viewer

The main motivation why I changed the browser extensions to use a custom protocol instead of the clipboard to add URLs to the queue is driven by the fact that the clipboard viewer got uninstalled for irreproducible reasons. Either other applications that install clipboard viewers do not cleanup correctly or my code to install them is wrong (which is possible even tought I followed the documents on the API and the related examples). The WTL class can be downloaded from here - very basic documentation only (comments welcome anyway).

WiX

Using the WiX toolkit for setup creation is really nice. Only thing I find confusing is that I am using the ProgId\Verb element to associate my file extensions but Orca reveals that the associations are created via the Registry table and so there are some ICE warnings that advice to use the ProgId table� But the setup works and so - as I am no MSI expert - I decided that these ICEs can be ignored :]

…and now for something completely different: I'm still uncertain whether or not I should get the VS.NET 2005 TS Beta 2 DVD and stuff. The thing that holds me back from ordering it is that I will buy the Professional version only and I do not want to get used to the TS only features :]