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Playing MKV (or any other) media file on the Xbox through Media Extender

2011-08-02T02:15:00Z

I was looking for a way to play MKV files through my Xbox360 via media extender. The most dominante procedure involves re-encoding the video to avi or something. WAY too much work. This is so easy with media extender! See, the Xbox360's Media Center can interface with your computer's Media Center. As long as the PC's media center can play the video, so can the Xbox360's media center. Now for obvious competitive reasons, Microsoft does not include all the codecs known on the internet. So your job...(read more)

Stylizing your Excel worksheets with Open XML 2.0

2009-11-30T18:48:00Z

It’s a long overdue post so I will get right to it. This is not a post about Themes and I probably will never get into it. The class that applies the actual styling is a collection called CellFormats , which holds a number of CellFormat objects, which basically indexes the Ids of defined Fonts, Fills, Borders, Alignments, etc.. There is also another collection called CellStyleFormats that makes the indents in the ribbon control (under styles group box) to show what your styles implement. Filling...(read more)

Creating an Excel spreadsheet from scratch using OpenXML

2009-07-22T18:57:00Z

After spending a work day scouring for some quality examples on how to create an excel spreadsheet, it was pretty obvious there weren't any. I am not sure if I should have been surprised or the fact that folks just use the tons of examples where they use an existing Excel spreadsheet file. For the novice getting into it, it could be pretty daunting. Especially now since most examples written are a mix of the old Open XML 1.0 using the XmlDocument/XmlElement/XmlTextWriter classes with the Open XML...(read more)

Stackoverflow, TextBox, UpdateSourceTrigger, PropertyChanged, RelativeSource Self

2008-07-01T20:48:00Z

For lack of a better title, I am sure someone out there tried to perform validation work on a textbox where it was bound to itself. Follow the code sample if you will: < TextBox > < TextBox.Text > < Binding RelativeSource = " {RelativeSource Self} " Path = " Text " UpdateSourceTrigger = " PropertyChanged " /> </ TextBox.Text > </ TextBox > Once you type something in the text box, whammo! StackOverflowException. See: http://forums.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/wpf/thread...(read more)