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So, for those of us who were too busy watching Godzilla with our sons, does anyone want to give us a summary?

Herbie

This is an issue in the UK, too.  Currently Google are making the headlines being called 'immoral' by a parliamentary committee, but Microsoft and Amazon are accused also.

The upcoming G8 summit will address these issues on international tax avoidance, with a new to curbing it.

Herbie

@Harlequin: Looks like http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hub/reveal is a stream ...

Herbie

@vesuvius: You can take your terrible puns and fork off.

Herbie

10 hours ago, anaximander wrote

Hello,

I am working on  a program to allow users to draw objects on a screen. It needs to do this through code, not XAML. I have a class inheriting Canvas that implements protected functions like, AddVisualChild, AddLogicalChild, RemoveVisualChild, RemoveLogicalChild. These methods can only be accessed by an inheriting class - if I use the Canvas object instead of the subclass, these methods cannot be accessed. My class will draw lines, curves and other Visuals. But I want to also add a TextBox into which the user can type directly, which I haven't been able to do. If I create an instance of TextBox and add it the children of the my subclass, the textbox does not appear. I've verified that it's there in debug mode and using Snoop. Is there a property I need to set. Setting Visibility and ZIndex do nothing.

If i create a Canvas (not an instance of my DrawingCanvas class) in XAML and put a TextBox under it, it appears fine. But if I try to add a Visual in code to the Canvas using

1	theCanvas.Children.Add(myVisual)

it says: "cannot be converted to 'System.Windows.UIElement'.

*snip*

The error suggests to me that 'myVisual' does not inherit from UIElement. Is myVisual a UserControl?

I have an app that uses a standard canvas, and I allow the user to add elements (images and text) that are implemented as UserControl types (with additional code to handle touch manipulation).

Herbie

@felix9: Cheers!  Hmm, RenderTargetBitmap ... just what I've been looking for ....

Herbie

Is there any hint that there will be an SDK update for 8.1?  I'd say WinRT still feels like a V1 framework at times and I'm hoping it gets fleshed out a little more.

Herbie

@blowdart: Have you tried just deleting every post Charles makes?

Herbie

We entertained ourselves in the office for a few minutes yesterday by inventing insulting domain names to type in to Skype with HTTPS:// prefixes just in the hope that someone at MS actually ever looks at the logs. Childish, I know, but we couldn't help ourselves.

Herbie

1 hour ago, fanbaby wrote

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When I was using Microsoft tools, they use to say that about VB.

And when I used Borland tools, they used to say that about OWL.

Herbie