Sharing a small tip … I recently needed a lightweight tool to extract the audio components from an FLV file and save it as an MP3 file. After some searching I found that you can use FFmpeg to easily extract the audio. C:\> ffmpeg.exe -i <input.flv><output...

In the summer I gave up trying to make my web server (on the internal Microsoft network) look perfect – and really I gave up on HTML and the complexity that went with it. What I wanted was simple text formatting that didn’t require specialized tools...

I needed to find some files without restoring to the desktop search UI – this IronPython script implements a very simple search that uses System.Data.OleDb* to query the Windows Desktop Search catalog import clr import System clr.AddReference...

Recently I’ve been playing with System.Data.DataTable and needed to generate an Excel Spreadsheet from from records stored in a DataTable (CSV format wasn’t sufficient for my needs). The sample below uses the ExcelXmlWriter library from Carlos Aguilar...

Want to see how UIs have changed through the years? An email thread at Microsoft pointed me at an online resource called  gui debook - http://www.guidebookgallery.org/ It doesn’t look to have been updated since 2006, but if you are looking for screenshots...

BACKGROUND Dynamics AX 2009 is a huge project and when I describe the value it delivers I always make sure I mention that to achieve that full value, a customer should be using Role Centers . And just for reference here is one of the Role Centers – the...