2020 July | Duckhead Software

iCloud Photos Downloader

Posted on 8th July 2020
/Under HEIC, iCloud

Our latest tool solves a very common problem, one which Apple can’t seem to solve. We love Apple, but when it comes to Apple Software on Windows, they have a unique strategy which is something like “Make it crap so that people will buy a Mac where the software is...Read more

Moving from vb.net to C# – Part 3 -The good, the bad, and the ugly

Posted on 6th July 2020
/Under C#, Visual Basic

One of the great things about moving to a new language is the lack of legacy restraints. We have no ‘years of doing this way’ behind us that we have to adhere to, there’s no legacy code that we have to use specific syntax for, and there’s no concept of...Read more

Moving from vb.net to C# – Part 2 – How we approached it

Posted on 3rd July 2020
/Under C#, Visual Basic

In my previous blog I talked about why we moved from vb.net to C#, in this blog I’ll talk about how we transitioned. We’re very fortunate at DuckheadSoftware, we’re independent, meaning we can do what we want, we’re also from the UK, meaning we’re optimistic 🙂 As previously explained, we...Read more

Moving from vb.net to C# – Part 1 – Why we made the move

Posted on 2nd July 2020
/Under C#, Visual Basic

Pretty much all our apps at DuckheadSoftware were written in vb.net; however, our servers were ‘hacked’ and we ‘lost’ a lot of source code. We can piece it all together from various backups, but it’ll take time; the positive is that it made us step back and look at our...Read more