Φεβρουάριος 2013 - Δημοσιεύσεις

IIS FTP login fails after Windows platform update for Server 2008 R2
27 Φεβρουαρίου 13 05:00 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια   

I had recently enabled FTP access to the ClipFlair Gallery to easy its maintenance during development and after the Windows Server 2008 R2 platform update last night (together with release for Internet Explorer 10), the FTP login stopped working. To fix it, from a command prompt with administrator rights (Start/Find, type Command and right click the [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: ClipFlair, Filters, Firewall, Fix, FTP, Gallery, Login, Posts, Security

HowTo: format XML output of DataContractSerializer
22 Φεβρουαρίου 13 04:52 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια   

based on the other samples posted at StackOverflow on how to format XML created by DataContractSerializer, that use XmlWriter, here’s a version (from ClipFlair source code) that works with streams (and Ionic.Zip library in specific). It also shows how the code is when you don’t apply formatting (using conditional compilation).  Just comment out the #define [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: .NET, ClipFlair, Contracts, Data, Formatting, HowTo, Posts, Serialization, Silverlight, XML, ZIP

Fix: Silverlight Media Framework Player VolumeElement out of sync
11 Φεβρουαρίου 13 06:54 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια   

I was just adding a storable (persistent) Volume property to the MediaPlayerView class used at ClipFlair’s MediaPlayerWindow (connected to the underlying SMF player’s VolumeLevel property), when I realized that after reloading saved state, the SMF player’s Volume control would show a different value than the value set to it (which I could confirm by flipping [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Audio, Binding, ClipFlair, Fix, Persistence, Posts, Silverlight, SMF, Templates, UI, Volume

Fix: Visual Studio opens class diagram in XML editor with double click
10 Φεβρουαρίου 13 12:00 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια   

Recently, to save myself sometime after having renamed some interfaces/classes in the ClipFlair project sourcecode, I right-clicked one of the class diagrams (.cd files) in it at Visual Studio’s “Solution Navigator” (this is an enhanced Solution Explorer addon) and using “Open With…” I opened up the diagrams with the XML editor to do a rename-all [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Bugs, Diagrams, Fix, IDE, Posts, Programming, Source, Visualization, VisualStudio