Desktop Development

Mindfire has an excellent delivery record and primary focus on developing for the Windows platform: desktop, server and new-technology applications.

Our expertise and experience of Windows technologies moves from system-level programming (processes, threads, semaphores) to desktop applications (VC++/VB), and from Office applications (Word/Excel add-ins and macros) to enterprise development (MS-Exchange, .NET).

The following lists some technologies we have worked on:

• Windows VB Development : Mindfire Solutions provides a range of services on Visual Basic development with the support of our rich application development expertise and 10+ years of windows development experience.
• Windows .Net Development : Mindfire Solutions has rich experience in developing Microsoft Windows based .NET desktop applications. We are a .Net Development company and we specialise in custom application development of Microsoft .
• Mac OS X Classic Development ; The Mac OS Classic platform has been one of Mindfire Solutions' unique strengths. Since its founding, in 1999, Mindfire Solutions has offered Mac development services with unique competence over 10 years.
• Mac OS X Carbon Cocoa Development: Mindfire had great experience on Mac OS Carbon and Cocoa development by the time Mac OSX was launched. Having developed applications on Mac OS 8.x and 9.x systems, Mindfire had deep expertise on software development targeted for Mac development environments (either singularly or cross-platform).

.NET	.NET Framework and CLR, .NET/COM interoperability
Windows OS	Win32 API, system/server programming
Component technologies	OLE/ActiveX, COM/DCOM
Enterprise technologies	MTS, MSMQ, LDAP, MS-Exchange/Outlook, .NET
Office technologies	MS-Office add-ins and macros
Data Access	ODBC, DAO, ADO/OLE-DB, JDBC, Native
System technologies	Win32, Device driver (RS-232, USB)
Graphics/3-D	Native API, DirectX, QuickTime, OpenGL
Internet	TCP/IP, VoIP, data upload/download
Security	Encryption/compression, RSA, Blowfish
Java technologies	Applet/application, AWT/Swing, Beans, J2EE/EJB

Some of the tools we have used extensively are listed below:

Microsoft tools	Visual Studio (VC++/MFC/ATL, VB) Visual Studio .NET (including C#)
Borland tools	Delphi, C++ Builder, JBuilder
Open-source tools	GCC/Perl and various toolkits
Sun/Java tools	Sun JDK/J2EE
IBM tools	VisualAge for Java/C++
Metrowerks tools	CodeWarrior for Windows

For more details on Windows databases, please visit our database skills page.
For more details on Windows web development, please visit our web skills page.