August 2007 - Posts
I'll be presenting about Silverlight and the Carbon Calculator at the September 19 BaltoMSDN meeting . Thanks to Ed Mullin for hooking me up with that gig. This one promises to be fun. Not only do you get to learn about something interesting, but
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I previously posted about the Carbon Calculator we wrote using the Silverlight 1.1 alpha bits and MOSS 2007. At Microsoft's request, we put together a brief "how we did it" blog posting that is out as of today. (We're working with Conservation
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I just took a "vacation" <g> for a week, and managed to get a bunch of cabinetry done. Below are some photos of the current state. I have another two weeks coming up in September, so I should be able to get a bunch more completed at that
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ComponentOne "Sapphire" is a set of UI controls for Silverlight 1.1. The animations on some (especially the hyperpanel) still need work, but overall, this is a really nice and complete set of controls. They even include a number of the missing
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I used to have a very thick tome titled "MAPI, TAPI, SAPI" or some reordering of those acronyms. I recall that SAPI was a bit of a chore to use to get voice synthesis going. Well, I've been messing with .NET 3.5, and found a .NET 3.0 "System.Speech"
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I've been kicking around the idea of writing a windows service that acts as an answering machine and integrates with the rest of my network (accessible from the kitchen PC, for example), but I found .NET TAPI information hard to come by. TAPI 3.0
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Wow, we've come a long way since then Web Site Screen Shots from 1994 Be sure to check to check out that funky Microsoft site too. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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Some cool things coming in WPF 3.5 . My favorite is the baked-in support for controls on 3d surfaces. There was an add-in for this for previous versions (which worked but was not completely integrated), but this is great news for future applications!
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Use this at your own risk. No warranty implied. I built this today because the current templates still don't work for people using AVG anti-virus. I no longer use that myself, but I remember what a pain it was. This zip file fixes two isses. 1. You
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The Silverlight 1.1 SDK comes with a 1.0 version of the Silverlight.js file. I'm not sure if MSFT intended us to make some modification to that, or it was just a mistake when they deployed. If you use the file that came with the SDK, your users will
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