Earlier this month Wacom released Driver 6.02-1 for Windows Vista. I've been running it for about two days and running this driver solves the problems I was having in January . Once I installed the driver, I went to the Control Panel for Pen and Input...

Screenshots to illustrate the progress I've made using C# and VSTO 2005 SE to create a Add-In that simulates a ribbon for VIsio 2007.

Unlike Word 2007 and Powerpoint 2007, Visio 2007 doesn't have the new Ribbon UI. Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition, we can make our own. The screenshot below shows a ribbon-like UI. It is a simple Vision anchored window hosting...

[Update on 2007-05-21] Wacom has an official driver now that works for me and does not require the workaround. See this blog entry for details: http://blogs.msdn.com/saveenr/archive/2007/03/08/new-wacom-driver-for-vista-available.aspx After...

I just read Choose RELAX Now (Tim Bray) and RELAX NG Wins (Elliotte Rusty Harold) and spent today learning more about RELAX NG. Some Background To give some perspective on the length of my involvement with XML and defining schemas: I was working...

UPDATE: 2006-11-28 The podcast no longer appears on the site. I think a new one will be prepared soon. I'll make a new post when it appears. This podcast is a high-level discussion of FCS (the official abbreviation for Forefront Client Security...

The Need Given an HTML file you want to exract all the HREF urls. You could use a Regex I've done this before, but haven't found it entirely reliable. I use regex's so infrequently it is painful to relearn the syntax every time. What I recommend Use the...

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Posted earlier this week: http://www.microsoft.com/forefront/clientsecurity/ Direct link to video: Step 1- See Microsoft Forefront Client Security in Action (.wmv) It's a good video to watch to guage our progress because it is a (recent) recording of...

In December 2005, I posted this: Thinking about Monad and other Scripting Languages I was learning Powershell (called Monad at the time) and was thinking about it in relation to IronPython. In December, despite my 10 year history with Python I was cautious...

A small mystery I'm sharing that may save someone frustration in the future. A discovery I closed all the windows on my XP machine to discover this: What's going on? At first I thought I had mistakenly copied the contents of my C:\ drive...

As part of a larger project I needed to have a text file that contained the filenames and metadata for the contents of my Windows Media Player 9 library. Below are two examples to show how it is done. The scripts are not identical, but are close enough...

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It’s been 10 years since I started working with python ( www.python.org ). A brief anecdote I started as a spirited fan of Perl. As a graduate student in Vanderbilt University, I was writing admin scripts for Linux boxes, experimenting with CGI...

Background Jeff Tranberry posted an article on installing and using the Photshop ScriptingListener Plug-In ( http://blogs.adobe.com/crawlspace/2006/05/installing_and_1.html ). It's a good plug-in for leaning for to perform more advaned photoshop animation...

We ordered a MacBook Pro for a Program Manager in my team today and I volunteered to install XP because I enjoy bare-metal OS installations. Below is how I got this to work. Overview of Steps Please read the Installation Notes at the bottom...

Yesterday, I needed to take a set of 16 bitmap frames and assemble them into a movie (AVI or animated gif). The solution came via a fantasic article on CodeProject: A Simple C# Wrapper for the AviFile Library http://www.codeproject.com/cs/media...

I just bought the new version of the screen capture application, HyperSnap 6 . NOTE: I have written about HyperSnap before ( http://blogs.msdn.com/controlpanel/blogs/posteditor.aspx?SelectedNavItem=Posts&sectionid=5076&postid=471754 ). I...

Python Quick Reference by Richard Gruet If you are learning Python or IronPython, then you should check out my favorite quick reference for Python. It's especially useful that multiple styles and formats of the document are available: Link to...

General www.python.org Link to list of Quick References: http://rgruet.free.fr/#QuickRef Link directly to Python 2.4 Quick Reference: http://rgruet.free.fr/PQR24/PQR2.4.html# Pytho Quick Reference Card - http://www.limsi.fr/Individu...

Books Designing Interfaces : Patterns for Effective Interaction Design Jennifer Tidwell ISBN: 0596008031 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596008031/ref=sr_11_1/104-6170868-4062356?%5Fencoding=UTF8 http://designinginterfaces.com/ User Interface...

The URL http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ A Sample of the Output A Case for Operating Systems Anonymous Coward Abstract DHCP must work. Given the current status of adaptive algorithms, theorists shockingly desire the...

I have spent the last week building a simple wizard framework for prototyping. I've posted a link to the various wizard frameworks I found during my investigation. http://blogs.msdn.com/saveenr/articles/winforms_wizard_frameworks.aspx Ultimately...

Bringing Back FlowLayout to WinForms Controls http://codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/CSharpFlowLayoutPanel.asp Simple Layout Managers http://dotnet.jku.at/projects/slm/ Providing Custom Layout Engines for Windows Forms http://www.dotnet247...

Justin Rogers - Winforms Wizard articles Article 1 - The fastest Wizard in the West. Article 2 - A slightly better WinForms wizard, and slightly more work. Article 3 - Adding Named Panel Navigation to the WizardController Article...