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Re: S. Somasegar (Soma): Introducing Visual Studio 2010 RTM

PeterF — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:35:58 GMT

I know, it sounds lame, but any word on SourceSafe service pack for VS2010 integration?

Thanks,

Peter

Edit: Never mind, SourceSafe 2005 plus update for VS2008/Vista integrates in Visual Studio 2010 as soon as you have opened a SourceSafe managed project. Thanks.

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Re: Channel 9 Live at Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 4 Launch

PeterF — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:34:22 GMT

Getting no audio

Ok, had only the left earpeace in Only sound from the right

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Re: Hands on with Windows Live Movie Maker

PeterF — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:57:22 GMT

I still need to very this, I didn't yet order an HDMI cable online that is compatible with the camera. They use a type of mini connector that I cannot find in any hardware shop here around.

I was trying to find a link where I saw a movie shooting setup with a TV screen attached. Instead I found a link to the behind the scenes shooting of the promotion video for the Canon :

http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/2008/09/23/behind-the-scenes-video/

Thanks for the tip for the Blackmagic card. But before I spend money on it I will wait for Nic's answer on whether he was able to import into Movie Maker, or if they have plans to fix it

Regards,

Peter

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Re: Hands on with Windows Live Movie Maker

PeterF — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:53:46 GMT

Using Windows 7 Ultimate x64, and Canon 5D Mark II movie files are not working. Did you get it running with your setup?

Thanks,

Peter

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Re: Hands on with Windows Live Movie Maker

PeterF — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:45:38 GMT

hi Stacey

Actually it can do that. So what would I need to capture it?

Live view is just a marketing term for being able to display to the LCD in stead of having to look through the viewfinder, something any cheaper compact can already do for years

Peter

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Re: Hands on with Windows Live Movie Maker

PeterF — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:20:02 GMT

It's a nice camera, isn't it

I was looking for a link to a sample video file, but I guess that's not needed now!

Let's hope it's a small compatibility issue that can be resolved easily.

Thanks for the heads up.

Peter

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Re: Hands on with Windows Live Movie Maker

PeterF — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:53:27 GMT

Congratulations with the release!

Too bad I can't use it yet, the Canon 5D Mark II generates H264 HD 30fps mov files, but I haven't found a codec yet which is supported by Move Maker. Expression Encoder 3 does support it using the Cineform Neo Player codec, but it really lacks a rotate by 90 degrees function.

Anyway, I'm hoping that either Canon will release a compatible codec or Move Maker could support this variation of the H264 codec

Thanks!

Peter

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Re: Ricardo Mendes on Host Integration Server

PeterF — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:29:33 GMT

A new form of advertisement?

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Re: Vertigo Software: I See Dead People with WPF

PeterF — Wed, 23 May 2007 22:24:51 GMT

Nice application. It really shows off the talent of both Vertigo developers and the developers of the .NET framework.

One small bug: don't try to drag out text from a details view textbox control into the canvas

Peter

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Re: MultiPoint: What. How. Why.

PeterF — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:32:42 GMT

osigurdson wrote:

It would be great to see this technology applied to touch screen interfaces.

I would think that's the only logical next step. At the moment touchscreens don't allow you to rotate objects based on two points. I look forward seeing this result into a common API for both application developers as well as hardware manufacturers/driver developers.

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Re: ADO.NET Entity Framework: What. How. Why.

PeterF — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:04:12 GMT

Interesting stuff. Only thing that wasn't highlighted was when you actually change the database tables and how that is automatically handled.
I would expect a seperate XML file with these mappings which you could update if things would have been changed to a point that automatic handling fails...
Is there also another view for checking the mappings?

Peter

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Re: Wix team: The most used piece of software at Microsoft (and it's open source!)

PeterF — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 20:36:51 GMT

edit: Sorry, first I really had to make sure I was the second poster, then I edited it to make my point, and after that I noticed your comment as well, honestly. BTW, you edited as well

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Re: Wix team: The most used piece of software at Microsoft (and it's open source!)

PeterF — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 20:31:17 GMT

Sorry I don't have anything to say about the content yet. Going to watch it later after we went out to the city (Queensday in Holland).

Until then: I posted after stupid

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Re: Robert Fripp - Behind the scenes at Windows Vista recording session

PeterF — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 22:49:21 GMT

You're probably just jealous that he's more famous and has accomplished a lot and people are prepared to pay him for that.

But indeed, the sounds must be really good so they are not turned off. As long as they do not influence startup and logoff time and can be be set on a loudness level that is independent of whatever is the loudness level you used the last time Like turning on the pc at midnight while the girlfriend is sleeping, and not knowing she listened to loud music in the afternoon

My 2cts

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Re: Windows Vista Tattoo

PeterF — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 10:46:09 GMT

Skip to the end, she colored it in.

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Re: Windows Vista Tattoo

PeterF — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:35:42 GMT

Beer28 wrote:

what happens if you like some other operating system better in the future?(like oh say.... well, I better not)
I see alot of painful laser treatments in your future.

Perhaps that's why you don't have a tattoo?

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Re: Tim Sneath - Inside Windows Vista Printing

PeterF — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:06:44 GMT

Although the spool file reduction would more benefit vector graphics applications I've also got curious about the Windows Media image compression file format from reading the XPS spec. I wonder what the compression/quality factors are and if it will also become pitched as a gif/jpg replacement just like png.

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Re: Tim Sneath - Inside Windows Vista Printing

PeterF — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:47:37 GMT

I think you confuse two things:
One thing is the ability to print a document. This is something that PDF also has, not allowing printing. With XPS you can allow only certain people to print.

Second is the ability to send an encrypted job to the printer. The printer should then show a dialog prompting the user to authenticate. This is something that is currently implemented by many printer manufacturers, and is done in the printer driver.

My guess is that the first scenario is handled by the XPS viewer.
The second scenario should be handled by the printer, as with XPS encryption/authentication isn't a driver feature anymore.

My 2 cts
Good luck with your application. If I were you I would contact several printer manufacturers and ask if they could support your use case.

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Re: Tim Sneath - Inside Windows Vista Printing

PeterF — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 08:18:40 GMT

The printer would need a new interpreter for XPS.
However, the print path in Vista should also have optimized conversions to Postscript/PCL, probably in the GDI to EMF conversion area, so you should get better print-out. I wonder however if this will be a Vista-only feature for older drivers... (they are backporting the new print-path to XP/2003, but also these optimalisations?)

Vista would ship XPS drivers out of the box for printers that are going to be released/updated around the time of Vista release, but that's up to the printer manufacturer. In the corporate market customers generally update the printer drivers with the latest ones from the manufacturer. In the consumer market it helps to have a printer working out-of-the-box. Depending on the consumer's technical skills they could still decide to update to the ones from the manufacturer CD/website/windows update.

There are restrictions on the size of the drivers you may inbox in Windows, and you need to share source code, so that Microsoft can also compile your driver against the latest driver development kit at any time and do regression tests.

Peter

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Re: Tim Sneath - Inside Windows Vista Printing

PeterF — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:06:39 GMT

Metro was the codename of XPS print path.

As a developer you would need to support 'Avalon' XAML.
As a printer driver developer you would either 'enhance' your existing printer driver with the XML based DeviceCapabilities and PrintTicket API's, or build a XAML printer driver from the ground up.

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Re: Tim Sneath - Inside Windows Vista Printing

PeterF — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:41:34 GMT

With the filter pipeline in XPS drivers however it would become simpler to do this for any application from inside the driver.

Reversing page order is something the application has to do at the moment.

However, the downside from reversing page order in the driver is that the printer doesn't receive anything until the last page has been spooled.

A better (mechanical) solution is a smarter design of the output tray.

Peter

Ps. Nice to see the people we met at DevCon. Special thanks go to John for showing us the way to the Irish pub in Seattle

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Re: Dave Luebbert - The mentor from early days on Word for Mac team

PeterF — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 22:23:33 GMT

Only proof that there are plenty of other men who like to wear pink shirts

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Re: Don Box - What goes into a great technical presentation?

PeterF — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:09:24 GMT

You also have to see the joy on people's faces afterwards when they are playing with their Tech'Ed 2002 chemical camping lights

That was the first time I heard the name Don Box and I didn't forget that name because it seemed that I absolutely had to go to one of his presentations in order to get some cool goodies... well that wasn't exactly the reason to go to one of his presentations, but it sure helped to get his name on my famous tech peoples list and buy his XML book and let him sign it the year later

Rock on and next time give the band more playtime, you might manage that by talking more softly in stead of slower

Peter

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Re: Amanda Silver - Getting into Visual Basic.NET

PeterF — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:07:56 GMT

Why does it always have to be a man thing to get distracted by appearences and why don't women make comments on how Scoble's warm voice make them weak in the knees?

Keep on the good work.

Peter

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Re: Joe Stegman - Building Outlook UI in 100 lines of code with Winforms

PeterF — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:44:05 GMT

Hey I could have sworn that I read next week before!
You know Soon(tm) is trademarked allready by MatroxUsers and we all know about the impact of that word;-)

Ok, looking forward to it Soon(tm).
Have a nice weekend,
Peter

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