littleguru said:

GoddersUK said:

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Oh... Interesting!

With Windows Live Movie Maker, we started by building the 20%, and we're working really hard to add the other 80 percent now. (Trust me, we're good at adding the more complicated bits.)

Larry Osterman said:

You see on the upper right corner the link that says "Send Feedback"?  Click on it and fill in the form.

Trust me, every one of the submissions IS looked at (I know, because I've already gotten 3 bugs filed against me based on that information from the beta participants).

mVPstar said:

Sven Groot said:

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Us normal people open Media Player to play media.

Silly designers.

"I think it starts faster for him (no idea how to measure that if it won't start in that view), so he just wants to go there and use Ctrl+O. I think"

Just out of curiosity, did you let WMP load all your media the first time you opened it?

Sven Groot said:

Bas said:

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So what's the point of showing the now playing view if you clicked the WMP icon, which means that nothing is playing? You can't get anything to start playing from that view either, so I really don't see what the idea would be there.

jamie said:

Sven Groot said:

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..if you used saved searches?  was easier to figure out in 7 anyway


re-above -   the black small tuner ... not the explorer style view

tfraser said:

What you're trying to do definitely works. I tried it by implementing the MCI in the simplest form that I could and now have music playing from a blank console window.

Put this into a new class called 'File' and remember to reference the System.Runtime.InteropServices namespace:

[DllImport("winmm.dll")]

static extern int mciSendString(string mciCommand, StringBuilder buffer, int bufferSize, IntPtr callback);
string fileName;

public void Send(string mciCommand)
{
    mciSendString(mciCommand, null, 0, IntPtr.Zero);
}

public File(string fileLocation)
{
    fileName = fileLocation;
    Send("open " + fileName);
}

public void Play()
{
    Send("play " + fileName);
}

Then drop this into your startup object:

File file = new File("C:/Test.mp3");
file.Play();
string input = Console.ReadLine();

It should work now. At the moment it won't do anything other than play the file but the MSDN section on MCI describes all the additional commands that can be called.

ulas said:

stevo_ said:

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Ah, thanks for the link. I am pretty happy with the expressiveness of Linq in terms of simplifying a lot of mundane tasks one tends to do in code. It is just a bit of a downer to get everything compiling happily and then hit a runtime exception when the expression is evaluated. I realize, in a way, this is similar to trying to dividing one variable with another which may happen to be zero which would throw you a runtime exception but I just feel like checking which functions you use in the linq expression at compile time wouldn't be as difficult.

blowdart said:

TommyCarlier said:

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Yea and my machine has twicer your memory and a faster processor. Mind you I have full blown team suite, but still

cheong said:

Perhaps you should just post a link to your survey?

corona_coder said:

mVPstar said:

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I will be posting until the elections over and I will announce the winner personally on Channel 9.

corona_coder said:

Minh said:

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Dont worry McCains Red will shine on the map soon enough.  We are kicking Obama butt in the south.  North Carolina is ours and so will be Florida.

We will prevail.

UPDATE:  West Virginia ours, North Carolina 51 Obama, 49 McCain basically ours.  We are climbing the ladder to victory.

McCain/Palin '08

littleguru said:

And you did it even worse: you started a separate thread on it!

Harlequin said:

turrican said:

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He's an idiot, just change the subject.

Subject Change:
If you went to the PDC, where did you go on your off hours, like night times, or if you got there on Sunday? Did anyone else hit Hollywood? Amazed at all the tattoo shops near Hollywood and Vine

Bas said:

mVPstar said:

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That's what I'm saying. But even with the sidebar on, I don't see how it takes up screen real estate.

Bas said:

littleguru said:

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A. The gadgets could always run free.
B. How are you 'sacrificing' a fifth of your screen when you can just place Windows over the sidebar?

GoddersUK said:

CKurt said:

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But they can't be talking about the taskbar right, because they've uploaded photos of that to their site?

HumanCompiler said:

mVPstar said:

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You could probably write a plug-in pretty easily to do just that and see if it catches on.    A right click context menu item would be nice too (not sure what all is possible per browser).

HumanCompiler said:

turrican said:

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What would you suggest?  Frames?

Not that I don't totally disagree with the general principle of what you're saying, but I think at this point, if websites started using frames again and putting menus that don't move at the top again I think THAT would be a usability flaw as internet users won't be acustomed to it.

It's really easy to get around.  Hit the Home key and you're at the menu. 

It seems sort of interesting to think about how websites could integrate into the browser though (context menus, skinning, etc).

Bas said:

Duncanma said:

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Has anyone here played Fable 2 in multiplayer yet? I wonder how that is.

Of course, with a friends list of one, I suppose there's not much multiplaying going on for me.

GoddersUK said:

Looks like they broke microsoft.co.uk

CKurt said:

joechung said:

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I also get redirect to that site when i visit www.microsoft.com.

The menu should me more like www.windows.com menu