I learnt something new today. You can use the DOS ‘ECHO’ command to output a line (or in fact any text you want) by putting a period ‘.’ immediately after the ECHO. i.e. The following will echo a blank line.
C:\> ECHO.
Also, if you want to echo some special characters you can put a carat ‘^’ [...]
Coding Horror: Does More Than One Monitor Improve Productivity?
A difficult one this one - I’ve never actually been able to work with 2 same sized monitors, but I have tried to use a laptop and an external monitor at the same time, and personally I found the ’second’ monitor (the external one is bigger so [...]
Flickr .Net Screensaver - Release: Release 4.2
Finally released a new version of the screensaver. This is a beta release, but hopefully should fix the problems that people have been having with memory and threading issues.
Tagged by Brenda, so…
I shall start at 1 and see how far I get - so in no particular order:
1. Convert my Flickr Screensaver to WPF.
I thought I’d start off with this as this is a mostly code related blog. I’ve written some small prototypes and it looks like it could be quite good. [...]
I’m please to say that the new version of the Jing Project, a tool for capturing video and screenshots of your desktop uses the Flickr.Net library to upload the files to Flickr (I’m assuming on the Windows only version).
As you can see from the screenshot on the right it works a dream
Since I started working as the technical editor for the XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 reference book I thought I’d try my hand at helping out on the Wrox Programmer to Programmer (P2P for short) forums.
When I first started out I was a ‘Starting Member’ but soon progressed to ‘New Member’.
Not long after that I [...]
News about the recently previewed Model-View-Controller framework for ASP.Net is that a first look Community Technology Preview is due out in a few weeks.
It will form part of the ASP.Net Futures release, which is a product I had a quick look at recently, and includes some wonderful stuff on Dynamic Forms.
For an overview of what [...]
Most XSLT processors contain methods to call custom methods (known as extension methods) written in your favourite programming language. Java XSLT processors allow you to write them in Java, and the old MSXML processor allowed you to write the in VBScript or Javascript.
The new .Net Framework classes XslTransform (or more recently XslCompiledTransform) allows you to [...]
After trying to catch up on the .Net Rocks shows (great shows for .Net deveopers - you learn things you didn’t even know you needed to know, and some things you didn’t need to know) I couldn’t believe it when the winner of their latest competition was from Tyne & Wear. Only problem is they [...]
Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries - ScottGu’s Blog
I think that says it all really. Wow.
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After much deliberation I’ve finally decided to move the development of the Flickr Screensaver over to the Codeplex web site. This means that if you’re really sad you can now see the source code for the screensaver.
Also, if you have any problems with it that’s the best place to post a bug report or feature [...]
The latest version of the Flickr.Net API library has been released. Its finally got full support for the Compact Framework in the source code (.Net Framework 2.0 SP 1 and later).
As usual, let me know (hopefully via the Codeplex web site) if you’ve got any problems.
FlickrNet API Library
Title says it all really, the Flickr.Net API Library has been used to produce a very nice styling and templating demo for the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Its called ‘PhotoStore’.
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Excellent news for ‘us’ MSDN subscription users - Microsoft Expression products will be made available via the MSDN subscription service (at a certain level anyway).
See Scott’s web site for all the juicy details.
ScottGu’s Blog : Expression Products Added to MSDN
Discovered a copy of my Flickr.Net beginners article in spanish portuguese on the Brasil microsoft web site today. How cool is that.
Execução de Flickr com .NET: Sam Judson BT
Edit: OK, so Brazilians speak portuguese, but it is available in Spanish as well here.
[tags]flickr.net, .net, spanish, portuguese[/tags]