Archives
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Strange No-Boot, Simulated Disk Failure
I've recently been having problems with my home desktop pc (the one I use for Longhorn development), sometimes getting a “windows can't read from the boot disk; perhaps you need a new one?” type message whenever I try to get into longhorn or xp pro (after I make the selection on the boot menu).
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Copying DVDs to PocketPC
I figured I'd watch some movies / tv shows I had on upcoming plane rides, or just while I'm waiting (rehearsals Tuesday nights, and I'm the type of person who's perpetually early). So, I decided to learn how to encode movies onto my PPC. (This is used to play on the PocketTV free player:
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DC License Plates
I'm not sure if anyone subscribes to my individual feed, and I don't usually write posts on politics (I can hear the sound of browser back buttons right now!), but I saw a license plate on the way home that really made me confused.
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MSDE Web Resource Kit
The MSDE Web Resource Kit is now available, with a sample ASP.NET data driven app.
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Longhorn "Verification Mode"
After changing some system settings in Longhorn in Virtual PC, and deciding just to “turn off” the window, the next time I started up, Longhorn was running very slowly. After a while, a piece of toast popped up explaining Longhorn was in “Verification Mode” due to the crash. It then allowed me to disable it, by brining up an “Is system allowed to run in verification mode?” dialog. Very interesting... perhaps this is the next evolution of Safe Mode?
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Avalon Control Collection - UIElementCollection
One of the first things I noticed when trying to iterate through the controls of a Longhorn form looking for a control was the absence of the Controls class. In its place is the UIElementCollection, a member of the MSAvalon.Windows.Controls namespace for the PDC build. This is an array which you can use to gain access to the child controls of an element from the codebehind. For example, if you had this scenario in the XAML document:
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My Published Articles:
Longhorn / XAML (Developer.com / Codeguru.com):
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"Blog" hits mainstream
I was surprised to hear “What is a weblog or blog?” as one of the questions for Jeopardy today. The answer? Presidential candidate Howard Dean made these popular for candidates during the 2003 democratic primary campaign (I'm working from memory here, so it's not a quote.) The Category? 21st Century Trends
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New Pages, & President Atchinson
For any loyal readers of my site, I've made available a Download Page available on the left menu of my blog. This will have links to software and samples I've written. Also an articles (published) page will be added soon.
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My Project Downloads
Windows Projects
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In Depth Longhorn/XAML Property Aliasing
[*Note, this is compiled and running on the PDC builds of Whidbey and Longhorn, respectively]
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In Depth Longhorn/XAML Property aliasing
After Chris Sells asked a few questions on my last post on property aliasing, and transforming bound data with the IDataTransformer interface, I realized the post may have been a bit shallow. Here's my article on how to bind & transform data, complete with working sample:
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eXcentrics Controls
I've used controls from eXcentrics world on a few projects I have been involved in, and am impressed with their reliability and ease-of-use. The controls are donate-ware, and $75 for source code access. The collapsable panel and bread crumb trail are my favorites.
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RSS Weather
I thought this was very cool -- NOAA (the national oceanic and atmospheric administration)Is providing rss feeds for the weather, organized by state. Formats are HTML, RSS, and XML/CAP. Since feedback is “accepted through January 31, 2003”, this has been fairly stable.
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NJ Developers Meetup
Scott Watermasysk just posted about the first NJ Dev Meetup:
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Longhorn/XAML Property aliasing
Since so many people are talking about using the ContentPresenter to bind data via an alias, I figured it would be a good time to mention the IDataTransformer interface.
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Save Streaming Media Files (Including .ASX)
In case you ever wanted to save a local copy of that streaming movie trailer or funny video a friend sent, there's a neat little program called SDP (Streaming Download Project) Reciever which allows you to do this. Best of all, it's freeware.
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Microsoft Source Code Access
After the news from the other day, I had read a bit into how Microsoft licenses source code access to some of it's partners and came across this link on their “Code Center Premium” product. The video is very interesting, and shows how partners can debug into windows source code methods without having to suffer through downloading a huge block of code. The software that they show, WinDBG, will go out to a server to grab the relevent bits of code, and cache them locally (obviously) for future reference. This is a very interesting program, and is available to quite a wide array of developers, including MVPs in good standing for two or more nomination cycles.
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Longhorn on Primary RAID
“Nick B.” writes in microsoft.public.windows.developer.winfx.general on how to install and boot Longhorn on a RAID controller:
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"TranslateIt!" Longhorn
TranslateIt! is a longhorn implementation of a simple web services frontend, allowing the user to translate text from one language to another, via the textbox, dropdown, and candy-blue button at the top left.
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Comcast gives away Free McAfee Firewall
I figured I'd drop some security tips while the talk of exploits and worms is rampant.
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Longhorn -- "Not Yet Implemented"
I'm starting a thread of “Not Yet Implemented” Methods in the Longhorn SDK.