Please update your bookmarks, because the new url of this blog is http://khason.net/ (you have not update RSS feeds, it will be done automatically). Why I did it? Why I decided to go to “stand-alone”… Well. there are some reasons. Generally, I do not want to explain all those here, but trust me, there are some. The main reason is, that there is no responsible person in charge for this blog platform in Microsoft Israel. This why, if your blog is popular and you have a respect to your blog visitors...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/read-and-use-fm-radio-or-any-other-usb-hid-device-from-c/ ] Last time we spoke about reading and decoding RDS information from FM receivers . Also we already know how to stream sound from DirectSound compatible devices . However, before we can do it, we should be able to “speak” with such devices. So, today we’ll spoke about detection and reading information from Radio USB adapters (actually...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/using-vista-preview-handlers-in-wpf-application/ ] First of all what is Preview Handler? Preview Handler is COM object, that called when you want to display the preview of your item. Other words, Preview Handlers are lightweight, rich and read-only previews of file’s content in a reading pane. You can find preview handlers in Microsoft Outlook 2007, Windows Vista and, even sometimes...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/to-ole-from-ole-color-translator-in-wpf/ ] In GDI+ (Winforms) world, there was very handy class inside System.Drawing. It named ColorTranslator and it used to translate from OLE integer color value into GDI+ Color and vice verse. In WPF there is no such class, so if you’re working with old COM/COM+ application you have either reference System.Drawing.dll or write those two methods...