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 […]

I just installed .NET 3.5 on a Windows Enterprise 8.1 system that was failing to bring the needed files from the network To do this I opened a command prompt with elevated rights and ran a single command, having the Windows DVD at drive F: Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx3 /All /Source:F:\sources\sxs /LimitAccess as explained at ...

This is my contribution to: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19294258/forcing-mediaelement-to-release-stream-after-playback/27436323 If you use MediaElement, make sure you don’t get bitten by this one: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc626563(v=vs.95).aspx ArgumentNullException – The mediaStreamSource is null. … After ...

My comment at: https://github.com/loarabia/ManagedMediaHelpers/issues/16 While trying to use Mp3MediaSource at ClipFlair Studio’s AudioRecorder control (http://clipflair.codeplex.com), I noticed that when I was doing Stop() at MediaElement and then Play() it kept on playing from where it was before at Mp3MediaStreamSource So I did the ...

At ClipFlair’s AudioRecorderControl (used in Captions/Revoicing component of ClipFlair Studio), I use the following code to initialize a MediaElement to use for playback. After a long time a found out that if the MediaElement is not in the visual tree (for example defined in XAML, or defined in code and then added to the visual […]

Just added the following comment to: https://github.com/loarabia/ManagedMediaHelpers/issues/15 Managed Media Helpers contains the very useful Mp3MediaSource class for .NET / Silverlight / Windows Phone. Added compile-time SWITCHES and respective code to Silverlight demo code for PRELOAD (into memory stream) and AUTOPLAY (this was a bit tricky, ...

at http://zachis.it/blog/7-dangers-of-using-windows-server-on-a-wordpress-installation/ the thing that guy says about Permalinks isn’t accurate at all (not that the other things that he says are any accurate that is). WordPress Codex have documentation on how to configure URL rewriting in web.config that is necessery for Permalinks to work in IIS. ...

Just fixed a nasty bug in ClipFlair Studio (http://studio.clipflair.net), where one couldn’t click hyperlinks in the Text component when set at ReadOnly mode. In that mode hyperlinks should open up new web pages (in Edit mode you can edit/remove them only of course), but instead when clicked they would show something like a focus rectangle ...

PivotViewer is an impressive Silverlight control (see my usage at http://gallery.clipflair.net), however Microsoft never released it for WPF. One could work arround this by embedding Silverlight in their WPF app using the WebBrowser control and talking to it via the JavaScript Bridge of Silverlight, however they could also embed one of those HTML5 ...

at http://www.mono-software.com/Mono/Pages/Discussion/dtopic/_YyUBIlx5kiqHaNqAQeltg/br-brake-bug-in-IE11-and-clipflair-text-editor/ one reads: We are using Telerik’s rich text editor (RadEditor), and it seems that RadEditor has specific behaviour regarding insertion of break tags. To circumvent this issue please try to add host header in ISS ...

This is my contribution to: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2652816/what-is-the-difference-between-document-location-href-and-document-location Here is an example of the practical significance of the difference and how it can bite you if you don’t realize it (document.location being an object and document.location.href being a string): We ...

I just noticed that on Internet Explorer 11 developer tools console (appears when you press F12 key), there is a drop-down where you can select the rendering engine used. Edge means the very latest (IE11 one in this case) and you can select back to version 5. Interestingly, there is no version 6 in the […]

<xsl:template match="cxml:Item" mode="col">   <xsl:variable name="FILENAME" select="…someXPathQuery…"/>   <xsl:variable name="IMAGE" select="concat(‘http://gallery.clipflair.net/activity/image/’, $FILENAME, ‘.png’)"/> … I got confused a bit ...

While trying to generate a single HTML page that will list all ClipFlair activities using XSL Transformations (XSLT), I had the need to group items in 2-column rows. This is my contribution to other solutions suggested at (if you like it you can vote it up there): ...

In C/C++ and C# one has useful prefix (++index) and postfix (index++) increment operators and corresponding decrement ones. Although they have a single operant, they’re not working like functions as single + or – prefix would do, but instead they cause side-effects – they edit the variable passed to them. The prefix increment operator first ...

Trovigo.com is an unwanted search engine hijacker that renders Internet Options of Windows / Internet Explorer inaccessible. To restore them on an older Windows XP installation, one way that I’ve found to work is to update Internet Explorer to a newer version, aka IE 8 (say via the embedded Windows Update facility or Microsoft Update ...

When you try to run a ClickOnce Windows application from Mozilla Firefox, on some machines you may see it try to save a .application (ClickOnce deployment manifest) instead of running the ClickOnce application installer/updater/launcher. To fix that issue you can open Firefox add-ons dialog and search among available to download/install add-ons ...

at System.IO.Path.GetInvalidPathChars one reads: The array returned from this method is not guaranteed to contain the complete set of characters that are invalid in file and directory names note: can also call this method from non-trusted Silverlight app – not as Intellisense tooltip wrongly says in Visual Studio 2013 with Silverlight 5.1 I ...

I was recently adding drop-files support to ClipFlair Studio, so I had to do some research on the related API that is available to Silverlight apps. Silverlight supports a limited set of Drag-and-Drop interaction with the operating system (supposedly for security reasons, but most probably because of the classic cross-platform implementation ...

It seems that CaptureMouse is behaving differently in WPF and Silverlight, in that in the former one it immediately calls OnLostMouseCapture at a Visual, whereas in Silverlight it doesn’t get called if the element didn’t have the mouse capture already (btw, in Silverlight that method is at a UIElement – there is no Visual ...