Asaf Shelly

Microsoft Office Animation Issue?

AsafShelly — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:03:00 GMT

I'm using Microsoft Office 2010 Plus. Just used Power Point 2010 Animation called Spin Animation.

In the animation pane you can select the animation and click for the menu. Selecting Effect Options lets you set the Amount for example to Full Spin, Half Spin, etc. You can also set the spin Amount to Custom and write the number of degrees. This didn't work for me until I wrote a new number but kept the degrees sign, so " 540 " didn't work, " 540° " works. You also need to hit the Enter key for it to catch.

Asaf

"office 2010" spin animation "effect options" custom amount not working

media player rip music to this location missing

AsafShelly — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:54:00 GMT

Using WMP you cannot set the RIP directory. Probably because it was set to a network location or a removable such as a disk-on-key.

On WMP's toolbar "Organize" -then "Manage Libraries" then "Music". Select any folder path that does not exist and click "Remove".

See Allan's answer for more information here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-sound/have-lost-the-ability-to-rip-music-with-win7/a1d9f4f8-1e7f-40b8-9c49-03ed907f0af3

I'm posting this becuase it was far from the first hit in a search.

Windows Embedded Compact 7 Book

AsafShelly — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:05:00 GMT

If you are interested in Windows Embedded Compact 7 you should take a look at Avi Kcholi's new book "Pro Windows Embedded Compact 7: Producing Device Drivers". Avi is the number one expert in Israel and is one of the leading figures world wide.

Soon to be published, you can already find it on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Pro-Windows-Embedded-Compact-Producing/dp/1430241799/

Enjoy!

Asaf

Interview @ Intel IDF

AsafShelly — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:59:00 GMT

Hi All,

This is the interview I gave Intel last month at the Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco.

http://software.intel.com/en-us/videos/black-belt-developer-asaf-shelly-at-idf-2011/

It has a few hints to future innovations.

Asaf

An Interesting Review Of Windows 8

AsafShelly — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:16:00 GMT

I think that people should really listen to this.. especially Microsoft people

http://altabel.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/windows-8-five-reasons-people-might-want-to-stay-away/

השב"כ מחפש מומחה ארכיטקטורת פיתוח

AsafShelly — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 02:27:00 GMT

השב"כ מחפש מומחה ארכיטקטורת פיתוח וזה נשמע לי תפקיד מפתה ויוקרתי מאד. אני מפרסם את זה בין השאר כי לא נפתחות הרבה משרות לארכיטקטים.

קישור למודעה: https://www.shabak.gov.il/jobs/alljobs/computres/Pages/129.aspx

אפשר לשלוח קו"ח גם אל: it.shabak@gmail.com

בהצלחה,

אסף

C# Library Version

AsafShelly — Tue, 24 May 2011 17:19:00 GMT

Colleting this from different sources.

Looking for a library version similar to __DATE__ __TIME__ you need to use:

System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version.ToString()

For this to change every build you need to go to project properties, 'Application' tab, open 'Assembly Information', and set the last value in 'Assembly Version' to * so instead of Assembly Version of 1.0.0.0 it should be 1.0.0.* ; This will cause an increment for every build (to verify modify code or rebuild).

Softtalkblog Interviewed Me

AsafShelly — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:09:00 GMT

Here is the link: http://softtalkblog.com/2011/04/26/programmer-profile-asaf-shelly/

If you are reading this in the UK or Germany and interested in Parallel Computing then you are welcome to join the event for networking and technical discussions with Intel's representatives and myself

C# Convert Generic Type

AsafShelly — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 11:09:00 GMT

I am posting this because I didn't see a simple solution on the first few hits when searching the net.

If you have a generic class of type T and you want to using it with basic types such as int, long, etc. You can use the following method to do the casting:

class myClass<T>
{
   private int myVal;
   public T Get()
   {
      return ((T)(Convert.ChangeType(myVal, typeof(T))));
   }
}

enum SomeEnum { One = 1, Two = 3 }
myClass<SomeEnum> X;
SomeEnum se = X.Get();

You can also use: (TYPE)(retval as IConvertible).ToType(typeof( ....

This is relevant because native types require casting and you cannot use the 'as' keyword.

(for search engines: C# Convert Generic Type to int enum, conversion, float double. Casting an enumeration. c# generic constraints. C# Constraints on Type Parameters.

Asaf

WES 2009 HORM Problem

AsafShelly — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:22:00 GMT

Windows Embedded Standard 2009, activating HORM (Hibernate Once Resume Many), xpepm.exe reported power manager cofiguration issue, fba.exe shut down the computer instead of hiberating it.

Start by verifying that you can hibernate using Windows shut-down menu. Either you cannot hibernate because a driver does not support it (or is preventing it) or you need to verify the 'Enable Hibernation' checkbox on the Power Management control panel applet (powercfg.cpl)

Windows Virtual PC Disk Compacting

AsafShelly — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:21:00 GMT

Now that I have a new laptop (Windows 7) I am using my old laptop (Windows XP) as a Windows Virtual PC machine. It works faster than the old real machine but I had a problem with the disk space. The virtual machine is reporting that it is using 85GB of disk but the file size was actually 85GB on the host OS.

When you turn off the virtual machine you can modify the virtual disk and reduce its size. The process is documented to include:

A. Disk difragmenter

B. Use an ISO image that comes with Windows Virtual PC and run it from withint the virtual machine

C. Modify the virtual disk after shutting down the system.

Here is what I got:

My 85GB virtual disk increased to 95GB after defrag

Compacting the disk from within the virtual machine increased it to 110GB

Modifying the disk reduced the size to 95GB.

At that point I gave up and simply right-clicked the virtual disk, selected file properties and told the host OS (Windows 7) to compress the file.

Using Windows 7 file compression reduced file size from 95GB to 60GB.

The ratio of 2/3 is also what I got with another 12GB disk and a 1GB disk. I can only guess that text files and empty disk segments can compress very nicely.

WARNING: backup your virtual disk before compressing the file if it is a very large file. It took me 3 attempts for the 95GB file before compression succedded. On the internet I found references talking about 40GB and up.

Bottom line is instead of defragging within the virtual machine, running a 'compation' tool, and modifying the virtual disk (which requires enough disk space to hold both the original and the compacted at the same time), just ask windows to compress the virtual disk. It would take by far less time, less disk space, and less efforts.

Note: that the compression of the file may leave your disk fragmented especially if it is almost full so you should defrag the host OS after you are done (with any file / folder compression).

Asaf

WDK setup on Windows Embedded "unknown trust provider"

AsafShelly — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:01:00 GMT

Hi All,

I tried istalling my WDF based driver on Windows Embedded Standard 2009 and it failed. Dependency walker showed that my driver is missing the reference wdfldr.sys which is installed automatically with WDF's co-installer.

Device Manager shows an unknown device under my device class and setup API identifies that a device with the class is installed in the system. When I tried to manually update the driver in Device Manager I got the error saying that the installation failed with the error "unknown trust provider".

The solution was to add cryptographic services. I didn't verify what was missing, just added all components by filtering the name with "crypto" and "certif" (for cryptographic and certificate).

This worked.

Asaf

Dell Latitude On Reader 2.1 With Office 2010 Plus Problem

AsafShelly — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:21:00 GMT

Hi All,

When I got my Intel Black-Belt title I also got a very nice Dell laptop. As a Microsoft MVP I have an MSDN subscription so I installed the latest version of Office 2010 Plus myself. The operating system is Windows 7 64 bit.

When I pressed the Latitude On Reader button the application said that I needed Outlook installed. I didn't pay much attention to it until I needed an address for a meeting which was sent to me by email. Only then I decided that the reader might be a good idea. Looking for a solution online I found nothing except people saying that they tried activating the reader with online support but had no success. I contacted online support by chat and got a free number but I thought it would be faster for me to try and solve it myself first. (someone reported an hour long conversation).

Using Process Monitor it was easy to find out that the reader is looking for a registry entry that was not there. On my older laptop with office 2007 and 2003 I found that entry.

Here is how Dell Latitude On Reader configuration tool worked for me:

Open Regedit (on the keyboard Win + R, type regedit, click OK)

Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and add a new key called Outlook.Application

Add a new subkey called CurVer

Mofidy the default value to Outlook.Application.14

In total you should have the registry path of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Outlook.Application\CurVer with the default value set to Outlook.Application.14

Note that when you are configuring the account make sure that Export calendar appointments is NOT selected. On my system the reader crashed on first import and then outlook crashed every 5 minutes (automatic import). This is true for my current version of the reader A06, 2.1.3.1230.

Edit the system registry with caution. Make a restoration point with system restore if you are not sure.

Asaf

Graphedit Error 0x8007048f: Device is not connected

AsafShelly — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:14:00 GMT

I got this error on Graph Edit: "This graph can't play. The device is not connected. (Return code: 0x8007048f)" when I tried to open a USB capture device (VC600).

The solution was to add the filter WDM Crossbar under the category WDM Streaming Crossbar, then render it's video output so that it is the input to the capture card.

Hope this helps.

World Cup

AsafShelly — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:53:00 GMT

Don't know if you are following the world cup these days but the finals are today.

It looks like there were high expectations but sometimes medium to low results...

Here is a list of bugs I found with the 2010 FIFA World Cup:

* Design bug: The referee can't see everything, actually there are only 3 of them and two are just standing on the lines. People can see replays but the referee has to ignore them. This bug causes teams to see that they are losing by mistake a few seconds after the decision was made. They see it on the big screen with multiple angles. The referee cannot consider the video to fix his decision and this bug causes teams to lose momentum and then lose the game. There is a patch however: the referee can go hard on the other team and make arguable decision in favor of the losing team to balance things up.

* Architectural bug: The architecture assumes that if you win then you are good and if you lost you are not. The problem is that you can win after playing with a bad opponent while a good team can lose after playing with a very good opponent. This is how Argentina lost to Germany while other teams advanced in a completely parallel path. Germany played Spain, so it was not possible for one to be first place and another to be second. This is by system design.

* Architectural bug: The least important games come first and the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final is the last game in the event. This means that by design the best game is played on the field with the worst conditions, after the grass got full of holes during the other less important games.

* Implementation Bug: It is hard for the goal keepers to catch the ball because it is too light and slippery. At first they tried to catch it and lost games. Now they just push the ball back. Sometimes they try to stop a good kick but even though they touch the ball it will keep going in to the goal.

* Random Bug: All the big stars started the event in a big bang and then one by one went away like dust in the wind.

All these bugs are actually there in purpose. We want to have a good game with many goals and we want the game to remain simple just as we play it back home without too much technology. Pretending to fall is part of the game...

The only problem I see here is that Spain didn't give us the best show, Germany did, but Germany lost to Spain because they were playing 'bunker' instead of attacking like we would like to see. We didn't see a good performance from the big stars, and Germany who had a good team-play already lost. And now we have to watch some average game as the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final.

I'll watch it anyway and even enjoy it, but for me the best performance was the German team, playing as a team, with many players whose families immigrated to Germany. The world has changed and we need a ball game to show us the true colors.

In respect to Germany. Here is for the true hero of the Would Cup, Schweinspider:

(need speakers)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUdjT5bf57I

All in good atmosphere.

Enjoy the game.