Chris Szurgot's Blog

Every month I go through this, and every month I want to grumble about it. (And the problem is compounded when you do a new system install or a system rebuild)

I just told Windows Update to check for new updates. It came back and said there were 11 updates. That could take a while to process, so I'd like to go to lunch while it's processing them. But I can't...

I can "Install Updates and Shut Down" from the shut down dialog (which means I have to restart the machine when I return), or I can install the updates, and then have it sit on the restart screen until I return, which means I then have to restart it, and wait for it to restart (and startup time on this PC is not that good)

There really needs to be an easy way to say "Install Updates and Reboot", so that it logs out, installs the updates, and the restarts so that it's at the login screen when you return.

It's never a big deal on any individual machine, but when you maintain 4 or between home and work, it would be nice to be able to streamline the process.  I know I can do Automatic updates, but I like to control when machines go up and down, so I can be logged in to do things, or in the case of the Media Center PC, I can make sure the reboot won't interfere with any recordings. Or alternately, my wife's laptop is usually in hibernate during the night, so it doesn't get done until I log on, and see it needs to be installed and rebooted, so it would be nice to just have it go, and let me know when it's done, instead of having to do something in the middle of the process.

Found on Robert McLaws site:

Performance and Reliability Updates Released. I can't speak to how much of a difference they make, but I'm installing them now, and if the notes are any indication, it should be nice.

http://www.szurgot.net/Src/WPFTraceMonitor.zip

After dogfooding for a few days, I'm releasing my first WPF program. As metioned in my post over the weekend, it's a update of an older debugging tool I had written to capture Trace.WriteLine output. I continue to like WPF, and next I'll try some graphics programs.

I kept a list of some interesting and annoying things I'd come accross. I hope this helps somebody.

 I hope people find this useful.

(If you can't download the file, my hosting company just moved the site, hopefully the DNS is propagated by now)

- Setting defaults:
http://colbycavin.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!5FFDF795EBC7BEDF!137.entry?&_c02_owner=1

This one works, but it messes up the designer.
Moved the statements into code so it doesn't mess up the designer, but it breaks the separation layer, I think.
Looking for a good way to do it in Xaml without too much extra code or markup.

- Setting Command & Input Gestures on menu items:
http://colbycavin.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!5FFDF795EBC7BEDF!129.entry?&_c02_owner=1

It seems to me there should be a cleaner way to do it in Xaml without having to create code, and then put the markup in
two separate areas in the code.

- The notify icon is a Windows Form icon since WPF doesn't provide one.

- Setting the application Icon through IconBitmapDecoder
http://www.ekampf.com/blog/2006/10/03/SettingWindowIconPropertyValueFromCodebehind.aspx
I could've just used the Application Icon, but I was trying to figure out how best to do it in code
I'd still like to know how to do it in Xaml.
- Neat! It seems that a ListView will scroll if you scroll the mouse wheel even if the focus is elsewhere in the app.
Doesn't work if the focus is on another app though. Still, a nice piece of functionality.