It would be nice if one could define methods inside other methods so that they are only accessible in the context of the parent method. In Pascal one could define them at the start of the parent method, before any other commands, but after local variables block, so they could also access the variables of […]

Trying to reuse the conditional value of a switch statment in C# at the fallback “default” code block of it, and looking up if that was supported in C#, I found the a related discussion at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29628507/c-sharp-get-switch-value-if-in-default-case I added a comment there and also elaborated it a bit more at a ...

This is my answer at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4475391/wpf-silverlight-find-the-name-of-a-color Modified answer from Thomas Levesque to populate the Dictionary only when 1st needed, instead of taking the cost at startup (going to use at speech recognition-driven turtle graphics, so that user can pronounce known color names to change the ...

While adding more voice commands at SpeechTurtle, I had to update the active legend where the available commands are displayed and their text is highlighted as the respective commands are recognized by the speech recognition engine (using .NET’s managed Speech API). A problem I faced was how to add a newline and prefixing the 2nd […]

Instead of having to write in C#       speechRecognizer = CreateSpeechRecognizer();       if (speechRecognizer != null)       {         speechRecognizer.SomeProperty = someValue;         ...

(this is my answer at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14771474/voice-recognition-in-windows) I’m looking into adding speech recognition to my fork of Hotspotizer Kinect-based app (http://github.com/birbilis/hotspotizer) After some search I see you can’t markup the actionable UI elements with related speech commands in order to ...

This is a suggestion I’ve just sent in via Visual Studio’s “Send a frown” feature (rewritten here a bit differently from memory, since that feedback channel doesn’t allow you to access your previous feedback as the Microsoft Connect or the Uservoice site does) : Instead of having to write try {   … } catch […]

This is a suggestion I’ve just sent in via Visual Studio’s “Send a frown” feature: Instead of writing statements like:   List<CultureInfo> result = new List<CultureInfo>(); in C# I’d prefer to be able to write   List<CultureInfo> result = new (); inside the () one would be able to pass contructor parameters ...

I have a small older Tablet PC (Lenovo S10-3t) that I’m running Windows 10 on, having replaced its internal classic SATA hard disk with an SSD one, and since SSD space is scarce (being more expensive I got a smaller in size disk than the original one), I needed to make free space. Since that […]

I recently replaced the internal hard disk of my old Lenovo S10-3t Tablet PC with an SSD and installed Windows 10 technical preview, but recently realized the hard disk had almost run out of space. Trying to figure out why, I realized that upgrading from the Windows 10 technical preview version to the final Windows […]

Following are class diagrams for Hotspotizer’s C# code, as is currently at 4 Aug 2015 at its refactored version I maintain in my fork at GitHub (http://github.com/birbilis/hotspotizer). The respective diagram (.cd) files for Visual Studio are available in the code repository at the various subfolders: Tagged: Authoring, Automation, Class, ...

Το παρακάτω κείμενο είναι μετάφραση στα ελληνικά της σελίδας: http://designlab.ku.edu.tr/hotspotizer Μια βελτιωμένη έκδοση του πηγαίου κώδικα της εφαρμογής Hotspotizer είναι διαθέσιμη στο: http://github.com/birbilis/hotspotizer Επιβλέποντες: Prof Oğuzhan Özcan, Dr Yücel Yemez Ανάπτυξη ιδέας: Mehmet Aydın Baytaş, Dr Ayça Ünlüer Ανάπτυξη λογισμικού: ...

1) 3D Depth sensor (IR Emitter + IR Camera / Depth Sensor) 2) RGB camera (Color Sensor) 3) Microphone array 4) Tilt motor (for detecting floor and players in the playspace)   Kinect Specifications Viewing angle Field of View (FoV): 43° vertical x 57° horizontal Vertical tilt range ±27° Frame rate (depth and color stream) […]

Copying here those comments of mine at a discussion on the GraphX project: https://github.com/panthernet/GraphX/issues/21 describing the source code (physical) folder structure and the Visual Studio solution (virtual) folder structure I’ve been using at ClipFlair and other multi-platform projects. —— looking at the ...

.NET Portability Analyzer extension https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/1177943e-cfb7-4822-a8a6-e56c7905292b API Portability Analyzer – Alpha (command-line version) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42678 PLIB API XLS ...

Copying here my comment at a discussion on the GraphX project: https://github.com/panthernet/GraphX/pull/15 in case it helps somebody in using MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) in their software’s architecture ——– Using static classes instead of interfaces can mean though that you need to use reflection to call them (e.g. if ...

Below I’m elaborating a bit more my related tweet: #Fix #Silverlight & other #NPAPI (Netscape #Plugin API) at #Chrome Go to chrome://flags/#enable-npapi and click Enable, Close/Reopen browser — George Birbilis (@Zoomicon) May 13, 2015   Showing below the easiest of the suggested solutions that I found in this page   At Chrome’s ...

The Windows 8/8.1 app version of Internet Explorer is also known as IE Metro because of the “Metro” codename (inspired by navigation signs in public transport] of the Modern UI design language promoted by Microsoft). However that version isn’t the full Internet Explorer, in that it is unfortunately not supporting extensibility via plugins in the ...

At a Neo4j question in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19624414/delete-node-and-relationships-using-cypher-query-over-rest-api, a recent reply (older ones use obsolete Cypher syntax) says: Both START and the [r?] syntax are being phased out. It’s also usually not advised to directly use internal ids. Try something like: match ...

I just checked in the implementation code for a new feature for ClipFlair Studio’s Captions/Revoicing component: When playing back recorded (or loaded from a WAV or MP3 file) audio for a caption/revoicing entry, the playback is now limited to the duration of the respective caption, (End-Start) time that is (btw that component has a duration ...

Have again suggested this long before to Visual Studio team, but since Visual Studio 2013 has a “Send a Frown” feature, I’ve sent it again with some suggestions on how it could be implemented. I need some clever replace in cases like that one shown in the screenshot below, where I have the implementation of […]

It seems that sometimes TortoiseHg Mercurial (Hg) client on Windows fails to remove a 0-byte-sized file named “wlock” (a write lock to avoid simultaneous write to a local repository) in the “.hg” subfolder that holds a local repository. This results in the Commit dialog never commiting changed/removed/added files and you have to press Close there ...

My contribution to: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14109102/how-do-i-add-a-worksheet-after-all-existing-excel-worksheets   Seems Worksheets property is read-only Returns a Sheets collection that represents all the worksheets in the specified workbook. Read-only Sheets object. ...

Just sent this to the Visual Studio team via the “send a frown” button: pressing CTRL+SPACE after "buttonDropDown." (see screenshot) seems to give me suggestions of members of buttonDropDown that aren’t a fit to the Rectangle object that I’m trying to assign to I suppose you do so since I could eventually drill down into ...

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 52,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 19 sold-out performances for that many […]