RE: SCreen Recorder
Anthony It is way more capable than just screen recording, but VisioForge Video Capture SDK is .NET and works on Windows 7 and earlier. They have recently released Windows 8 specific products, too I think (Windows 8 has a lot of enhancements for easily capturing video, which aren't a part of .NET 4.5). Video Capture SDK .Net - http://visioforge.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=4630beb7920233d3d8e846 012id=c2f4059d35e=de60263324 http://visioforge.com/video-capture-sdk-net2.html It is easy enough to use. The free version will display a brand (no advertising), but the paid subscription is 250 Euro, frequent updates and enhancements. They have a number of related products. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of anthonyatsmall...@mail.com Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2013 8:08 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: SCreen Recorder Want something that is dotnet code..don't want to rely on windows 7 From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Preet Sangha Sent: Thursday, 28 November 2013 11:03 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: SCreen Recorder Can you use the built into windows (7+) Problem Steps Recorder? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8512730/how-to-integrate-problem-steps-re corder-psr-in-my-application On 28 November 2013 12:09, anthonyatsmall...@mail.com wrote: Anyone suggest a third party control or code to record screen video within an application? Anthony Salerno Melbourne StuffUps _ http://www.avast.com/ This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com/ http://www.avast.com/ -- regards, Preet, Overlooking the Ocean, Auckland _ http://www.avast.com/ This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus http://www.avast.com/ protection is active.
[OT] rules in Outlook.com
Testing my outlook.com Rule _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia
[OT] rules in Outlook.com (2)
Definitely not a programming question. Has anyone used outlook.com for email, and successfully constructed a rule that will file away emails from this list? Sender is ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com , so the 2 rules I constructed with its online tool were Move messages to OzDotNet if sender's address is ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Allowing a few hours for some mail to arrive, I find this isn't working. The destination folder exists, is spelled right. I have 4 or 5 other rules that do work, but the online outlook isn't as capable as the desktop in management, to be expected I guess. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia
RE: [OT] Facebook advertising
Ironically, when I go there I get a huge popup Ad in the middle of the screen that I have to dismiss. Greg, maybe that's ARN (IDG Communications) , if you're referring to what happens when you follow my link. As to what is actually at Syme, I have no idea. Did you try to connect to the site? But as a Melbourne-ite I thought you might wonder (as I do) about the origin of the name for this encrypted site: Syme - I immediately thought of David Syme, one-time editor / founder of The Age, etc (not sure exactly of his role). _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 12:37 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Facebook advertising Has this any chance of attracting enough people to survive? http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/533140/encrypted_social_network_vies_disgr untled_whatsapp_facebook_users/?utm_medium=newslettereid=-4152utm_source=d aily-pm-editionuid=8071 Encrypted social network vies for disgruntled WhatsApp, Facebook users (link http://bit.ly/1ja0ltB ) Ironically, when I go there I get a huge popup Ad in the middle of the screen that I have to dismiss. A encrypted social networking site, it's a great idea, but it's too late -- Greg
[OT] Syme
I followed the link in the ARN article https://getsyme.com/ , and interestingly it's available only if you're using a Chrome browser! Will you release Syme on other platforms? Syme will soon be available on Firefox and Safari in addition to Chrome. We will look into building mobile and desktop apps in the near future. Why the name? Syme is the name of a character from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Syme was vaporized by the Party because he remained a freethinking intellectual. Who's working on this? Syme's founders are Louis http://twitter.com/louismullie , Jon http://twitter.com/jonhershon and Chris http://twitter.com/chris_marois . We're a three-person team based in Montreal, Canada. And they use twitter, facebook, etc to advertise their project. open source, code at github. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia
WP8 - File manager/explorer?
Is there a file explorer / file manager available for WP8, Nokia Lumia flavour (820-920-925-etc)? I know that it's easy to connect via their USB cable to a Windows PC and do it, but I am looking for something that runs on the device itself. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia
Windows Phone list?
I think there is an Australian Windows Phone dev list. Can someone give me a link, please? _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia
RE: Windows Phone list?
Ok, I have joined the WP list so that makes 23 inactive members! The Windows Phone Developer Community site looks like a useful site for resources. Thanks, Andrew. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA) Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 10:15 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Windows Phone list? Cool – will also promote to the Windows Phone Developer Community ( http://wp.msdeveloper.com.au http://wp.msdeveloper.com.au) Cheers, Andrew Coates, ME, MCPD, MCSD MCTS, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, 1 Epping Road, NORTH RYDE NSW 2113 Ph: +61 (2) 9870 2719 • Mob +61 (416) 134 993 • Fax: +61 (2) 9870 2400 • http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat Sent from the http://office.com/preview new Office
RE: Windows Phone list?
I did consider asking WP8 questions on OzDotNet, of course. Do WP devs have hobbies? _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 12:25 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Windows Phone list? I want a list for xaml designers who have basket weaving and blythe doll photography as hobbies. On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:14 PM, osjasonrobe...@gmail.com wrote: Also joined Is there a list for AUS Windows 8 Store app devs? Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts From: ILT (O) mailto:il.tho...@outlook.com Sent: Tuesday, 21 January 2014 10:58 AM To: ozDotNet mailto:ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Ok, I have joined the WP list so that makes 23 inactive members! The Windows Phone Developer Community site looks like a useful site for resources. Thanks, Andrew. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA) Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 10:15 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Windows Phone list? Cool – will also promote to the Windows Phone Developer Community ( http://wp.msdeveloper.com.au http://wp.msdeveloper.com.au) Cheers, Andrew Coates, ME, MCPD, MCSD MCTS, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, 1 Epping Road, NORTH RYDE NSW 2113 Ph: +61 (2) 9870 2719 tel:%2B61%20%282%29%209870%202719 • Mob +61 (416) 134 993 tel:%2B61%20%28416%29%20134%20993 • Fax: +61 (2) 9870 2400 tel:%2B61%20%282%29%209870%202400 • http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat Sent from the http://office.com/preview new Office
[OT] WP developers
Being largely (?totally) ignorant of the WP development scene, I was pleased to discover an application that purports to collate Australian-developed applications for Windows Phone devices. I have a Nokia Lumia 920 (WP8) - having resisted for years buying or even using so-called smartphones. Finding a weather app that uses Australian BOM information was really hit-and-miss for me at Nokia Store and the WindowsPhone store. This catalogue has 400 apps, 135 publishers (it may be out-of-date, or a small sampling of what is available, but discoverability is key). The app is called Developed Down Under. There is a user-group WPDownUnder (http://www.wpdownunder.com/) and a company/developer mobilewares.net that produced this. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia
RE: Today was very quiet on ozdotnet ...
46 years old, 22 with Microsoft – and his experience within MS is quite impressive. I think he’s an excellent choice. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 8:10 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Today was very quiet on ozdotnet ... On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:03 PM, anthonyatsmall...@mail.com wrote: Maybe everyone is selling their stocks! Don't reckon he was a good choice? I thought they did extremely well for an internal candidate. David.
RE: Today was very quiet on ozdotnet ...
I read about 8-10 “IT press” articles about Nadella yesterday, and a few are looking for the controversy – usual for any media reporting, I suppose. Additionally, it’s ramping up significantly in areas that Anthony identified as “the future” (e.g. cloud-based products/services) As I read it, Nadella’s roles over the past few years have been achieving exactly that. To use the acronyms - PaaS, IaaS and SaaS. Equally interesting is his emphasis (in all the snippets of interviews that I have seen) on devices. And I don’t believe that he is defing devices as narrowly as tablets and phones, Surface and Windows Phone. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 6:50 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Today was very quiet on ozdotnet ... On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:33 PM, ILT (O) il.tho...@outlook.com wrote: 46 years old, 22 with Microsoft – and his experience within MS is quite impressive. I think he’s an excellent choice. Have a read of this: http://gigaom.com/2014/01/31/the-gigaom-interview-a-chat-with-microsofts-satya-nadella-from-before-he-was-the-likely-next-ceo/ He seems pretty considered and thoughtful. I don't think we'll be seeing any more monkey boy dances, that's for sure. David Connors mailto:da...@connors.com da...@connors.com | M +61 417 189 363 Download my v-card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Follow me on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davidconnors Connect with me on LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors
RE: Today was very quiet on ozdotnet ...
Stephen, remind me: what is your 8 tablet? And why did you choose the 6 Lumia phone (1320), over say the 920/925 or the 1020? _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 2:09 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Today was very quiet on ozdotnet ... Personally, I don't care what's on my phone. Its all just a mirror of whats in the cloud anyway. I could destroy my phone (or lose it) and wouldn't lose anything except for the device itself. The whole thing about whats better is all well and good. I like there are multiple platforms, it keeps everyone trying. They all get better over time and everyone wins. Right now i'm 100% Microsoft devices (still have a couple of Android devices that are still current but hardly use them). That may well change in the future, I won't promise anything. Friend of mine spec'd up a fancy gaming laptop ($8000 worth) and I said, specs sound pretty good but if you spend the $8k now it will be worth $1k in 1 to 2 years. Which is exciting because it means in a couple of years the power of devices will be another leap on what they are. Exciting times. My favourite device is still my 8 tablet with windows 8.1 on it. So sweet being able to carry around a computer not much larger than my phone (remember I have a 6 phone lol) that can be plugged into screen and keyboard and function like a full PC. It makes me want to squeel with glee. :) On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: From the earlier link (about 1/3 of the way down) Notes * Your phone will wait for a WiFi connection to automatically save backups. If you don't connect to WiFi for a week, any changes to your App list and settings will be saved using a mobile data connection. * Backup saves the apps on your phone, but it doesn't save any data associated with the apps. * Start will reset to its default set of pinned Tiles when you restore. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Chere Sent: Friday, 7 February 2014 4:18 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Today was very quiet on ozdotnet ... Looking further into the WP8 backup, this paints an even worse picture than I'd imagined: http://allaboutwindowsphone.com/features/item/16663_When_is_a_backup_not_a_b ackup_.php
RE: Today was very quiet on ozdotnet ...
You must have the Lumia 1520 (better screen, SD card, more storage). What options did you add to the Dell Venue 8 – keyboard on the 64Gb, I guess – what else? _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2014 10:29 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Today was very quiet on ozdotnet ... Dell venue 8. The Nokia was an impulse buy. I had a 920 for a while but switched to android. When I saw the new 6 inch I thought I'd give it another shot. Its improved a lot and the screen is really nice. Happy until my next impulse switch Sent from Windows Mail From: ILT (O) mailto:il.tho...@outlook.com Sent: Saturday, 8 February 2014 1:53 PM To: ozDotNet mailto:ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Stephen, remind me: what is your 8” tablet? And why did you choose the 6” Lumia phone (1320), over say the 920/925 or the 1020? _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 2:09 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Today was very quiet on ozdotnet ... Personally, I don't care what's on my phone. Its all just a mirror of whats in the cloud anyway. I could destroy my phone (or lose it) and wouldn't lose anything except for the device itself. The whole thing about whats better is all well and good. I like there are multiple platforms, it keeps everyone trying. They all get better over time and everyone wins. Right now i'm 100% Microsoft devices (still have a couple of Android devices that are still current but hardly use them). That may well change in the future, I won't promise anything. Friend of mine spec'd up a fancy gaming laptop ($8000 worth) and I said, specs sound pretty good but if you spend the $8k now it will be worth $1k in 1 to 2 years. Which is exciting because it means in a couple of years the power of devices will be another leap on what they are. Exciting times. My favourite device is still my 8 tablet with windows 8.1 on it. So sweet being able to carry around a computer not much larger than my phone (remember I have a 6 phone lol) that can be plugged into screen and keyboard and function like a full PC. It makes me want to squeel with glee. :) On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: From the earlier link (about 1/3 of the way down) Notes * Your phone will wait for a WiFi connection to automatically save backups. If you don't connect to WiFi for a week, any changes to your App list and settings will be saved using a mobile data connection. * Backup saves the apps on your phone, but it doesn't save any data associated with the apps. * Start will reset to its default set of pinned Tiles when you restore. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Chere Sent: Friday, 7 February 2014 4:18 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Today was very quiet on ozdotnet ... Looking further into the WP8 backup, this paints an even worse picture than I’d imagined: http://allaboutwindowsphone.com/features/item/16663_When_is_a_backup_not_a_backup_.php
Advice to Microsoft (not mine - the IT press and developer blogosphere)
Silverlight end-of-life is a widely-felt gripe with developers, from my reading (eg, just today - Visual Studio Magazine - Satya Nadella's To-Do List [link http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2014/02/11/satya-nadellas-to-do-li st.aspx ] - Andrew Brust). There are several offerings of advice to the new CEO, and to Scott Guthrie as interim head of Enterprise and Cloud at Microsoft. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 2:49 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Migrating TFS Greg? Where are you? This is your cue. Ah! What! I'm awake ... I saw Silverlight mentioned as dead and abandoned. Guess what I've been doing all day today .. expanding a large Silverlight 5 app. We have no alternative, we've spent years developing the app and it's in use by some gigantic companies internationally. What the hell else can we do? Seriously! Discussion here last year pointed out that HTML5 is the only alternative to delivering rich apps on the browser desktop, but it groans under stress and I was warned that it just can't show attractive interactive charts of the type available with the ComponentOne SL libraries. Also, I have subscribed to MSDN Magazine (MSJ as it was) since 1993 and I agree that it is generally uninteresting these days because it's mostly about JavaScript, Stores, Azure, Windows RT and Windows 8 (the latest groovy stuff you're talking about). I find I flip through new issues and chuck them aside. I like academic articles, but Petzold's and McCaffrey's articles are so abstract they're in the twilight zone. My day to day development experience is consistently as infuriating and unpredictable as ever. Projects won't build, IIS goes haywire with code 500s, versions clash, dependencies are all over the shop, kits don't work, samples are simplistic, designers crash, I'm coding XAML UIs by hand, I have to learn WiX, I have to run VS2013 and VS2012 side by side due to COM problems, my VS2013 is diseased, and so on. I get up in the morning and the things that worked the night before are all on the fritz. Sometimes I miss punch cards. However, I don't want to fuel the jovial atmosphere of impending doom that pervades this forum ;-) Greg
RE: Advice to Microsoft (not mine - the IT press and developer blogosphere)
I wasn’t aware that Scott Guthrie had responsibility for Silverlight and XAML initially. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 12:28 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Advice to Microsoft (not mine - the IT press and developer blogosphere) inline (but not const) On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 7:19 PM, ILT (O) il.tho...@outlook.com wrote: Silverlight “end-of-life” is a widely-felt gripe with developers, from my reading (eg, just today – Visual Studio Magazine – “Satya Nadella's To-Do List” [link http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2014/02/11/satya-nadellas-to-do-list.aspx ] – Andrew Brust). There are several offerings of advice to the new CEO, and to Scott Guthrie as interim head of Enterprise and Cloud at Microsoft. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 2:49 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Migrating TFS Greg? Where are you? This is your cue. Ah! What! I'm awake ... I saw Silverlight mentioned as dead and abandoned. Guess what I've been doing all day today .. expanding a large Silverlight 5 app. We have no alternative, we've spent years developing the app and it's in use by some gigantic companies internationally. So is COBOL and FORTRAN What the hell else can we do? Seriously! Discussion here last year pointed out that HTML5 is the only alternative to delivering rich apps on the browser desktop, but it groans under stress and I was warned that it just can't show attractive interactive charts of the type available with the ComponentOne SL libraries. Hope that MS are feeling nice and release it to SourceForge. Also, I have subscribed to MSDN Magazine (MSJ as it was) since 1993 and I agree that it is generally uninteresting these days because it's mostly about JavaScript, Stores, Azure, Windows RT and Windows 8 (the latest groovy stuff you're talking about). I find I flip through new issues and chuck them aside. I like academic articles, but Petzold's and McCaffrey's articles are so abstract they're in the twilight zone. MSJ - used to be a good magazine. Matt Pietrek, Paul DiLascia ( If this code works, it was written by Paul DiLascia. If not, I don't know who wrote it.) were awesome. It's a puff piece now. My day to day development experience is consistently as infuriating and unpredictable as ever. Projects won't build, IIS goes haywire with code 500s, versions clash, dependencies are all over the shop, kits don't work, samples are simplistic, designers crash, I'm coding XAML UIs by hand, I have to learn WiX, I have to run VS2013 and VS2012 side by side due to COM problems, my VS2013 is diseased, and so on. I get up in the morning and the things that worked the night before are all on the fritz. Sometimes I miss punch cards. Wix, damnable stuff makes your eyes bleed to read it. However, I don't want to fuel the jovial atmosphere of impending doom that pervades this forum ;-) Greg -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough - Adam Hills
[OT] Anyone encountered NationZoom?
As I have lost my access to the SMBiT Professionals email lists, I thought someone on this one might have an idea of how to remove the browser hijacker browserzoom. A friend has the problem - his laptop was infected in India, apparently. I gather that it is some sort of music downloader, but infects / hijacks browsers. I'm not sure what browser he has installed on his laptop, though (perhaps several). He has Norton AV on his system, and mentioned some Microsoft utility - but these don't work / don't detect it (I'm not sure). _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia
RE: [OT] Anyone encountered NationZoom?
Sorry, Ken - my typo - NationZoom as the subject says - not browserzoom as in my first line. I'll take a look at bleeping and see what's needed with Malwarebytes. Thx _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 1:24 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] Anyone encountered NationZoom? I can't find any hits for browserzoom, but there is a relatively common piece of malware called Nationzoom. Perhaps that it what your friend has? If so, Malware Bytes will remove it (according to the instructions at: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-nationzoom.com-browser- hijacker) Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of ILT (O) Sent: Thursday, 13 February 2014 3:57 PM To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: [OT] Anyone encountered NationZoom? As I have lost my access to the SMBiT Professionals email lists, I thought someone on this one might have an idea of how to remove the browser hijacker browserzoom. A friend has the problem - his laptop was infected in India, apparently. I gather that it is some sort of music downloader, but infects / hijacks browsers. I'm not sure what browser he has installed on his laptop, though (perhaps several). He has Norton AV on his system, and mentioned some Microsoft utility - but these don't work / don't detect it (I'm not sure). _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia
[OT] WindowsRT the new Silverlight? and Windows 9 - a triumvirate of products
I have noticed in a few places discussions comparing the UI and API of WinRT with Silverlight, and suggesting that it (WinRT) is preferable. Mostly, these were quite old posts (a series of 6 or more at SharpGIS was my first sense of this). It does raise the possibility that Windows / Microsoft will rebirth or rethink some technologies. Related (in my eyes, anyway), apparently there is a wider discussion about Windows 9 (based on leaks and conjecture) suggesting that there is to be a complete rethink of Windows market segments in Windows 9 Threshold. It's summarised here http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/cause-hope-windows-8-gets-the- heave-ho-in-the-next-wave-of-updates-232389 in InfoWorld (December 2013) in an article by some bloke named Woody Leonhard. He sets the tone in his first sentence: If independent leaks are to be believed, Windows chief Terry Myerson appears to be dismantling the Jekyll-and-Hyde monstrosity that is Windows 8, instead replacing it with a triumvirate of products http://www.infoworld.com/d/microsoft-windows/microsoft-exec-hints-separate- windows-release-trains-consumers-business-232299 that people and companies will actually want. I'll be interested in Scott's comments on the triumverate of products, including the quote that refers to Terry Myerson's supposed intentions. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia
RE: [OT] WindowsRT the new Silverlight? and Windows 9 - a triumvirate of products
into meaningful pieces that can essentially tap into the above behaviours. The article is right, you have really three options - fade out you core business (enterprise) and go full retard on consumers adoption, reverse the namespace/SDK engines and build a bridge between old and new but lose what small foothold you have on consumers - or - abandon consumer focus and retreat back to safety around enterprise/small business. I'd place my money on the 2nd option, bridge building but that's going to be filled with a lot of apologies and the only way they can even attempt to make that work is to ramp up their DPE practices beyond where it is today (that is a lot of people on a lot of planes, apologising and seeding a new/existing audience with solutions). The head of DPE (former CEO of Skype) is a business development numbers guy who clearly has no real passion for DPE, so i don't see how even if they find a way to build that bridge can make that happen (it's an attitude issue as well as a technical one). Building a bridge between old and new is not as scary as one would assume (well i dont anyway), there is a lot of positive work put into the Windows 8 SDK's .. i don't think anyone can say outloud that Microsoft doesn't get their shit together technically when given the chance, there is and has always been more positives in their technical abilities than negatives - it just always always always comes down to the way in which they deliver the message and react to developer/customer issues of the day. Is it really a case of just refactoring Windows 8 namepsaces or proxy classes of some sort to convince Developers to continue on WPF/Silverlight path? ... Is it a matter of just investing more in that devigner tooling problem (Expression Blend makes a comeback but with less reliance of reflection based property grids). *shrug* .. i can personally see a way they could rebuild and get on with the Windows 9 approach and I don't think it requires a radical overhaul but more architectural common sense. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 9:30 PM, ILT (O) il.tho...@outlook.com wrote: I have noticed in a few places discussions comparing the UI and API of WinRT with Silverlight, and suggesting that it (WinRT) is preferable. Mostly, these were quite old posts (a series of 6 or more at SharpGIS was my first sense of this). It does raise the possibility that Windows / Microsoft will rebirth or rethink some technologies. Related (in my eyes, anyway), apparently there is a wider discussion about Windows 9 (based on leaks and conjecture) suggesting that there is to be a complete rethink of Windows market segments in Windows 9 Threshold. It's summarised here http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/cause-hope-windows-8-gets-the- heave-ho-in-the-next-wave-of-updates-232389 in InfoWorld (December 2013) in an article by some bloke named Woody Leonhard. He sets the tone in his first sentence: If independent leaks are to be believed, Windows chief Terry Myerson appears to be dismantling the Jekyll-and-Hyde monstrosity that is Windows 8, instead replacing it with a triumvirate of products http://www.infoworld.com/d/microsoft-windows/microsoft-exec-hints-separate- windows-release-trains-consumers-business-232299 that people and companies will actually want. I'll be interested in Scott's comments on the triumverate of products, including the quote that refers to Terry Myerson's supposed intentions. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia
RE: [OT] TortoiseHG not under root error
This, from 2010, indicates that many culprit processes have a similar effect, eg Windows indexing and on-access virus checking. https://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/hgtk/issue/1323/question-mark-overlay-icon-shown-on-folder That seems similar to me, probably never fixed. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 3:21 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] TortoiseHG not under root error Perhaps you have a file open in a viewer? This was a reported error in 2008 (Sourceforge), no reported fix I could find. Ian Thomas Sent from my Windows Phone _ From: Greg Keogh mailto:g...@mira.net Sent: 6/03/2014 14:11 To: ozDotNet mailto:ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: [OT] TortoiseHG not under root error If there are any experienced users of TortoiseHG here I'd like to ask them if they know of this problem and a way to fix it: Right-clicking a file in the TortoiseHG UI and selecting Add or Forget popups a dialog telling me: Filename not under root Folder. If I use the equivalent context menu from Windows Explorer the commands work and refreshing the TortoiseHG UI shows me the changes. Web searches produce no useful information on this problem. I have no idea what started this, as I haven't run any upgrades or moved folders or done other suspicious things, the problem just started one morning a couple of weeks ago. It's driving me barking mad. Greg K
RE: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro
Mac Pro - $10K? I don’t know if it’s true, but I heard some time back that some developers had bought MacBook Pro for its hardware, removed the Apple OS and installed Windows 7. Apocryphal? I know a 14yo who uses his mother’s desktop Mac (one of those things that has everthing behind its screen) with Parallels – it performed well enough for the commercial Windows games he’s allowed to have, but it took a bit of stuffing about with DVD drivers as I recall. December 2012. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 2:30 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro Do you mean Mac Book Pro or Mac Pro - that heniously expensive cylinder they're releasing? Apple have a thing called BootCamp that dual boots into Windows, loads all the right drivers and so on. David Connors mailto:da...@connors.com da...@connors.com | M +61 417 189 363 Download my v-card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Follow me on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davidconnors Connect with me on LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Bill McCarthy bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au wrote: I remember someone on one of these lists was using it day to day. Just concerned about stability, display drivers etc. |-Original Message- |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Corneliu I. Tusnea |Sent: Thursday, 20 March 2014 5:13 PM |To: ozDotNet |Subject: Re: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro | |I just saw a MacPro running WindowsXP this morning on the train. If that works .. |anything will work :) | |As long as you can live with the keyboard and with heaps of missing keys the rest |should be ok ... | | |On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Bill McCarthy |bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au wrote: | | | Hi, | | Any of you guys run windows on a mac pro? What is needed ? Any issues |? | | Thanks | | |
RE: [OT] Password hash cracking
Grant, re Password Safe (etc) - I was using RoboForm on $9.95 a year and they have just released a version for Windows Phone 8, but I have let it lapse. I would rather back up my pw database to OneDrive than have RoboForm manage it at their site, for some reason. Have you see any comparison of Password Safe with RoboForm? It seems the Password Safe Sourceforge dev project isn't interested in a WP8 version. I would like to use the same application across the different platforms. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Grant Maw Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 8:08 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Password hash cracking Or, just use Schneier's Password Safe program and let it generate all your passwords for you. I've been using it for years and I swear by it. I have hundreds of passwords stored in it's files and they're all long and very complex. http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/ On 22 March 2014 16:08, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Folks, in Bruce Schneier's latest newsletter https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-1403.html there is a section at the end where he discusses the vulnerability of passwords. One of the links is to this interesting and frightening article: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of -your-passwords/ The hashes in this cracking test were made with plain old MD5, but even ignoring that, it's a sobering reminder of the progress in guessing and cracking hashed passwords. I was surprised to learn that salting the hashes doesn't offer much defence. I was amazed that they were using GPUs for hashing and a graph shows that they're faster than CPUs ... is that possible? After this I think the lessons are: * Schneier suggests you make passwords out of pieces of words and sentences to avoid predictable formats. * Use a more recent and computationally intensive hasher. * Don't let anyone steal your hashes. * Don't store the whole hash (I learned in Russinovich's book that msv1_0 http://dll.paretologic.com/detail.php/msv1_0 .dll only stores half a user's hash in the registry). Greg K
RE: [OT] Password hash cracking
Greg, did you follow up on the (promised) article in arstechnica on how to do it properly? I couldn't find one . The closest relevant advice (for users) was to use a password minder, but I guess that doesn't help if the visited passworded websites store unsafely. (I see that iiNet pops up a warning when customers have unsafe passwords, and offer to generate a better on using their online tool. I would assume quite a few subscribers to this list work for enterprises that use the better methodologies) _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 2:09 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: [OT] Password hash cracking Folks, in Bruce Schneier's latest newsletter https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-1403.html there is a section at the end where he discusses the vulnerability of passwords. One of the links is to this interesting and frightening article: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of -your-passwords/ The hashes in this cracking test were made with plain old MD5, but even ignoring that, it's a sobering reminder of the progress in guessing and cracking hashed passwords. I was surprised to learn that salting the hashes doesn't offer much defence. I was amazed that they were using GPUs for hashing and a graph shows that they're faster than CPUs ... is that possible? After this I think the lessons are: * Schneier suggests you make passwords out of pieces of words and sentences to avoid predictable formats. * Use a more recent and computationally intensive hasher. * Don't let anyone steal your hashes. * Don't store the whole hash (I learned in Russinovich's book that msv1_0 http://dll.paretologic.com/detail.php/msv1_0 .dll only stores half a user's hash in the registry). Greg K
RE: [OT] Password hash cracking
Nathan, I had never considered Keepass though have seen it discussed etc for years. I have often used TrueCrypt USB 'disks' (sticks) when travelling, I guess what you're doing with a TrueCrypt file on Dropbox is much the same. I would like to see this a bit more automatic as a backup for password database, though. Is anyone using 7Pass? (The WP7 version of Keepass, for which it seems v3.6 is OK for WP7.8 and WP8 - ?) _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Chere Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 9:29 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] Password hash cracking I used to use Password Safe and there's a pretty good .Net implementation of the password store reader on CodeProject http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/20892/Password-Safe-Database-Reader-Lib rary-in-C-for-NET if you want to extend its usefulness yourself. That said, I now use Keepass and have no regrets: http://keepass.info/ It's also open source but has a much more active dev community around it than SPS, the downloads page has ports to virtually any platform you could possibly want, and there's a well-designed plugin system which lets you do things like near transparently replace the Firefox or Chrome saved password functionality with Keepass. I run a portable instance in a TrueCrypt disk saved on Dropbox so I have online sync without the usual concerns. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of ILT (O) Sent: Monday, 24 March 2014 12:23 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: [OT] Password hash cracking Grant, re Password Safe (etc) - I was using RoboForm on $9.95 a year and they have just released a version for Windows Phone 8, but I have let it lapse. I would rather back up my pw database to OneDrive than have RoboForm manage it at their site, for some reason. Have you see any comparison of Password Safe with RoboForm? It seems the Password Safe Sourceforge dev project isn't interested in a WP8 version. I would like to use the same application across the different platforms. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Grant Maw Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 8:08 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Password hash cracking Or, just use Schneier's Password Safe program and let it generate all your passwords for you. I've been using it for years and I swear by it. I have hundreds of passwords stored in it's files and they're all long and very complex. http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/ On 22 March 2014 16:08, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Folks, in Bruce Schneier's latest newsletter https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-1403.html there is a section at the end where he discusses the vulnerability of passwords. One of the links is to this interesting and frightening article: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of -your-passwords/ The hashes in this cracking test were made with plain old MD5, but even ignoring that, it's a sobering reminder of the progress in guessing and cracking hashed passwords. I was surprised to learn that salting the hashes doesn't offer much defence. I was amazed that they were using GPUs for hashing and a graph shows that they're faster than CPUs ... is that possible? After this I think the lessons are: * Schneier suggests you make passwords out of pieces of words and sentences to avoid predictable formats. * Use a more recent and computationally intensive hasher. * Don't let anyone steal your hashes. * Don't store the whole hash (I learned in Russinovich's book that msv1_0 http://dll.paretologic.com/detail.php/msv1_0 .dll only stores half a user's hash in the registry). Greg K Click here https://www.mailcontrol.com/sr/MZbqvYs5QwJvpeaetUwhCQ== to report this email as spam. This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. http://www.websense.com/ www.websense.com
RE: [OT] Password hash cracking
OK, I'm way off-topic here with the WP tangent anyway. What I did find lately was a WP8 [1] and Windows 8 / Windows RT [2] password management application written by Ginny Caughey, called Password Padlock (there's also another of that same name, written by a NZ dev). [1 http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/password-padlock/edbf1d8f-7ad5- df11-a844-00237de2db9e ] [2 http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en/app/password-padlock/de8a7dc4-beb3-4d4 d-8b00-def5cc6a1182/m/ROW ] _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Grant Maw Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 10:48 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Password hash cracking Ian I use Password Safe on Windows 8 but not on a phone, and you are right they don't seem interested in a WP8 version. Sorry, I've not seen any comparisons between PWSafe and others. I've been using PWSafe since its very early versions and never bothered looking elsewhere. G On 24 March 2014 11:23, ILT (O) il.tho...@outlook.com wrote: Grant, re Password Safe (etc) - I was using RoboForm on $9.95 a year and they have just released a version for Windows Phone 8, but I have let it lapse. I would rather back up my pw database to OneDrive than have RoboForm manage it at their site, for some reason. Have you see any comparison of Password Safe with RoboForm? It seems the Password Safe Sourceforge dev project isn't interested in a WP8 version. I would like to use the same application across the different platforms. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Grant Maw Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 8:08 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Password hash cracking Or, just use Schneier's Password Safe program and let it generate all your passwords for you. I've been using it for years and I swear by it. I have hundreds of passwords stored in it's files and they're all long and very complex. http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/ On 22 March 2014 16:08, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Folks, in Bruce Schneier's latest newsletter https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-1403.html there is a section at the end where he discusses the vulnerability of passwords. One of the links is to this interesting and frightening article: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of -your-passwords/ The hashes in this cracking test were made with plain old MD5, but even ignoring that, it's a sobering reminder of the progress in guessing and cracking hashed passwords. I was surprised to learn that salting the hashes doesn't offer much defence. I was amazed that they were using GPUs for hashing and a graph shows that they're faster than CPUs ... is that possible? After this I think the lessons are: * Schneier suggests you make passwords out of pieces of words and sentences to avoid predictable formats. * Use a more recent and computationally intensive hasher. * Don't let anyone steal your hashes. * Don't store the whole hash (I learned in Russinovich's book that msv1_0 http://dll.paretologic.com/detail.php/msv1_0 .dll only stores half a user's hash in the registry). Greg K
RE: [OT] Weird symptoms and SSD
SandForce is not SanDisk (SanForce has been acquired by LSI, anyway). I’m not sure who manufactured for SandForce – they are described as a fabless manufacturing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabless_semiconductor_company company. (that’s not fabulous J ) Look them up on Wikipedia. I don’t know where the components for your particular SanDisk SSD were made. It is interesting that the latest supercomputers, just funded by US government bodies, have been designed to use massive amounts of RAM (SSD) rather than an ever-increasing CPU count. It seems to indicate that there are SSDs and SSDs (and probably, controllers). _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 12:16 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Weird symptoms and SSD Chaps, it's a SanDisk 240MB, which is suspicious regarding your comments! I just went up to MSY and got a replacement, a Kingston this time, not another SanDisk. The shop guy said they'll send the SSD back to be analysed and either repaired or replaced. I told him it was my C: drive so I'll have to reinstall before I can give him the old one. After reading some technical stuff on SSDs several weeks ago and how they work and wear-levelling and the like I became a bit worried and moved the swap file to a HDD in an attempt to cut down the writes. It's actually a bit worrying how SSDs work when you look into them. If the C: drive can stay on life support until the weekend I'll be happy. Luckily the main work I'm on at the moment is inside a VM on a HDD D: drive. Greg On 25 March 2014 14:50, ben.robb...@jlta.com.au wrote: My guess is a drive based on a SandForce controller. You’ve described the symptoms I had before my SandForce SDD died a couple of years ago. I was going to replace it with a newer SandForce drive until I Googled a bit and then opted to go with an Intel 510 which used a Marvell controller and have had no problems with it. I’d back up everything you want to keep that is on that drive ASAP. Ben From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of GregAtGregLowDotCom Sent: Tuesday, 25 March 2014 11:26 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] Weird symptoms and SSD Hi Greg, Always horrible to hear that. What sort of drive was it? Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: http://www.sqldownunder.com/ www.sqldownunder.com From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Tuesday, 25 March 2014 2:00 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: [OT] Weird symptoms and SSD Folks, I have a warning post: Since I installed a fresh Windows 7 on an SSD as Xmas I've been suspicious of how one time in 20 it will stop and say Bad boot drive and I have to power off and on again and then it always starts okay. No other symptoms have been observed. Well today, I was shutting down my PC when it blue screened on the way down, it said SERVICE_EXCEPTION. Just to be safe I rebooted it normally to check it was okay. First problem. IE 32-bit shortcut says it's invalid, but I can see the iexplore.exe in the correct place. Double-clicking it does nothing. The 64-bit iexplore.exe tells me The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. Then I notice most of my Start menu All Programs are gone. The Administrative Tools menu is empty. I searched for an hour but none of the advice is relevant or useful. Last known good config recover did nothing. I even thought I had a virus, but found no evidence. Finally I did a chkdsk C: /F and rebooted and I saw about 20 repairs (including iexplore.exe) and now it seems to be back to normal. However I suspect the SSD is about to die unpredictably and all of my mysterious symptoms were side effects. I'm just posting this in case it might be useful for someone in a similar situation. Now I'm going to the shops to get a new SSD and psych myself up for a possible Windows reinstall over the whole weekend. At Xmas it took 4 x 12 hour days to get to a satisfactory working state. Greg K This email is intended for the named recipient only. The information it contains may be confidential or commercially sensitive. If you are not the intended recipient you must not reproduce or distribute any part of this email, disclose its contents to any other party, or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the message from your computer.
RE: Spreadsheets and data
Stephen, there are at least 2 (not-free, expensive) .NET libraries that do a good job of being a spreadsheet, but I don't know if either can simply scan an existing Excel spreadsheet ecosystem or even a simple XLS or XLSX file to make it into an application. For your simple description, it may well be that there is a Codeplex project does those straight-forward non-recursive operations, perhaps with a few simple Excel-like functions. I would doubt that such a project or code library would handle anything more like most businesses' use of Excel. Unless you want to make a VSTO application? _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 3:03 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Spreadsheets and data Hey all, Wondering if anyone has taken a spreadsheet and turned it into an app before? This spreadsheet has lots of data that used the previous row to calculate the new row's data (as spreadsheets often do). Was wondering how the best way to duplicate that functionality in a .Net app with classes/database. Possible ways I've thought of; 1. Class that calculates on the fly the desired row/year of data each time it needs it. 2. The spreadsheet takes some starting values and the applies a formula to each row, could do the same thing in memory in a lookup dictionary or similar so it only needs to be done once. 3. Alternatively put that data into tables in database... downside, if the initial value is changed it would have to find and modify the appropriate rows in the database. other ways? cheers, Stephen
RE: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor
Yes, I know the pens have been around a while (several Android devices, Windows laptops) – I knew the battery as D425 (looked up: same as ). _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 8:48 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor It’s an N-Trig digitizer – they all use batteries. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: Thursday, 22 May 2014 9:25 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor The dock for Surface 3 will drive your 4K screen, and there's a gigabit Ethernet dongle. I'm impressed with reports on the pen / OneNote use (but battery?) Ian Thomas Sent from my Nokia Lumia 920 - Windows Phone 8 _ From: Stephen Price mailto:step...@perthprojects.com Sent: 22/05/2014 0:37 To: ozDotNet mailto:ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: Re: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor h don't encourage me like that!! i'm showing amazing restraint. except for the surface pro 3. sigh. On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Dave Walker rangitat...@gmail.com wrote: Do you need some enabling? You should buy one Stephen. Then tell the rest of us how it is for coding/etc. On 21 May 2014 18:38, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Yeah I've been looking at that monitor for a week now. Austin Computers has them in stock. http://www.austin.net.au/shop-categories/monitor/samsung-u28d590d-28-3840-x-2160-widescreen-le.html To be honest I'm not even sure why I don't have one now. Delaying the impulse buy as long as I can... :) On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Dave Walker rangitat...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone looking to get a U28D590D 4K / 3840 X 2160 monitor when they are released? Look pretty awesome.. http://www.samsung.com/levant/consumer/computers-peripherals/monitors/led-monitor/LU28D590DS/ZN
RE: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor
This N-Trig page shows which Windows devices use their gear: http://www.n-trig.com/Content.aspx?Page=Windows8 Anecdotally (sample size: 3) there have been driver problems. I also see some chatter on the web. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 9:48 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor N-Trig’s traditionally had a bad rap. I think the Sony Vaio Flip is the only mainstream laptop that uses their latest tech DuoSense 2. Dunno if the Surface 3 will have something newer/better, or DuoSense 2. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Thursday, 22 May 2014 11:41 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor Don't really like the batteries, my Dell Venue 8 has a pen that takes that and it only lasted 3 months. They were also *REALLY* hard to find a place that sell them and they don't have rechargables. At least I know where to get them so will buy a stack of them. I hope they didn't change from Wacom just for politics or whatever. ie a real reason to do so feature wise. I couldn't find anything about them tho. Anyone got any info on what N-Trig has over Wacom? On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:14 AM, ILT (O) il.tho...@outlook.com wrote: Yes, I know the pens have been around a while (several Android devices, Windows laptops) – I knew the battery as D425 (looked up: same as ). _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 8:48 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor It’s an N-Trig digitizer – they all use batteries. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: Thursday, 22 May 2014 9:25 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor The dock for Surface 3 will drive your 4K screen, and there's a gigabit Ethernet dongle. I'm impressed with reports on the pen / OneNote use (but battery?) Ian Thomas Sent from my Nokia Lumia 920 - Windows Phone 8 _ From: Stephen Price mailto:step...@perthprojects.com Sent: 22/05/2014 0:37 To: ozDotNet mailto:ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: Re: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor h don't encourage me like that!! i'm showing amazing restraint. except for the surface pro 3. sigh. On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Dave Walker rangitat...@gmail.com wrote: Do you need some enabling? You should buy one Stephen. Then tell the rest of us how it is for coding/etc. On 21 May 2014 18:38, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Yeah I've been looking at that monitor for a week now. Austin Computers has them in stock. http://www.austin.net.au/shop-categories/monitor/samsung-u28d590d-28-3840-x-2160-widescreen-le.html To be honest I'm not even sure why I don't have one now. Delaying the impulse buy as long as I can... :) On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Dave Walker rangitat...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone looking to get a U28D590D 4K / 3840 X 2160 monitor when they are released? Look pretty awesome.. http://www.samsung.com/levant/consumer/computers-peripherals/monitors/led-monitor/LU28D590DS/ZN
RE: [OT] Browser use
GregL - I thought I saw, 2-3 weeks/months ago? - that IE11 can be put into Edge Mode (IE8) – but of course that requires your visitors to be aware of that. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of GregAtGregLowDotCom Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 11:33 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: [OT] Browser use I never thought I’d change my default browser but I had to do so with IE11. Moved to using Chrome as a default. I eventually I got to a point where I just had to get things done and whether or not Microsoft believe they did the right thing by removing the agent string entries, they “broke the internet” for too many people. I don’t think they understood the politics of this. If someone is browsing ok, and updates to IE11 and then so many sites don’t work, they won’t blame the sites, they’ll blame what they just updated. There were lots of Microsoft’s own properties that wouldn’t work with IE11. You can’t even lodge a BAS return here in Australia with IE11 and if you talk to the ATO, they just say “Use Chrome”. Wish it wasn’t so. Last month was the first month where I noted more Chrome use than IE use at our web site, and we’re a Microsoft related site. That’s a big change for us from 6 months ago. It used to be an IE majority for us. Apart from the lack of compatibility with so many existing sites, I quite like many things about IE11. I just can’t get work done when it’s my default browser. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: http://www.sqldownunder.com/ www.sqldownunder.com From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of anthonyatsmall...@mail.com Sent: Thursday, 22 May 2014 11:23 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: [OT] Browser use Just want to spread my use of technology amongst many companies instead of a few…it also inspires competition and innovation. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Thursday, 22 May 2014 1:18 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Browser use So you would rather support a small non powerful company that uses your data any way they want? The underdog so to speak? Personally, I'd rather use the browser that does everything I want it to and none of the things I don't. Targeted advertising? Sure I want that. I *WANT* to see ads for the latest and greatest Tablet or Monitor. I *don't* want to see tampon ads. Sign me up. Shut up and take my money! If said company becomes an issue, I'll change. I'm a fickle customer, more so than they are. I'm using them more than they are using me. On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:25 AM, anthonyatsmall...@mail.com wrote: I use Firefox, Chrome is great but I do not want to support a company that is so powerful and use your data what ever way they want. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Craig van Nieuwkerk Sent: Thursday, 22 May 2014 12:06 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Browser use I am pretty much with you. I find IE works better with VS so use it for most development unless I need to do a lot of client side debugging in which case I use Chrome. I then use Chrome for everyday use. I only use Firefox for cross browser testing. Craig On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: I disagree. I think? I find I use Chrome and IE. For development it depends what I'm doing. If I want to hit a breakpoint in VS then IE does that. If I want to use the debugger in the browser then I use Chrome. IE keeps changing their Developer tools and even though they are improving I still find Chrome more productive for debugging. For actual USE I use Chrome for most things but occasionally something doesn't work right and I switch. Pluralsite for example seems to hang after a while in Chrome. No issues in IE. Not used Firefox in some years. Toggling between two is fine. A third becomes too much. On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:53 AM, David Burstin david.burs...@gmail.com wrote: I was using Firefox on some machines, but recently moved to Chrome as a political statement, not because I love Google but rather because I wanted to show my dissatisfaction with Firefox's political correctness/censorship http://readwrite.com/2014/04/03/brendan-eich-mozilla-resigns-ceo#awesm=~oEX2WzjEhsumsR . (And in case you were wondering, I do support marriage equality but even more than that I support peoples right to disagree with me. Agree?) On 22 May 2014 11:43, Bec Carter bec.usern...@gmail.com wrote: This thread got me wondering if anybody here actually uses a browser other than Chrome. By *use* I mean to personally browse and not to just test sites across
RE: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor
Now at $722 incl GST from NetPlus in Perth. Samsung U28D590DS/XY 28 http://www.netplus.com.au/newsletter.asp?action=productlinkdate=12.06.2014code=MNSAU28D590DS UHD _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Harris Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 1:54 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor DSE has them in stock for $699 (http://www.dicksmith.com.au/computer-monitors/samsung-28-uhd590-monitor-dsau-xc9312) Just got one off JW.com.au (http://www.jw.com.au/samsung-u28d590ds-28-ultrahd-1ms-4k-monitor-p-54326) who did a price match My laptop will not drive the full resolution, but it is worthwhile anyway... On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Just an update on this new Samsung 4k monitor (U28D590D), I used it in 2560x1440 for a while due to the fonts looking blurry and not being used to the small fonts. Few days ago, I tried it back in its native res and started getting used to it. I usually RDP to my laptop and spend most of my time there (which is where I was getting blurryness in Visual Studio). While RDP'ing to another laptop, I suddenly realised the fonts were crisp. That machine was on ethernet not wifi, comparing them side by side, the laptop on wifi was definitely blurry in comparison. Turned on the setting to force it to think it was on a LAN connection and reconnected. It's now crisp like the other machine. A lot happier now. (if somewhat sheepish it took me so long to twig what was going on). :) On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Or... buy two monitors! On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: It should easily pay for itself in its life span, as well as make you a happier developer, adding years to your life span and potential lifetime earnings. I say it's a bad business decision to NOT get it. Then the only answer is to buy one and use it in Hawaii -- Greg
Optus to sell Office365
I know the Small Business IT professionals groups around Australia have been p!ssed off with O365 sales being Telstra-controlled for so long, so this http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/cloud/optus-gearing-up-to-fight-telstra-on-mic rosoft-365-turf-20140623-zse9x.html announcement (SMH, today) is good news. Optus gearing up to fight Telstra on Microsoft 365 turf Optus is preparing to tread on Telstra's turf in the cloud computing market after securing a long overdue partnership with Microsoft. There's more interesting information in that SMH IT Pro article. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia
RE: Optus to sell Office365
Greg, I agree. Peripheral to the Office365 matter, I would like to see Microsoft with a more prominent marketing presence than has been so in the last many years. But not to the extent and manner of Apple Stores and the Genius Bar. Perhaps the 3-year deal with Telstra hinged on Telstra's large commitment to 'cloud' in Australia, a platform which did require some selling - as did software as a service. I know the SBIT Pro group members were annoyed at the Telstra-only model, and I don't think the addition of Optus would ameliorate that irritation. It was interesting to note the 1Tb cloud storage trumped by Google announcing 'unlimited'. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of GregAtGregLowDotCom Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2014 10:41 AM To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: RE: Optus to sell Office365 I don't want to see it forced through any reseller. I just want to have the option to deal directly with Microsoft. Other people in the loop just complicate support for me. I can do that with Google and with any number of other global providers, so why not Microsoft? If I was running a milk bar or a cafe, I might feel differently. Both options should be available (ie: dealing with a partner if you need that type of help, or not dealing with one if you don't need that type of help). And partners that push the products should be part of the ongoing return on the products. I used to like the model that some companies used when ADSL first appeared. Customers could deal directly with them if they wanted. Partners could be involved in getting people signed up, and if they did, they were part of the revenue stream from that point on (indefinitely in relation to those connections). Bottom line is that I shouldn't be penalised for being based in Australia. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: http://www.sqldownunder.com/ www.sqldownunder.com From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of ILT (O) Sent: Friday, 27 June 2014 7:56 PM To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: Optus to sell Office365 I know the Small Business IT professionals groups around Australia have been p!ssed off with O365 sales being Telstra-controlled for so long, so this http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/cloud/optus-gearing-up-to-fight-telstra-on-mic rosoft-365-turf-20140623-zse9x.html announcement (SMH, today) is good news. Optus gearing up to fight Telstra on Microsoft 365 turf Optus is preparing to tread on Telstra's turf in the cloud computing market after securing a long overdue partnership with Microsoft. There's more interesting information in that SMH IT Pro article. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia
Developing for multiple Windows versions
I've been reading some of the opinions from pundits in the IT press, such as Mary Jo Foley [1 http://www.zdnet.com/windows-threshold-more-on-microsofts-plan-to-win-over- windows-7-users-731070/ ]. In this quote, she's discussing the next Windows OS - assumed to be for 3 distinct platforms: desktop/laptop, 2-in-1 devices like Surface Pro, and tablet/phone. Threshold or Windows 9 are used interchangeably for the next Windows release after 8.1.1. The Threshold OS will look and work differently based on hardware type. Users running Threshold on a desktop/laptop will get a SKU, or version, that puts the Windows Desktop (for running Win32/legacy apps) front and center. Two-in-one devices, like the Lenovo Yoga or Surface Pro, will support switching between the Metro-Style mode and the Windowed mode, based on whether or not keyboards are connected or disconnected. The combined Phone/Tablet SKU of Threshold won't have a Desktop environment at all, but still will support apps running side by side, my sources are reconfirming. This Threshold Mobile SKU will work on ARM-based Windows Phones (not just Lumias), ARM-based Windows tablets and, I believe, Intel-Atom-based tablets. One of Microsoft's primary missions with Threshold is to try to undo the usability mistakes made with Windows 8 for those who prefer and/or are stuck with devices that are not touch-first and for which keyboard/mouse use is of central importance. A sensible enough vision, if true - certainly it is more palatable from a user's point of view (there are numerous articles that point out that desktop / tablet / phone devices are used differently, for different purposes - by the same individual, who may be predisposed towards on or other platform). And I think this insight or realisation by Microsoft (if that is what it is, as MJF and other media pundits like to say) may permit developers to focus more clearly on applications appropriate to these reasonably distinct Windows platforms. The Mary Jo Foley article is short, and of course has to throw in some of the attention-getting criticisms (Vista, start menu, etc) but this and other articles bring into focus some of the issues that forthcoming APIs need to address to bring this vision to reality. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia
OzDotnet problem or my Outlook problem?
Has anyone had this today? I just received 2 list emails from nobody, dated today - which is the exact content of one that I sent myself in late March this year. Either my desktop Outlook 2010 has screwed up indexes, or something's wrong at the OzDotnet email server. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia
RE: MSI failures
I haven’t used WiX for ages, but I think it does have come code tools and integrates into Visual Studio. Its project location is on CodePlex these days http://wix.codeplex.com/ _ Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Friday, October 03, 2014 10:13 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: MSI failures This is just a heads-up and I'm recording my own thoughts. I mentioned several weeks ago that setup projects (vdproj) support can return to VS2013 via the Installer Projects Extension http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/9abe329c-9bba-44a1-be59-0fbf6151054d . I was most pleased by this and have resurrected many setup projects and have been using them successfully ... until I tried them on Windows XP and Server 2003, which results in The installer was interrupted failure on the first wizard step. Examining an msiexec log shows DIRCA_CheckFX return value 3. Ensuring that Framework 4 and Installer 4.5 are present makes no difference. Extensive web searches reveal no useful advice, but there are a few hints that it's a bug in the setup project templates (which I think is feasible!). I used orca to disable the failing conditions inside the MSI's sequence tables and it got the wizard through to the 3rd wizard step, but then I received some weird entry point failure in InstallUtil. At this point I officially gave up. So I remain confused about the exact cause of this problem, or the cure: is it the old operating systems, some dependency, or a bug in the setup templates. Uh?! Maybe I should consider migrating permanently to WiX, which I'll do if I can find a nice GUI over it so I don't have to write XML by hand. Greg K P.S. Setup project generated web installers require IIS 6 metabase compatibility on if you're using IIS 7. This didn't wasn't relevant to my situation above, but it was worth mentioning as lots of people have stumbled over this subtle dependency when the installation fails with the same unhelpful interrupted failure.
RE: MSI failures
Greg K and others who might be interested - Oleg Shilo’s WixSharp / Wix# recently has been given a new feature, documented well with a CodeProject article. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/804584/Wixsharp-WixSharp-UI-Extensions “Wix# (WixSharp) UI Extensions” Taken from the most recent article: Wix# was first released and described in this CodeProject article: Wix# (WixSharp) - managed interface for WiX http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/31407/Wix-WixSharp-managed-interface-for-WiX . Wix# answers many MSI authoring challenges. It solves the common MSI/WiX authoring limitations in a very elegant and yet unorthodox way. Wix# follows the steps of other transcompilers like Script#, CoffeeScript or GWT by using source code of a more manageable syntax (C# in this case) to produce the desired source code of a less manageable syntax (WiX). A more manageable syntax in this context means less verbose and more readable code, better compile-time error checking and availability of more advanced tools. Also Wix# removes necessity to develop MSI sub-modules (Custom Actions) in the completely different language (e.g. C++) by allowing both the components and behavior to be defined in the same language (C#). This also allows homogeneous, simplified and more consistent source code structure. Despite of all this there is one category of the setup authoring problems that Wix# didn't address so far: MSI custom UI. The current article by Oleg Shilo in CodeProject addresses the remaining problem, using two approaches to UI. Both are described in the article, but this quote begins an explanation of the external UI approach – (it is) possible to implement fully isolated, self sufficient UI (with no MSI dependency) and connect it at runtime to the MSI engine running your MSI file. I’ll leave you to read the article and test the code, and the efficacy of WixSharp, for yourself/selves. _ Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Friday, October 03, 2014 10:13 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: MSI failures This is just a heads-up and I'm recording my own thoughts. I mentioned several weeks ago that setup projects (vdproj) support can return to VS2013 via the Installer Projects Extension http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/9abe329c-9bba-44a1-be59-0fbf6151054d . I was most pleased by this and have resurrected many setup projects and have been using them successfully ... until I tried them on Windows XP and Server 2003, which results in The installer was interrupted failure on the first wizard step. Examining an msiexec log shows DIRCA_CheckFX return value 3. Ensuring that Framework 4 and Installer 4.5 are present makes no difference. Extensive web searches reveal no useful advice, but there are a few hints that it's a bug in the setup project templates (which I think is feasible!). I used orca to disable the failing conditions inside the MSI's sequence tables and it got the wizard through to the 3rd wizard step, but then I received some weird entry point failure in InstallUtil. At this point I officially gave up. So I remain confused about the exact cause of this problem, or the cure: is it the old operating systems, some dependency, or a bug in the setup templates. Uh?! Maybe I should consider migrating permanently to WiX, which I'll do if I can find a nice GUI over it so I don't have to write XML by hand. Greg K P.S. Setup project generated web installers require IIS 6 metabase compatibility on if you're using IIS 7. This didn't wasn't relevant to my situation above, but it was worth mentioning as lots of people have stumbled over this subtle dependency when the installation fails with the same unhelpful interrupted failure.
RE: Validation
There is a similar usage of DataAnnotations described in an article at CodeProject - http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/256183/DataAnnotations-Validation-for-Beginner I’ve found this method useful (initially discovered at MSDN Library here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc668224(v=vs.110).aspx ). _ Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 3:58 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Validation Finally found a way of using the DataAnnotations. This guy http://aboutdev.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/poor-mans-validation/ points out the Validator http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.dataannotations.validator(v=vs.110).aspx class static methods. The code is a bit weird through, as you make a context with the thing to validate, then you call Validate on the thing, passing the context, so you give it the thing twice. You can derive from ValidationAttribute and make your own rules. The context is used to pass extra information to the validation processing, so you could put multiple things in a dictionary and validate them against each other. This suits my needs for now -- Greg On 7 October 2014 15:14, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Using the Framework classes, is there is neat and easy way of annotating properties of a class with validation rules and then validating the rules to get the error(s)? I ask because the DataAnnotations http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.dataannotations(v=vs.110).aspx namespace has dozens of attributes for defining the rules and data format of properties, but I can't find anything that then processes the rules to give you results. I get the impression these attributes are just for code-first. I can also implement IDataErrorInfo http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.idataerrorinfo(v=vs.110).aspx but it seems designed for use in UI binding and again I can't find who actually runs the validation. I just wanted to annotate a class with rules and then process then when I want with minimum effort, independent of the environment. Is there some trick I'm missing? Greg K
RE: Validation
The DataAnnotations namespace is extensive. I haven’t explored how to make use of its many classes. _ Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 5:03 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Validation There is a similar usage of DataAnnotations described in an article at CodeProject - http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/256183/DataAnnotations-Validation-for-Beginner Ta, I eventually stumbled on that one too. For ages I couldn't find anything that actually used the attributes and I thought they might be only used internally for DB entities. But I finally found the Validator class (which has a rather strange class!). I made a custom validation attribute and it works pleasantly -- Greg
RE: SQLite déjà vu again
Greg, there is an article on the Red Gate / Simple-Talk website that you may be interested to read – Does NoSQL = NoDBA? https://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/opinion-pieces/does-nosql--nodba In passing, the author mentions a number of other NoSQL database systems - MongoDB, CouchDB, Cassandra, Riak, Voldemort. What interested me was the discussion of the CAP Theorem (in the context of distributed systems, Big Data) and “eventual consistency” of NoSQL queries, versus the enforced consistency of relational databases. From my reading, the absence of (a wider range of) typed data fields for NoSQL databases is probably because of their irrelevance - and the absence of GUID fields is of no concern in the context of their principal use cases. _ Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2014 7:35 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: SQLite déjà vu again Well, it's not all hugs and puppies, as BrightstarDB failed my very first test to use it in a real application. Its Entity Framework like layer does not support Guid properties. This is utterly inconceivable and unexpected, and it renders the library completely useless to me. I have posted into their forum suggesting that adding unconditional support for Guids must be of the highest priority -- Greg K On 31 October 2014 18:36, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: On 30 October 2014 19:19, osjasonrobe...@gmail.com wrote: BrightstarDB - http://brightstardb.com/ may be of interest… After fiddling with this for half an hour I'm starting to think this product is a work of art! It's pleasing to discover a managed product that is well thought-out, elegantly layered, (quite) well documented, well tooled, uncluttered, and free. I had the samples working in minutes without a glitch, and most importantly they worked in a really familiar style. You can work with two lower levels of API or at the higher entity level. They have VS templates to add interfaces from which a T4 template will generate EF-like entities. In fact they've mimicked EF with amazing fidelity, even relationship collections. It's weird to find a NoSql database that supports joins. I don't know yet how much of EF's IQueryable behaviour they've reproduced. They foolishly seem to have created their own query language called SPARQL. I'm going to investigate BrightstarDB in much more detail and I'll report any startling news. Anyone else here using it? Greg K
RE: vs2013 community edition performance
20% discounts on Xamarin still mean AUD1000 minimum per year. I haven’t heard a “Microsoft to buy Xamarin” rumour since March this year, but Telerik was recently acquired by Progress Software (I have their Stylus Studio XML editor-designer suite, otherwise “who are they?”). Things happen. Does Xamarin still have a strong involvement with Mono development? _ Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 4:06 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: vs2013 community edition performance as well as Xamarin (free version) will work in Visual Studio. I also received this broadcast and noticed the vague but enticing announcement about cross platform mobile development. But ... I'm sure it's all dependent upon Xamarin, and I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that the professional version costs about $1000/year and has a 30 day crippled evaluation. So what would we get in the free Xamarin in Visual Studio 2015? -- Greg
RE: VS2013 Windows Phone project
Are you developing on Windows 8.1 with VS2013? _ Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 2:22 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: VS2013 Windows Phone project Folks, I have been asked to write a demo Windows Phone app, which I've never done before, but I'm keen to give it a bash. However, I'm off to a bad start. VS2013 Update 4 has no New Project template for a phone app. I have installed all VS2013 features. I can see the Windows Phone SDK v8.0 and v8.1 folders under Program Files(x86). Web searches hint that I should just be able to select New Project and off I go. What's missing? -- Greg K
RE: VS2013 Windows Phone project
Greg - Yes, Windows 8 has the Hyper-V. But I know that a few people have used the WP8 SDK on Windows 7. I think a requirement is 64-bit Windows? But the VS2012 Express version is suitable. I found this a good jump-off point - Developing Apps for Windows 8 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/ff402551(v=vs.105).aspx - possibly the topic about requirements for the emulator System%20requirements%20for%20the%20emulator%20for%20Windows%20Phone%208 is what you needed to see first, though. I do have a Windows Phone, and after a long delay it was updated to WP8.1 a few months ago (Australia followed later than many countries). A beginners tool is called Windows App Studio - I just found its tutorial location again, here http://appstudio.windows.com/en-us . Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 4:32 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: VS2013 Windows Phone project Hi Ian (and Stephen), No I was absentmindedly on Windows 7 where I do the bulk of my normal work. In a tiny hint in some web search I saw a comment about no support in Windows 7. I just went over to a VM running VS2013 retail and it has lots of phone templates, so there you go! I staggers me though, as I thought it was all simulated and I find it hard to believe a certain type of VS project needs Windows 8. That means that Windows 8 is actually useful for something!! (for the wrong reasons) -- *Greg* On 18 November 2014 14:42, ILT (O) il.tho...@outlook.com wrote: Are you developing on Windows 8.1 with VS2013? -- Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Greg Keogh *Sent:* Tuesday, November 18, 2014 2:22 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* VS2013 Windows Phone project Folks, I have been asked to write a demo Windows Phone app, which I've never done before, but I'm keen to give it a bash. However, I'm off to a bad start. VS2013 Update 4 has no New Project template for a phone app. I have installed all VS2013 features. I can see the Windows Phone SDK v8.0 and v8.1 folders under Program Files(x86). Web searches hint that I should just be able to select New Project and off I go. What's missing? -- *Greg K*
RE: [OT] Turning off outgoing mail possible?
Bec - have you looked at the (prior) email headers from this person? That will tell you what email client is normally used, and some other intermediate server information. I have just tested this, and It’s possible for (for example) using Outlook desktop versions to copy or move items to and from the Sent Items folder. Without looking at the sender’s emailer, and forensically examining the headers - Sent, Received, Created dates (etc) - you’re not going to win an argument though, I reckon. _ Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Bec Carter Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2014 9:57 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Turning off outgoing mail possible? Haha thanks guys but this case is quite suspicious. It was sent over two weeks ago and it just happens the most important email is the only one which didn't arrive. All others arrived. I'm not buying it. :-) Is it possible to achieve this by tampering with the mail server settings or some other way? Noonie- I've not been able to replicate this by dragging into the sent folder in gmail. Perhaps Outlook will do it but that would be quite dodgy. Cheers On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: I always marvel at how people use email for business. As if it were guaranteed delivery. The technology has been around longer than the internet and I'd not be surprised if its not been changed in all that time. I'd like to hope it has but not looked into it. Might put that on my weekend reading list. Right after a few marvel comics. :) On Nov 28, 2014 4:12 PM, noonie neale.n...@gmail.com wrote: Bec, The mail client might let you drag an email into sent items. Email is not guaranteed to be delivered. That's not part of the spec (though you might be able to interpret it that way). So they could have sent it and you still might receive it next week, or never... Isn't that just peachy? -- Regards, noonie On 28/11/2014 5:17 pm, Bec Carter bec.usern...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry everyone but this one is way way off topic. Someone claims to have sent me an email. I never received it- yes I checked the Junk folder :-) They've shown me their mailbox and its sitting in the Sent folder. Can someone with control of their web domain send an email, have it pop into the Sent items folder but not actually send? Say by somehow turning off (or providing a faulty) outgoing mail server setting or similar? Cheers
RE: Duplicate matching
Yes, I use Treesize (Professional) when I need to discover files on disks. I’ve
had to do it remotely using TeamViewer – hence the Pro version – but a free
version and also a trial of the Pro version are available as I recall. It’s
worth a try.
But I’m interested in the algorithm and the code, since it might be useful
within a program of mine and also in a personal scenario similar to Greg K’s.
_
Ian Thomas
Albert Park, Victoria
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Stephen Price
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2014 12:30 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: Duplicate matching
Am curious, is the idea of the exercise to write your own code to solve the
problem, or to solve the problem? I've used Treesize pro to find file
duplicates in the past. Also have used Directory Opus to find duplicates. Great
for finding identical files with different names. Probably won't help if the
songs are the same song but from a different source. Your file name pattern
matching code would be the way to go. (Which is also the case if this is a
programming exercise :)
Maybe I'm a lazy coder, I usually look for someone elses product/code before
writing my own. I can see the benefit of writing your own too.
http://t.signaledue.com/e1t/o/5/f18dQhb0S7ks8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9gXrN7sKj6v4LGzzVdDZcj8qlRZHN5w6vp0g4p7Cf96836-01?si=6200614728499200pi=27dbf3f9-42ef-41ec-f206-9d6dc151c2c2
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:
Thanks Greg H, the weighting is a very interesting idea. I'm running some
simple experiments now with a word list and an inverted list of file names,
just to help me picture the problem in my head. The problem with a weighting
comparison is that I don't know what to compare with what, comparing 20,000
file names with every other one might run into the next ice age. However, I
like the weighting idea, so I might finish up with a hybrid algorithm. I'll let
you know if anything interesting arises out of this -- Greg K
On 29 November 2014 at 11:17, Greg Harris g...@harrisconsultinggroup.com
wrote:
Hi Greg,
I should look at my code before I write comments from memory...
The result is a double value being the sum of:
· number of times the same letter appears in both strings
· 10 times the number of times the same two letters appears in both
strings
· 100 times the number of times the same three letters appears in both
strings
Which is then divided by the length of the two strings to sort of “normalise”
the result.
Mixed case is ignored, only compares letters A-Z and 0-9, everything else is
excluded.
I added a Greg unit test to better show the results which is following…
Regards
Greg Harris
[TestMethod] public void Test_10_Compare3_ForGregKeogh()
{
// 123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12456
string lTestLine1 = Lovelock - Trumpet Concerto (SSO Concert).mp3;
string lTestLine2 = Trumpet Concerto (William Lovelock).mp3;
double lExpected = 3033/(36.0 + 33.0); // = 43.9
double lResult= lTestLine1.CompareSoundsLike( lTestLine2 );
Assert.AreEqualdouble( lExpected, lResult );
// This is an example of exactly the same string, so will get the best
posible match
lTestLine1 = Lovelock - Trumpet Concerto (SSO Concert).mp3;
lTestLine2 = Lovelock - Trumpet Concerto (SSO Concert).mp3;
lExpected = 5256/(36.0 + 36.0); // = 73.0
lResult= lTestLine1.CompareSoundsLike( lTestLine2 );
Assert.AreEqualdouble( lExpected, lResult );
// This is an example of exactly the same string, with case difference,
which is ignored,
// so will also get the best possible match
lTestLine1 = Lovelock - Trumpet Concerto (SSO Concert).mp3;
lTestLine2 = LOVELOCK - TRUMPET CONCERTO (SSO CONCERT).mp3;
lExpected = 5256/(36.0 + 36.0); // = 73.0
lResult= lTestLine1.CompareSoundsLike( lTestLine2 );
Assert.AreEqualdouble( lExpected, lResult );
// This is an example of a spelling/typing mistake, so will get a very
good match
lTestLine1 = Lovelock - Trumpet Concerto (SSO Concert).mp3;
lTestLine2 = Lovelock - Trumpet Concerto (SoSo Concert).mp3;
lExpected = 5272/(36.0 + 37.0); // = 72.2
lResult= lTestLine1.CompareSoundsLike( lTestLine2 );
Assert.AreEqualdouble( lExpected, lResult );
// This is an example of a truncation, so will get a poor match
lTestLine1 = Lovelock - Trumpet Concerto (SSO Concert).mp3;
lTestLine2 = Lovelock - Trumpet Concerto.mp3;
lExpected = 3237/(36.0 + 26.0); // = 52.2
lResult= lTestLine1.CompareSoundsLike( lTestLine2 );
Assert.AreEqualdouble( lExpected, lResult );
// This will get a match on William and a
RE: Programmatically call forward
Wouldn’t the “phone” through the modem be done by VOIP – whether cable or ADSL – and therefore you would be looking at SIP for communications? Try a search for something like SIP SDK or MSDN SIP and you may get some ideas. _ Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 11:49 AM To: Glen Harvy; ozDotNet Subject: Re: Programmatically call forward Your modem modern probably doesn't even connect to a phone line. Or may not, ADSL is often naked as well. So you'd need a DTMF with AUSTEL approved isolator. Hmmm. Or a sound card could do the generation, but you'd still need to get it isolated. On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 4:11 AM, Glen Harvy g...@aquarius.com.au wrote: The short answer is - Yes. A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, there were modems. You plugged the phone line into them and then plugged the modem into your coms/serial port. The software would then send commands to the modem to send the appropriate tones for '*' '2' '1'' phone number' '#'. I see no reason why you still can't do it. CodeProject had several examples you can use to send the appropriate code to your modem/router and it should also be possible to interface with the modem/router via the network rather than the serial port. You may need an API to the router, not the telco service provider. On 16/12/2014 10:05 PM, Craig van Nieuwkerk wrote: Can I do this programatically though, from a .NET program? On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Mark Hurd markeh...@gmail.com wrote: On: *21forward number# Off: #21# -- Regards, Mark Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.)(Hons.) On 16 December 2014 at 18:58, Craig van Nieuwkerk crai...@gmail.com wrote: I have a client who wants to be able to have a button in our app to turn on/off call forwarding on their phone system. Does Telstra (or Optus) have any API anyone knows about for things like this? Craig -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough - Adam Hills
RE: Programmatically call forward
Depends on whether you want to control the virtual (SIP) phone, or a local (POTS) phone. True, Mike. Interestingly some mass-appeal modems now have ports (connections) for both. I think there’s a TP-Link ADSL modem that does. (This doesn’t help to answer the original question, though). _ Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria
WP - prepare for universal app development in Windows 10
Greg K – I assume you receive the MSDN Flash and saw this article http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2014/12/17/bring-your-windows-phone-silverlight-apps-to-windows-runtime-xaml-prepare-for-universal-app-development-in-windows-10/?loc=zatfz_zTS2zprod=zWPztech=zOtScenzlang=zOtLangzprog=zOtProgztype=zBlzcountry=zUSz ? _ Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria
RE: WP - prepare for universal app development in Windows 10
It’s interesting to read the comments, and the Microsoft replies – about what is currently missing from “universal” and why Silverlight is more suitable, at present. _ Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 9:43 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: WP - prepare for universal app development in Windows 10 Greg K – I assume you receive the MSDN Flash and saw this article http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2014/12/17/bring-your-windows-phone-silverlight-apps-to-windows-runtime-xaml-prepare-for-universal-app-development-in-windows-10/?loc=zatfz_zTS2zprod=zWPztech=zOtScenzlang=zOtLangzprog=zOtProgztype=zBlzcountry=zUSz ? Yes I did see that. WinRT comes to Phone 8.1 so you can run mostly shared code on phone, tablet and desktop (after a big refactor). That's great for people who want to do that, but not me at the moment due to the fact that the job I'm on requires phone 8.0. However, it's good to know this small convergence exists in case it's useful for future projects -- GK
RE: WP - prepare for universal app development in Windows 10
Chrome installed eh! It truly is a global virus! -- GK Interesting that Microsoft’s “Spartan” browser may/will be minimalist and extensible – like Chrome (according to Mary Jo Foley http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-is-building-a-new-browser-as-part-of-its-windows-10-push/ and Neowin http://www.neowin.net/news/internet-explorer-12-big-changes-are-coming-to-trident ). _ Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 6:16 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: WP - prepare for universal app development in Windows 10 I have installed it to have a look (but not yet spent any time on it yet). I was surprised to see when it installed the external stuff (ie android sdk etc) it actually installed google chrome for me. Kind of a really? Wow! Moment. I'm installing a Win8.1 VM as I type, to receive VS2015 for a bash. Chrome installed eh! It truly is a global virus! -- GK
RE: WP - prepare for universal app development in Windows 10
Not really related to universal apps, but there is an interesting short article in InfoQ that quotes DevExpress specifically about “their take on the future of Silverlight. This is the teaser - DevExpress on the Future of WinForms and Silverlight You can tell a lot about the future of a UI toolkit by how the third party control vendors are treating it. Since their revenue is based around correctly predicting what developers are going to be using in the near future, they spend a lot of time and effort researching the topic. In this report, we’ll be looking at DevExpress and their treatment of WinForms and Silverlight. (News http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/12/DevExpress-WinForms-Silverlight ) Suffice to say DevExpress is putting Silverlight development “on hold”. But they are positive about the future of XAML. (link https://community.devexpress.com/blogs/ctodx/archive/2014/12/22/silverlight-s-future-at-devexpress.aspx ) From its early beginnings in WPF and Silverlight, XAML has grown into a cross-platform user interface definition language. We now use it for WPF, WinRT, Windows Phone, and soon-if-not-now Universal Apps. The legacy of Silverlight the framework is essentially Windows Phone, but that of XAML is across all platforms. Windows Forms? Read the two articles. Back to Microsoft’s universal apps. My original post and remarks about the comments below the Microsoft blog article was non-judgmental – in contrast to the comments (I find they’re usually alarmist, occasionally informative). As David Kean make clear, Microsoft wouldn’t leave those gaping omissions. _ Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 5:43 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: WP - prepare for universal app development in Windows 10 Thanks David, your link to this article http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/12/04/introducing-net-core.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/12/04/introducing-net-core.aspx posted about a month ago (good reading) clarifies where things are headed. I hadn't been following the news closely, so I was unclear about the big picture of where all the frameworks, portables, RTs and Universals were heading, I couldn't see an end-game. I can't picture yet how this will affect the way I chose to build and deploy various project types, but perhaps the preview VS2015 will show me ... has anyone tried VS2015? Does it have new behaviour to prepare for all the .NET core refactoring? I'm planning to make a VM to try VS2015 this weekend. *Greg K* On 3 January 2015 at 12:03, David Kean mailto:david.k...@microsoft.com david.k...@microsoft.com wrote: The next version of universal apps is going to be lovely. We’ll have a single Windows and .NET surface area across all Windows 10 devices, and we’ll be filling a bunch of the glaring gaps (including WCF, local database – we’ll have EF running over SQLLite, file IO, crypto). As part of .NET Core http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/12/04/introducing-net-core.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/12/04/introducing-net-core.aspx effort, we’ve also ported a bunch of legacy areas to make porting from existing .NET code easier. If you think things are missing that should be included and you’ve not listed them below, feel free to send them onto me. *From:* mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Tuesday, December 23, 2014 8:06 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: WP - prepare for universal app development in Windows 10 Universal apps are lovely. there you go. [image: http://t.signaledue.com/e1t/o/5/f18dQhb0S7ks8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9gXrN7sKj6v4LGzzVdDZcj8qlRZHN5w6vp0g4p7Cf96836-01?si=6200614728499200pi=18f8bcdd-be75-4e65-cda4-5bf7f562f3e2 http://t.signaledue.com/e1t/o/5/f18dQhb0S7ks8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9gXrN7sKj6v4LGzzVdDZcj8qlRZHN5w6vp0g4p7Cf96836-01?si=6200614728499200pi=18f8bcdd-be75-4e65-cda4-5bf7f562f3e2] On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Greg Keogh mailto:g...@mira.net g...@mira.net wrote: It’s interesting to read the comments, and the Microsoft replies – about what is currently missing from “universal” and why Silverlight is more suitable, at present. Good grief! I didn't previously scroll down to see those comments. I don't think this migration to WinRT should have been announced until all of the glaring omissions were available. Alarms, reminders, copy-paste, local database, WCF (they must be kidding, or can't talk to anything)... The whole RT and winmd files thing leaves me bewildered by more divergence and too many choices, everything is fragmenting without a clear goal in
