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Paint.NET v3.5.11 is now available 18 Aug 2013 | 05:06 am
The primary goal of this update is preparing for the v4.0 release: v3.5.10 will not be able to offer the v4.0 update, but v3.5.11 will. I’m not a fan of putting out an update for purely infrastructure...
Paint.NET v3.5.11 BETA is now available 16 Aug 2013 | 04:50 am
This is probably not the update you were expecting I need to push out an update to v3.5 in preparation for the eventual release of v4.0, and it’s necessary to do this sooner rather than later to make ...
Paint.NET 4.0: Brushes and Shapes and stuff 31 Mar 2013 | 03:17 am
Wow, it’s been awhile since I posted! Let’s see what’s new … Brushes The new brush engine is still in its infancy so I don’t have any good screenshots I’m willing to share at this point. It fully supp...
More on Multicore JIT 19 Oct 2012 | 09:06 pm
Last month I posted about how you can use Multicore JIT, a .NET 4.5 feature, even if your app is compiled for .NET 4.0. It’s a great feature which can help your app’s startup performance with very lit...
The Paint Bucket in paint.net 4.0 (video) 2 Oct 2012 | 09:21 pm
This video showcases some of the things I can do with the new rendering engine and tool transaction system in paint.net 4.0. Even the Paint Bucket tool can get awesome “WYSIWIGEWYEI” (What You See Is ...
Using Multi-Core JIT from .NET 4.0 if .NET 4.5 is installed 9 Sep 2012 | 02:31 am
.NET Framework 4.5 contains a very cool new feature called Multi-Core JIT. You can think of it as a profile-guided JIT prefetcher for application startup, and can read about it in a few places … MSDN’...
How to fix: Diablo 3 “Blizzard Update Agent has stopped working” 18 May 2012 | 07:18 pm
I finally succumbed and bought a copy of Diablo 3 today, only to found out that it just doesn’t work: Argh! No matter what I did, it would always crash. Every single time, over and over and over and ...
Marshaling native arrays back as managed arrays without copying 1 May 2012 | 09:07 am
I’ve come up with a trick that can be used in some very specific scenarios in order to avoid extra array copying when calling into native code from managed code (e.g. C#). This won’t usually work for ...
New features for Paint.NET 4.0 9 Apr 2012 | 03:29 pm
It’s been awhile since I talked about some of the smaller features that have been implemented for Paint.NET 4.0. So, without further ado … Light Color Scheme Paint.NET 3.5 uses a blue color scheme. ...
MySpace Music Has Questionable Ethics? 6 Apr 2012 | 04:58 am
Sometimes you have a conversation via e-mail that’s so bad it just warrants publication. As the author of Paint.NET I get a lot of e-mails. Sometimes they’re simple questions about Paint.NET and I rep...
