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New year – new blog or how to migrate Community Server to any other engine, supports XML-RPC
Please update your bookmarks, because the new url of this blog is http://khason.net/ (you have not update RSS feeds, it will be done automatically). Why I did it? Why I decided to go to “stand-alone”… Well. there are some reasons. Generally, I do not...
Read and use FM radio (or any other USB HID device) from C#
Last time we spoke about reading and decoding RDS information from FM receivers . Also we already know how to stream sound from DirectSound compatible devices . However, before we can do it, we should be able to “speak” with such devices. So, today we...
P/Invoke cheat sheet
I’m working a lot with p/invoke, and know how it’s hard to produce correct signature for unmanaged method. So, today I decided to publish basic cheat sheet for methods, parameters and attributes you should use in order to invoke unmanaged methods from...
The new version of WPF Performance Profiling Tool is available for download
Finally, after a long time of silence, the new version of WPF Performance Profiling Tool is available for download for x32 and x64 OSs.  So, what’s new there? Ton of UI improvements for Visual Profiler New search function to quick find elements in...
.NET 3.5 SP1 is RTM and available for download
For all those who asked, .NET 3.5 SP1 is final and available for download. What’s inside? ASP.NET Dynamic data Core improvements for CLR A lot of performance improvements in WPF ClickOnce enhancements ADO.NET with Data Services and Entity Framework LINQ2SQL...
Mastering Images in WPF
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/mastering-images-in-wpf/ ] If you are “in” WPF imaging, you, definitely, should read this post of Dwayne Need (who is SDM of WPF in Microsoft...
How to make Silverlight be AiR?
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/how-to-make-silverlight-be-air/ ] Today we’ll speak about three issues How to make Silverlight application to run as stand alone application...
Using Vista Preview Handlers in WPF application
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/using-vista-preview-handlers-in-wpf-application/ ] First of all what is Preview Handler? Preview Handler is COM object, that called when...
To OLE / From OLE color translator in WPF
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/to-ole-from-ole-color-translator-in-wpf/ ] In GDI+ (Winforms) world, there was very handy class inside System.Drawing. It named ColorTranslator...
Quick tip: How to open popup or ContextMenu in XBAP application
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/quick-tip-how-to-open-popup-or-contextmenu-in-xbap-application/ ] If you want to use ContextMenu in XBAP application this will work, only...
Focus Management and mouse wheel hooking on WinForms by using WPF
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/focus-management-and-mouse-wheel-hooking-on-winforms-by-using-wpf/ ] Someone asked very interesting question in MSDN forums. I was sure,...
Z-Order hack for WinForms interop controls in WPF
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/z-order-hack-for-winforms-interop-controls-in-wpf/ ] If you ever tried to put something from WPF world over Windows Forms controls (interop...
Transparent WPF control over unmanaged window handle
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/transparent-wpf-control-over-unmanaged-window-handle/ ] All those, how even once tried to put opaque or transparent WPF control over Windows...
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