Browse by Tags

All Tags » Work process (RSS)
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...
Posted 01 January 2009 09:33 PM by tamirk
Filed under: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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...
Posted 30 December 2008 08:42 PM by tamirk
Filed under: , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Capturing and streaming sound by using DirectSound with C#
I already wrote a little about managed way to use DirectX DirectSound . Today we’ll speak about how to get sound from your microphone or any other DirectSound capturing device (such as FM receiver ) and stream it out to your PC speakers and any other...
Posted 25 December 2008 06:48 PM by tamirk
Filed under: , , , , , , , , , , ,
Quick Silverlight (and WPF) tip: How to write program without XAML
From the moment, 10K MIX09 contest was lunched , I got more, then 20 people, asking the same question: Is it possible to have Silverlight program up and running without XAML at all? The answer is “ YES, IT IS ”. Here is how: All you need for run WPF or...
Posted 23 December 2008 06:51 PM by tamirk
Filed under: , , , , , , , , , ,
Reading and decoding RDS (Radio Data System) in C#
RDS or Radio Data System is very common in US and many European countries. It is communication protocol used to send small amount of digital information using regular FM radio broadcast. This protocol is used to "tell" your receiver about alternative...
Posted 12 December 2008 01:44 PM by tamirk
Filed under: , , , , , , , , , , ,
How to P/Invoke VarArgs (variable arguments) in C#? ... or hidden junk in CLR
Recently I wrote a cheat sheet for pinvoking in .NET . Shortly after I got a question in comments about how to deal with variable arguments, when it's more, then one parameter. Also what to do if those arguments are heterogeneous? Let's say, that...
Posted 19 November 2008 06:44 AM by tamirk
Filed under: , , , , , , , , ,
Auto scroll ListBox in WPF
In WinForms era it was very simple to autoscroll listbox content in order to select last or newly added item. It become a bit complicated in WPF. However, complicated does not mean impossible. As for me, Microsoft should add this feature to base ListBox...
Posted 10 November 2008 09:03 AM by tamirk
Filed under: , , , , ,
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...
Posted 20 October 2008 04:02 PM by tamirk
Filed under: , , , , , , , , ,
Set binding, based on trigger
Let’s say, that you want to set binding. However, you want to set it by using some trigger. Wait! Why I need it? Let’s say, that I have some very special object, that actually has no hard-coded properties. All it’s properties are created during the runtime...
Posted 13 October 2008 03:53 AM by tamirk
Filed under: , , , , , , ,
A little bit about batteries
I tired to write about programming, code and similar nerd stuff. So today I’ll write about … batteries. How is it? :) Today, batteries are in use all over our life. We have a battery in our mobile phone, computer, camera, mp3 player, even microwave, alarm...
Posted 20 September 2008 05:16 AM by tamirk
Filed under: , , , , , , ,
WGS to UTM, UTM to WGS conversions, geo distance, azimuth and other geographical calculations in C#
"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated" Since my post about leaving consulting field , I got huge amount of email with questions about all community projects, I'm leading, blogging in general and specific to the future of this...
Posted 15 September 2008 03:16 AM by tamirk
Filed under: , , , , , , , ,
Configuring and running Mono ASP.NET 3.5 (AJAX.NET) on Linux computers
Before we will start, we should install Linux. To do this, you can download any of LiveCDs with live installation. Officially, Mono supported only on one free Linux - openSuse . However, you can make it work on any RedHat (and its alternatives), OpenSolaris...
Posted 24 July 2008 01:27 PM by tamirk
Filed under: , , , , , , , ,
Choosing new notebook
Hi, Community Brain. It’s time for me to change my old good Dell Latitude D820 . I need performant machine and following the results of my findings. It’s really important for me to know your opinion about those choices. Also, if you have additional choices...
Posted 22 July 2008 04:07 PM by tamirk
Filed under: , , , ,
How to handle thickness
Yesterday, we spoke about type converters . We even, built simple generic enum converter. Today, we’ll create more complicated converter, that very missing in Silverlight – ThicknessConverter. During the post, I also explain about tokenizing values in...
Posted 08 July 2008 10:07 PM by tamirk
Filed under: , , , , , , ,
Work process: How to use and build type converters
Today, I want to start new tag - “ Work process ”. Here I’m going to publish partial classes, fixes, small utilities, I’m building for myself or clients to help in work process. I’ll give an example : currently, I’m working on BiDi support for Silverlight...
Posted 07 July 2008 08:58 PM by tamirk
Filed under: , , , , , , ,
Page view counter