Posts Tagged ‘Drivers’

Windows 7: Update your NVIDIA drivers

// May 13th, 2009 // No Comments » // 7, Microsoft, Windows

Well this took me by surprise, but apparently the latest drivers from NVIDIA support Windows 7 natively — no need for beta/pre-release drivers! You would have thought that the Windows Update on Windows 7 would have thrown this update at you, but apparently it’s lagging a bit behind..

The release version is 185.85, and it was released on May 6th, 2009. It supports all the Windows 7 features that the pre-release WDDM 1.1 driver supported, and boasts performance increases in a variety of games. Download links are below!

32-bit: Download here
64-bit: Download here

Enjoy!

C# How-To: Creating a Driver Foundation

// September 22nd, 2008 // 2 Comments » // .NET, C#, Programming

“Driver Foundation”?
A driver foundation is a class that your program will go through to access several other types of classes that all have something in common (i.e.: A database driver).

Generic Outlook

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Actual Example for Database Platform

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Why would I need this? Is this really necessary?
If you’re not worried about expandability in your application, then forget about it. However, if you’re designing an application that would need to access and query different types of databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MSSQL, etc), then having a driver foundation is ideal. Otherwise you will end up with an unmanageable mess of code – you would need to control (for each different database type) the output type for queries, query syntax, and a bunch of other stuff.

Using a driver foundation you really only deal with one type of object, and one type of output for all types of databases.

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