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Flickr.Net used in Microsoft WPF Demo

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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[tags]microsoft,flickr.net[/tags]

Expression products available on MSDN

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

Flickr.Net Introduction in Spanish

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]

Flickr.Net included in Mono source

Thanks to Nick (heatxsink) the Flickr.Net source code in now included in the latest Mono source code. That means anyone using the latest version of mono will be able to use the Flickr.Net library to interogate Flickr. Wow, its a bit like being included in the .Net Framework - feels weird.In Mono its known as [...]

Flickr Mashups Book

Beginning Flickr Mashups, the book I worked on as Technical Editor last year is finally available for publishing. It covers a wide variety of Flickr Mashups including mixing Flickr with RSS, Technorati and Google Maps. Most of the code uses PHP and HTML/Javascript with a bit of Perl for command line tools. I've not got [...]

Lots of Something You Should Know…

I keep my eye on http://blogs.msn.com every so often, and one of the blogs (who has long ago been added to my blogroll) that has continually produced posts of immediate relevance to me (as  a .Net developer) is Irena Kennedy's blog, "AppDev: Something You Should Know" or "SYSK" for short :) She's done it again [...]

How times change…

How times change - the following is taken from some installation notes dating only back to around 2000:"Depending on the features installed on your host server, the e-Work web update could be as large as 20 MB in size. Please consider the time required to perform this download, and the impact on available bandwidth within [...]

Flickr Uploadr for Mobile Devices

OK, I've written a Flickr Uploader using the .Net Compact Framework 2.0 (SP1).

http://www.wackylabs.net/download.php?file=FlickrUploadCF.CAB

I don't actually have a pocket PC or similar device so if you have any success, or problems then let me know.

You can download the redistributable for the CF here.

Copy the Cab file to your mobile device and then double click it in [...]

Invalid Use of Default Parameter

For some unknown reason I'm connecting to a Oracle 10g database via ODBC (from .Net! don't ask). I was adding some new code to a existing project which I'd manage to get to use IDataReader and such so that if one day I decided to switch from ODBC it would be easy. However all the old code uses [...]

Implement "Donut Caching" with the ASP.NET 2.0 Output Cache Substitution Feature

  Scott Guthrie has produced yet another brilliant blog post on a new feature in ASP.Net. To be frank I never used the old ASP.Net 1.1 caching (bad me!) but I fully intent to use this new feature as soon as I'm developing my next web app (VB.Net windows app at the moment). Link to [...]

Timers and Threads in .Net

I recently came across the following 'gotcha' which once you know about it seems really obvious, but was driving me up the wall. Side Note: Timers in .Net In Visual Studio 2003 there are 2 timers availabe from the toolbox, System.Timers.Timer and System.Windows.Forms.Timer. The Forms.Timer is the one that exhibits this problem (and is [...]

Big Developer Announcements from Microsoft

Tim Heuer was the first I've spotted of what I'm sure will be quite a few announcements about the final release of .Net Framework 3.0. Apparently they've also released a small product call 'Office 2007' to go along with  the .Net Framework, but I'm more interested in the later :) We've also been given the Visual Studio tools [...]

Flickr.Net API - Example Web Site

I've created a quick example Flickr.Net web site in Visual Studio 2005, for both VB.Net and C#. There is a simple page that performs authentication, and stores the resulting authentication details in the session variables. There is also a very simple photo album, showing the latest 20 photos from your photo stream. The [...]

FlickrWebCam

A new application using the Flickr.Net API Library has been launched. Basically allows easy and quick uploading of your web cam images onto Flickr! Cool or what. Possibly based on the Coding 4 Fun article that tells you how to hook up a web cam using Visual Studio 2005 it looks like everything I [...]

VB.Net vs C# in Visual Studio 2005

Strangely enough considering my background using Visual Basic and programming in Access (since version 1.1 no less, back in the day it was called Access Basic) and developing web sites using ASP when .Net came out I switched straight away to C# and wished never to look back. However recently I've had a choice, rewrite 1000's [...]