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Communicate across multiple Silverlight 2 instances in c-sharp

I recently was writing a video player in Silverlight 2 beta 2 and there was a requrement that when you hit PLAY on one player, all the others stopped. That's fine, I thought, I'll just create a static list and add each instance to the list in the constructor. Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 05, 2008 5:19 PM by ptallett | 1 Comments

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 ClientAccessPolicy.xml

Thanks to Simon Middlemiss, you need a new ClientAccessPolicy.xml file with Silverlight 2 Beta 2 if you are going to access web services. Also your URL MUST not contain underscores (eg MyApp_Web was the default for Beta 1). Just rename your website in Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 07, 2008 12:40 PM by ptallett | 2 Comments
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XBox 360 How to tell 65 nanometer (falcon) from older boxes

I just bought a new XBox 360 Premium yesterday (15-March-2008) and when I got it home I thought I'd make sure I had the newer Falcon 65 nanometer technology unit. I found an article which said shine a flashlight into the bottom and if you can see a copper Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 16, 2008 5:52 PM by ptallett | 1 Comments
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Parrot Bluetooth Sound System Speakers

I recently bought a Parrot Bluetooth Sound System which is a pair of speakers with their own amplifiers, connected to the PC with Bluetooth. http://www.parrot.com/usa/products/parrotsoundsystem There don't seem to be many reviews about this product on Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 08, 2007 1:24 PM by ptallett | 1 Comments

Silverlight production site T5M goes live!

Our team has been busy building a new website www.t5m.com that went live last week! I think it is pretty cool, using Silverlight 1.0 and about 4000 lines of Javascript plus lots of ASP.NET and Ajax. Its a video magazine that posts interview snippets with Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 08, 2007 1:17 PM by ptallett | 1 Comments
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This copy of Windows must be activated with Microsoft before you can proceed

There seems to be a bug in Windows Server 2003 R2 that if you try to repair your system after hardware changes you get the error message "This copy of Windows must be activated with Microsoft before you can proceed" when you try and login, but when you Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 27, 2007 4:48 PM by ptallett | 3 Comments

Ultimate Vista Laptop/Ultimate WPF Laptop

Hi! Only 6 months between blog posts! Sorry, I've been pretty maxxed. I've been hunting around for the utlimate laptop to run WPF applications on Vista. We have produced some pretty heavy WPF demos in the UK that make a lot of use of WPF 3D, for example Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 24, 2007 8:55 AM by ptallett | 2 Comments
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Microsoft Da Vinci Code

Recently had this very funny Microsoft take on the Da Vinci code forwarded to me. It is quite long but very funny. http://www.proudlyserving.com/archives/2006/06/the_microsoft_c_6.html No I don't know anything about 8/2110! Cheers, Paul Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 17, 2006 9:04 AM by ptallett | 1 Comments

Insufficient System Resources to complete the requested API

If you get this error when you try and hibernate your laptop, chances are you have 2GB of RAM or more and you've hit a Windows bug. Try searching for the following hotfix and installing it. WindowsXP-KB909095-x86-ENU.exe Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:18 PM by ptallett | 1 Comments

Printing in WPF (XPS)

I wanted to print a visual out to an XPS file on a recent project, and couldn't find the code to do it. Anyway I eventually found it so I thought I'd post it. You need references to ReachFramework and System.Printing. using System.Windows.Xps.Packaging; Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 11, 2006 9:03 PM by ptallett | 2 Comments

New CodeProject article

I just finished an article on dragging and dropping files into Windows Explorer that I've posted on CodeProject. I've been a member of CodeProject for years and I reckon its a great place to get code. I wanted a sample that allowed you to drag and drop Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 11, 2006 8:42 PM by ptallett | 1 Comments

BBC iMP at MIX 06

Got involved with building a WPF application to show off the BBC's Integrated Media Player (iMP). The idea is that if you miss a TV program on the BBC, you can download it to your PC and watch it up to a week afterwards. The project was a real success Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 08, 2006 3:05 PM by ptallett | 2 Comments

HMV Music download

I've just finished a project to do a music download service (a bit like iTunes) for HMV. HMV are one of the largest music retailers in the UK, with a strong presence in Japan and Canada. It was quite a lot of fun, although very short timescales. We started Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 05, 2006 9:35 PM by ptallett | 0 Comments

MediaElement not displaying video

I've been working with WPF (Avalon) recently and found some strangeness with the MediaElement control not displaying any video, or displaying a black screen or throwing a COM exception. Turns out you need to update dxva2.dll and evr.dll as they are not Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 02, 2006 10:42 PM by ptallett | 0 Comments

30" Dell Screen

I lashed out on a 30" Dell screen the other day. It is just great, and absolutely enormous! I still have some slight sparkling green dots on the display when showing some images, but I'm working with ATI to get that resolved. The screen has a res of 2560x1600 Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 02, 2006 10:39 PM by ptallett | 1 Comments
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