Dan Spear

Dan Spear

Dan is the Chief Architect for Laplink Software, and creator and principal developer for their flagship product, PCmover.

In the 80s and 90s, he had various titles (Director of Advanced Research, Fellow, Lead Architect, and Senior Developer) at Quarterdeck Corporation, best known for the most popular memory manager of the time, QEMM, which he wrote.

Dan is the inventor on five U.S. Patents related to the work at Quarterdeck.

Detailed Bio

Dan is the Chief Architect for Laplink Software, and creator and principal developer for their flagship product, PCmover.

In the 80s and 90s, he had various titles (Director of Advanced Research, Fellow, Lead Architect, and Senior Developer) at Quarterdeck Corporation, best known for the most popular memory manager of the time, QEMM, which he wrote.

Dan is the inventor on five U.S. Patents related to the work at Quarterdeck.

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  • Adding Scripting to Existing Code Using Reflection

    Last updated: Thursday, December 14, 2023

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2023 - May/Jun

    Dan and Vassili demonstrate how to use C# reflection from a scripting language to let you take well-known and debugged parts of C# code and get more functionality and control. For example, with scripting, you can use technology in new ways that go beyond what the basic user interface allows. The main example takes C# code from a complex service and create CSCS (Customized Scripting in C#) code that looks very similar to the C# code, so that the scripting language now has access to a very complicated existing DLL.