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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/programming-for-windows-7/ ] Well, Windows 7 is going to be released by the end of next year. This is great news, because it seemed, that Microsoft finally understand how to get the best of Windows Vista and make it to work not only on monster machines . It even works on new brandy my wife's pinky machine. And if it works there and my wife is happy with it, this OS going to be very...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/what%e2%80%99s-new-in-msdn-downloads/ ] Just look how many new releases those days in MSDN Download web site. Virtual PC 2007 SP1 – download and release notes Scriptomatic 2.0 - download (uses PowerShell 1.0) Windows PowerShell V2 CTP2 - download Office Live Update 1.1 - download .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 beta – download Visual Studio 2008 SP1 beta - download Microsoft Expression Blend 2...
[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/some-new-post-mix-downloads/ ] Today is download day at MSDN. There are some very interesting things published. New release of Windows SDK (new classes for WPF 3.5, bugs fixes, and enhanced support for Windows Server 2008, including speech, error reporting and UAC). Download it here . For more information, visit SDK blog Windows XP SP3 RC2 (it's not final release ), but if you want...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/a-couple-of-updates-mega-update-post/ ] Today, only updates Yahoo finally releases Yahoo! Messenger for Vista - this was one of very first prototypes, shown in Mix last year. I did not install it, however, here a couple of review Erik Burke , Tim Sneath and Ryan Stewart . As for me, they lost "wow effect" last year Microsoft Expression Blend 2 - December Preview . What's...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/seek-and-hide-x64-or-where-my-sound-recoder/ ] Everyone knows a useful Windows utilities, SoundRecorder.exe application. I believe, that most of you knows where this application in your disk. If not, it's always possible to look into shortcut. So, let's go to %SystemRoot%\system32 and look for the application So far so good. Now, let's look for this file by using...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/dev411-wpf-for-developers-optimizing-your-wpf-application/ ] Less, then 24 hours until Developer Academy 2 a lot of pressure and stress . Last fixes to my presentation - it's too long now. A lot of stuff, I want to speak about, a lot of demos (mostly very bad performing applications, I'm dealing with), three computers (one is really cool with 8.9 Vista score) and, of cause, a...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/how-to-use-windows-vista-search-api-from-wpf-application/ ] Another great service, provided by Windows Vista is it's integrated search. Can we use it from our WPF application? Sure we can. This how you'll do it. First of all you'll need to find Windows Search API library inside Windows SDK. Locate SearchAPI.tlb and process it with tlbimp tool to create managed assembly to...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/wpf-controls-library-wpf-bloggers-give-away-silverlight-as-forms-examples-virtualization-hardware-assessment-20-for-windows-vista-and-wpc/ ] Mike Swanson keeps up-to-day his list of WPF Tools and Controls . Absolutely useful page. Charles Petzold, the author of great WPF books , asks WPF bloggers to send him their blog and postal address, 'cos he think, that those, who write about...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/visual-studio-orcas-june-2007-ctp-is-available/ ] After a limited beta Visual Studio 2008 ("Orcas") June CTP VPC is available to wide public. A lot of bugs fixed (thank you all those who tested it), some new features added. Nice work! Download VS2008 June 2007 CTP VPC Technorati Tags: orcas , visual Studio.beta , VSTS , download , CTP , .NET framework 3.5 , WPF , WCF , WF
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/acropolis-july-ctp-available-now/ ] July is the best CTP time ever (a lot of sun in Redmond) Katy Kam from Acropolis team announced that Acropolis July CTP is release and can be downloaded here New features: Transition Animation improvements - you can now add transitions when changing page in TabLayoutPanes Better design time support - you can now use Application designer to select themes...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/orcas-june-ctp-for-limited-beta-is-available/ ] After releasing June CTP of .NET framework 3.5, June CTP bits of Visual Studio 2008 (Team Suite and Visual Web Developer) are also ready for limited beta as Layout or VPC image. If you want to test it, please let me know via comments or by contacting me directly. Technorati Tags: Orcas , Visual Studio , VSTS , beta , download , CTP , .NET...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/roxio-central-in-wpf/ ] More and more companies move their products to WPF. Actually, why now? Great technology, which able us to create outstanding UI with no time. FX-effects, geek-oriented user experience. New version of CD/DVD burning software from Roxio proofs my claims. Look yourself to free Roxio Central (beta) , build completely with WPF. Great work.