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ISO Files to USB – The Cheap and Easy Way
(DISCLAIMER: Yes there are lots of more elegant ISO software beside the free Microsoft one I’m about to show. But free is free and it has been tested and works for me for making advance bootable USB...
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Windows 8 Will be Here Tomorrow; but Should Silverlight be Gone Today?
The software industry lives within an interesting paradox. IT in the enterprise moves slowly and cautiously, upgrading only when safe and necessary. IT interests intentionally live in the past. On...
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Review: ComponentOne Studio for Entity Framework
While I have always been a fan of libraries that improve coding efficiency and reduce code redundancy I have mostly been using ones that were in the public domain. As part of the Geeks With Blogs...
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Convert MP3 to AAC,FLAC to AAC (.NET/C#) FREE :)
So I was tasked with looking at converting 10 million tracks from mp3 320k to AAC and also Converting from mp3 320k to mp3 128k After a bit of hunting around the tool you need to use is FFMPEG Download...
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Add control to grid from code behind in Silverlight
In this post I show how you can easily add a control to a silverlight grid layout from code behind. First you draw the grid in the xaml. <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="Red">...
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Learning HTML5 - Sample Sites
Part of the challenge with HTML5 is understanding the range of different technologies and finding good samples. The following are some of the sites I have found most useful. IE TestDrive...
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Open a popup window from Silverlight
Silverlight has a method called HtmlPage.PopupWindow() that opens new web browser window with a specific page. You can find this method in the namespace System.Windows.Browser. If you haven’t in your...
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Star Trek inspired home automation visualisation
I’ve always been a more or less active fan of Star Trek. During the construction phase of my house I started coding a GUI for controlling the house which has an EIB. Just for fun I designed a version...
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Silverlight Cream for November 24, 2011 -- #1173
In this Thanksgiving Day Issue: Andrea Boschin, Samidip Basu, Ollie Riches, WindowsPhoneGeek, Sumit Dutta, Dhananjay Kumar, Daniel Egan, Doug Mair, Chris Woodruff, and Debal Saha.Happy Thanksgiving...
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C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Predicate, Comparison, and Converter Generic...
Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my past...
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APress Deal of the Day - 25/Nov/2011 - Pro .NET 2.0 XML
Today's $10 Deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/9781590598252 is Pro .NET 2.0 XML"Pro .NET 2.0 XML is the first book to provide a complete solution to XML on the .NET 2.0 Framework...
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Visual Studio 11 is coming
At http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/ Somasegar has discussed the next version of Visual Studio - Visual Studio 11.Have a read -Visual Studio 11 looks to be awesome!Can't code withoutThe best C# &...
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More on Visual Studio 11 from Scott Guthrie
At http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2011/10/30/web-forms-model-binding-part-3-updating-and-validation-asp-net-4-5-series.aspx, Scott Guthrie talks about data binding is ASP.NET 4.5.There is a key...
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The 25 Worst Passwords of 2011 revealed
At http://finance.yahoo.com/news/25-worst-passwords-2011-revealed-202955980.html there are two lists of worst passwords in common use.
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And now for something lighter, but don't laugh too hard!
At http://voxvocispublicus.homestead.com/Index.html there are some silent monks singing the Hallelujah chorus from Handel's Messiah. Well worth a watch!
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Interop effects by resolving and instantiating types with ArcObjects
Problem this code does not work Type t = typeof(ESRI.ArcGIS.Framework.AppRefClass); System.Object obj = Activator.CreateInstance(t); but yet this code Type t =...
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Few New Features Added to Geekswithblogs.net
After reviewing some of the feedback from our bloggers we added a couple new features to Geekswithblogs.net and there are still more to come. Here is a list of the features we added. Fixed the...
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Code Clone Analysis on Rawr – Part 0
Code Clone Analysis is a cool new feature in Visual Studio 11 (vNext). It analyzes all the code in your solution and attempts to identify blocks of code that are similar, and thus candidates for...
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1360x768x32 Resolution in Windows 8 in VirtualBox
My Lenovo ThinkPad's built-in screen maxes at 1366x768x32. I wanted to use that same resolution with Windows 8 Developer Preview inside of VirtualBox. So, what did I do? Downloaded the latest build...
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Silverlight Cream for November 25, 2011 -- #1174
In this Issue: Michael Collier, Samidip Basu, Jesse Liberty, Dhananjay Kumar, and Michael Crump. Above the Fold: WP7: "31 Days of Mango | Day #16: Isolated Storage Explorer" Samidip Basu...
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