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December 2008 - Posts

Saturday, December 27, 2008 10:38 AM

TIP: Extract Audio from FLV files and save it to an MP3 file using FFmpeg

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.mp3>
Posted by saveenr | 2 Comments
Tuesday, December 23, 2008 12:24 AM

Up with Markdown as an Authoring format (or sample code for an IIS7 Markdown Handler)

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 and
Posted by saveenr | 1 Comments

Attachment(s): MarkDownHandler-(2008-12-23).zip
Sunday, December 21, 2008 11:20 AM

IronPython: Querying Windows Desktop Search

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("System.Data")
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Attachment(s): ironpython-windows-desktop-search-example-(2008-12-21).py
Monday, December 15, 2008 12:45 AM

C# Code Sample: Creating an Excel 2007 XML File from a DataTable object

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
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Monday, December 08, 2008 4:04 PM

UX: Tools for Software Archeology – Screenshots from GUIdebook

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
Posted by saveenr | 0 Comments
Wednesday, December 03, 2008 5:16 PM

Dynamics AX 2009: Preparing Role Center Deployment

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
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