Channel 9 - Discussions by Catatonic http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Discussions by Catatonic http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions en Fri, 24 May 2013 09:47:26 GMT Fri, 24 May 2013 09:47:26 GMT Rev9 0 0 0 The 9 Guy Around The World - Mac OS - TIGER in vmware 5.5 As far as the lawyers are concerned, you don't own your software. But at least they don't take your license away for computing while drunk.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/9GuyAroundTheWorld/176371-Mac-OS-TIGER-in-vmware-55/072de284a299492fa8019dea010220c0#072de284a299492fa8019dea010220c0 Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:04:16 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/9GuyAroundTheWorld/176371-Mac-OS-TIGER-in-vmware-55/072de284a299492fa8019dea010220c0#072de284a299492fa8019dea010220c0 Catatonic 11 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Happy Birthday Windows 95! (8/24) The past comes back to haunt me!

Bandwagon

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/101682-Happy-Birthday-Windows-95-824/1caf0ef7d6524da3be859dec006f473c#1caf0ef7d6524da3be859dec006f473c Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:16:12 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/101682-Happy-Birthday-Windows-95-824/1caf0ef7d6524da3be859dec006f473c#1caf0ef7d6524da3be859dec006f473c Catatonic 12 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Whatever happened to ... I subscribed to the RSS feed before it launched, but unbelievably they have never posted anything to it.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/58686-Whatever-happened-to-/ea33e21699934bd397219dec00419197#ea33e21699934bd397219dec00419197 Thu, 21 Apr 2005 18:33:35 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/58686-Whatever-happened-to-/ea33e21699934bd397219dec00419197#ea33e21699934bd397219dec00419197 Catatonic 10 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Hello Tablet world! Suggestion: In addition to the "alt" tag, it would be nice to have the recognized text in a "title" tag. Firefox will not display Alt text when you hover the mouse, but it does display Title text.

Or, put the text in hidden Div's, which the user can optionally unhide. Comments?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/56061-Hello-Tablet-world/840cbab1c80e4d98b6d69dec003ea0b2#840cbab1c80e4d98b6d69dec003ea0b2 Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:23:30 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/56061-Hello-Tablet-world/840cbab1c80e4d98b6d69dec003ea0b2#840cbab1c80e4d98b6d69dec003ea0b2 Catatonic 384 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Hello Tablet world! I didn't realize this topic was active - the RSS Feed seems to end on April 15. The ink is visible now, though!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/56061-Hello-Tablet-world/cc01482d211b45eda4419dec003e9e88#cc01482d211b45eda4419dec003e9e88 Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:13:22 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/56061-Hello-Tablet-world/cc01482d211b45eda4419dec003e9e88#cc01482d211b45eda4419dec003e9e88 Catatonic 384 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Desktop sharing in windows You do not need a server to do this. Windows Media Encoder will stream video directly from a Win XP Pro box. It also has a screen capture codec that compresses the full screen into less than 150 kilobits/second at 10 fps.

Tell Windows Media Encoder to use "Screen Capture" as the video device, and whatever audio device you want. On the Output tab, select "pull from encoder" and choose a port number that the clients will connect to. (They can use HTTP or MMS.) Then on the Compression tab, choose Windows Media server (streaming) - Video: Screen Capture (CBR), then choose a bit rate & frame rate.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/55880-Desktop-sharing-in-windows/f08ad43183cf40f884b09dec003e2ef2#f08ad43183cf40f884b09dec003e2ef2 Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:20:14 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/55880-Desktop-sharing-in-windows/f08ad43183cf40f884b09dec003e2ef2#f08ad43183cf40f884b09dec003e2ef2 Catatonic 17 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Desktop sharing in windows You should be able to use Windows Media Encoder to capture your screen and stream it live.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/55880-Desktop-sharing-in-windows/77a8893542bd410e85479dec003e2ea2#77a8893542bd410e85479dec003e2ea2 Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:05:09 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/55880-Desktop-sharing-in-windows/77a8893542bd410e85479dec003e2ea2#77a8893542bd410e85479dec003e2ea2 Catatonic 17 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Hello Tablet world! The Moblog works great in Bloglines. "9 Guy Around the World" posts show up, although you have to click through to see the photos. With this forum, the inked posts are just missing. (I think it's the empty <description> tag.)

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/56061-Hello-Tablet-world/c30aca3b418148b8a9b49dec003e7d3f#c30aca3b418148b8a9b49dec003e7d3f Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:36:03 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/56061-Hello-Tablet-world/c30aca3b418148b8a9b49dec003e7d3f#c30aca3b418148b8a9b49dec003e7d3f Catatonic 384 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Hello Tablet world! I'm tracking this RSS feed with Bloglines, and all the ink posts are missing!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/56061-Hello-Tablet-world/8e4561ac9ed8466f9a799dec003e7b93#8e4561ac9ed8466f9a799dec003e7b93 Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:12:12 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/56061-Hello-Tablet-world/8e4561ac9ed8466f9a799dec003e7b93#8e4561ac9ed8466f9a799dec003e7b93 Catatonic 384 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Hello Tablet world! I thought it was fun to annoy my friends with ink in MSN Messenger. Now we can annoy the world!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/56061-Hello-Tablet-world/8cef5c9de97348db8de99dec003e7b2d#8cef5c9de97348db8de99dec003e7b2d Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:09:35 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/56061-Hello-Tablet-world/8cef5c9de97348db8de99dec003e7b2d#8cef5c9de97348db8de99dec003e7b2d Catatonic 384 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - What did you and didnt you like about... "What I'm listening to" is OK, but nudges and winks just beg to be shut off. Still can't get Audio conversation working behind my router, even though Messenger detects UPnP correctly, and Skype works.

Is anyone still working on Three Degrees? It has some cool stuff I want to have in MSN Messenger.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/54061-What-did-you-and-didnt-you-like-about/ecb8a5da01a2485bac979dec003c40e2#ecb8a5da01a2485bac979dec003c40e2 Fri, 08 Apr 2005 04:41:38 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/54061-What-did-you-and-didnt-you-like-about/ecb8a5da01a2485bac979dec003c40e2#ecb8a5da01a2485bac979dec003c40e2 Catatonic 36 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - A gift for 9guy You can't make him go outside without his laptop, I tried!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/53761-A-gift-for-9guy/121a86eb085144e09a109dec003c0ed0#121a86eb085144e09a109dec003c0ed0 Wed, 06 Apr 2005 20:31:03 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/53761-A-gift-for-9guy/121a86eb085144e09a109dec003c0ed0#121a86eb085144e09a109dec003c0ed0 Catatonic 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - A gift for 9guy

For his first birthday, the little guy got enough Coke to keep him coding for the next two weeks without a break. So I'm going to take a holiday and let him do all the work for a while!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/53761-A-gift-for-9guy/53761#53761 Wed, 06 Apr 2005 20:10:41 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/53761-A-gift-for-9guy/53761#53761 Catatonic 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Where have you been? Does Bermuda really count as Central America or the Caribbean? It's not far from the coast of South Carolina. Plus, everyone I met there was from the UK or Canada. Smiley

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/52906-Where-have-you-been/46000938fe6d45eea4359dec003b381e#46000938fe6d45eea4359dec003b381e Mon, 04 Apr 2005 19:36:37 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/52906-Where-have-you-been/46000938fe6d45eea4359dec003b381e#46000938fe6d45eea4359dec003b381e Catatonic 28 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - In Australia and Europe, nobody watches American TV shows.. I hope that digital projectors will make it possible to release movies all over the world at the same time. Right now it just costs too much to make enough 35mm prints. (Millions of dollars per movie)

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/52908-In-Australia-and-Europe-nobody-watches-American-TV-shows/6b84b67914ba409d92169dec003b3c6c#6b84b67914ba409d92169dec003b3c6c Mon, 04 Apr 2005 19:30:50 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/52908-In-Australia-and-Europe-nobody-watches-American-TV-shows/6b84b67914ba409d92169dec003b3c6c#6b84b67914ba409d92169dec003b3c6c Catatonic 31 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions/RSS The 9 Guy Around The World - 9 Guy in the Sky Full-size image is available here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22263899@N00/8115206/

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/9GuyAroundTheWorld/52395-9-Guy-in-the-Sky/52395#52395 Fri, 01 Apr 2005 18:58:04 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/9GuyAroundTheWorld/52395-9-Guy-in-the-Sky/52395#52395 Catatonic 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - WinFX API: what about the small stuff? At least Avalon and Indigo will run on WinXP/20003. They are part of WinFX. But I haven't found anything about the low-level stuff you're asking about. It's a good question.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/45041-WinFX-API-what-about-the-small-stuff/bd7bfdebc9aa4ae8b8249dec00323a7b#bd7bfdebc9aa4ae8b8249dec00323a7b Tue, 08 Mar 2005 22:38:40 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/45041-WinFX-API-what-about-the-small-stuff/bd7bfdebc9aa4ae8b8249dec00323a7b#bd7bfdebc9aa4ae8b8249dec00323a7b Catatonic 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Videos' sizes are very large Last time I checked, the video files contained multiple bitrates (300, 110 and 44kbit/s). This makes them 10x bigger than they need to be if someone just wants the 44k video.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/32482-Videos-sizes-are-very-large/b132c346024c4edc90af9dea013981de#b132c346024c4edc90af9dea013981de Sun, 26 Dec 2004 16:04:18 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/32482-Videos-sizes-are-very-large/b132c346024c4edc90af9dea013981de#b132c346024c4edc90af9dea013981de Catatonic 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - Any ideas for a datastore for a small application? SQLite works pretty darn well and it has an ADO.NET driver here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/adodotnetsqlite/

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/32051-Any-ideas-for-a-datastore-for-a-small-application/46cc0a7d59e04947bd589dea0116c3da#46cc0a7d59e04947bd589dea0116c3da Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:47:03 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/32051-Any-ideas-for-a-datastore-for-a-small-application/46cc0a7d59e04947bd589dea0116c3da#46cc0a7d59e04947bd589dea0116c3da Catatonic 12 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Channel9 Videos and MPlayer (Linux) One thing to watch for - the Channel 9 videos are usually encoded with multiple bit rates. Also some of them use the WM9 Voice codec which is a bit unusual (but is a good choice).

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/31428-Channel9-Videos-and-MPlayer-Linux/539eaddb6c054474a1d79dea01386768#539eaddb6c054474a1d79dea01386768 Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:05:06 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/31428-Channel9-Videos-and-MPlayer-Linux/539eaddb6c054474a1d79dea01386768#539eaddb6c054474a1d79dea01386768 Catatonic 10 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - MSN Toolbar Suite is out... Desktop search is fantastic. It's saving me a fair bit of time. Doesn't seem to work with Outlook 2000 though. Outlook is running all the time, the toolbar is there, the option to search Outlook is checked, the indexing has been completed. But it never finds any results from Outlook when I search. (Mail, contacts, calendar, don't return anything.)

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/30960-MSN-Toolbar-Suite-is-out/25d7a451ad3e462397309dea0137a8ae#25d7a451ad3e462397309dea0137a8ae Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:41:56 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/30960-MSN-Toolbar-Suite-is-out/25d7a451ad3e462397309dea0137a8ae#25d7a451ad3e462397309dea0137a8ae Catatonic 47 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Wich Tool are you using for reading RSS Feeds? I've been using Sharpreader, but I just switched to Bloglines because you can search your feeds, and I think it lets me read a large number of feeds faster.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/29985-Wich-Tool-are-you-using-for-reading-RSS-Feeds/386df5ae4d3843e691269dea01367729#386df5ae4d3843e691269dea01367729 Sat, 04 Dec 2004 13:21:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/29985-Wich-Tool-are-you-using-for-reading-RSS-Feeds/386df5ae4d3843e691269dea01367729#386df5ae4d3843e691269dea01367729 Catatonic 30 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - Rectangle for particular string. MeasureString works great. Just make sure you use the same String, Font & StringFormat when you call DrawString.

P.S. I love how GDI+ is practically identical in unmanaged C++ and in the .Net framework. They both end up calling a bunch of scary looking unsupported (but documented!) C functions.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/29791-Rectangle-for-particular-string/a0cbe5aed7a94165a74e9dea01165f8c#a0cbe5aed7a94165a74e9dea01165f8c Wed, 01 Dec 2004 17:32:15 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/29791-Rectangle-for-particular-string/a0cbe5aed7a94165a74e9dea01165f8c#a0cbe5aed7a94165a74e9dea01165f8c Catatonic 10 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - How Do I Stop A Thread Here's a really great article on threading in .NET:
http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/threads/

In my own app, I have the used the method of having the worker thread wait with Monitor.Wait, and the other thread (a UI thread) signalling it with Monitor.Pulse.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/27642-How-Do-I-Stop-A-Thread/5e712ab39b7f4780ab189dea011612d0#5e712ab39b7f4780ab189dea011612d0 Fri, 12 Nov 2004 07:40:30 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/27642-How-Do-I-Stop-A-Thread/5e712ab39b7f4780ab189dea011612d0#5e712ab39b7f4780ab189dea011612d0 Catatonic 11 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Search Engine Rankings I find that a web page's title can boost your page rank dramatically. You can also try getting a good domain name, using good URL's (multiple words separated with hyphens), and putting important words in header tags (h1, h2, etc.). All these things are good for usability too.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/27512-Search-Engine-Rankings/5bb87459d6bf44908b9f9dea01339c9b#5bb87459d6bf44908b9f9dea01339c9b Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:56:53 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/27512-Search-Engine-Rankings/5bb87459d6bf44908b9f9dea01339c9b#5bb87459d6bf44908b9f9dea01339c9b Catatonic 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Catatonic/Discussions/RSS