Comment Feed for Vertigo Software: I See Dead People with WPF (Inside Out on Channel 9)

Re: Vertigo Software: I See Dead People with WPF

dcharles — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:15:39 GMT

great software; the video on the vertigo website demonstrates the whole thing beautifully :)

Re: Vertigo Software: I See Dead People with WPF

Tim Sneath — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:41:28 GMT

CahillNet wrote:
Note to Channel 9: find a quieter place to record. I found the background conversation really distracting.

CahillNet, sorry about that - we recorded this at the MIX conference Las Vegas, and this was actually the quietest place around (we took over one of the press briefing rooms). Maybe we can find a better directional microphone next time. Hope it didn't ruin the video completely.

Re: Vertigo Software: I See Dead People with WPF

odegnan — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:37:36 GMT

This is so cool. Vertigo rocks! Thanks guys.

Re: Vertigo Software: I See Dead People with WPF

RoyalSchrubber — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 14:06:56 GMT

I've tried it on Vista and it works fine, but on XP I have few annoying troubles with graphics. Anyone experiencing same thing?

Re: Vertigo Software: I See Dead People with WPF

CahillNet — Fri, 25 May 2007 01:56:08 GMT

Great stuff!!

Note to Channel 9: find a quieter place to record. I found the background conversation really distracting.

Re: Vertigo Software: I See Dead People with WPF

alanle — Thu, 24 May 2007 23:27:30 GMT

staceyw wrote:
Cool app! Q. When adding women (i.e. my wife) do I use her birth name or my last name?

A. It's open to interpretations, so either will work. To reduce complexity we didn't distinguish maiden name from the married last name.

Re: Vertigo Software: I See Dead People with WPF

alanle — Thu, 24 May 2007 18:07:22 GMT

caffeineHi wrote:
You might want to state what version of GEDCOM this is compatible with. 5.5 is current. You may want to either say GEDCOM 5.5 or do some testing.

Hi CaffieneHi,

You're correct. Family.show is compatible with importing and exporting GEDCOM 5.5.

I can't seem to find the "Family" Schema. What Genealogy XML specification did you use?

Our .family file is the serialized representation of the family.show .NET objects and not the Genealogy GEDCOM 6.0 beta schema.

Hope this helps,
Alan Le

Re: Vertigo Software: I See Dead People with WPF

Chris Pietschmann — Thu, 24 May 2007 17:15:02 GMT

All I have to say is, Awesome! I can't wait to go check out the code!

Re: Vertigo Software: I See Dead People with WPF

Flatliner — Thu, 24 May 2007 14:09:11 GMT

One thing I thought would be really handy, would be for Family.show to support import of selected Contact information from Outlook, Windows Address Book or even just .vcf files for your siblings and parents. Obviously would have to do this after you had entered their name and relationship first.

Basically once you've entered a name, have an Import Details button on the Details panel.

I guess I've got the code... feel free to tell me to do it myself :)

Re: Vertigo Software: I See Dead People with WPF

caffeineHi — Thu, 24 May 2007 12:34:23 GMT

You might want to state what version of GEDCOM this is compatible with. 5.5 is current. You may want to either say GEDCOM 5.5 or do some testing.

Re: Vertigo Software: I See Dead People with WPF

caffeineHi — Thu, 24 May 2007 12:15:28 GMT

If you have ever tried to write a GEDCOM parser you can really appreciate the complexity of such an application. GEDCOM is a nightmare.

I can't seem to find the "Family" Schema. What Genealogy XML specification did you use?

Re: Vertigo Software: I See Dead People with WPF

Minh — Thu, 24 May 2007 00:31:05 GMT

Hi Paul, Alan, Scott

It's Minh from the ill-fated Vertigo-Cincinnati. Great to see you guys getting huge visibility!

Re: Vertigo Software: I See Dead People with WPF

William Stacey — Wed, 23 May 2007 22:35:24 GMT

Cool app! Q. When adding women (i.e. my wife) do I use her birth name or my last name?

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

Re: Vertigo Software: I See Dead People with WPF

codinghorror — Wed, 23 May 2007 20:52:02 GMT

Hi Ion,

We haven't had time to include the licensing yet (I am sending out email reminders on this now) but you can assume it's the Microsoft Permissive License:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/licensingbasics/permissivelicense.mspx

Jeff

Re: Vertigo Software: I See Dead People with WPF

Ion Todirel — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:46:47 GMT

Vertigo is cool

Re: Vertigo Software: I See Dead People with WPF

caffeineHi — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:45:29 GMT

What kind of license is this released under? I don't see any license in the source file.

Re: Vertigo Software: I See Dead People with WPF

Charles — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:41:31 GMT

URLs fixed. Sorry 'bout that (yep, I copied the URLs from an email via OWA...)

C

Re: Vertigo Software: I See Dead People with WPF

fizban2 — Wed, 23 May 2007 16:57:05 GMT

URL is going through OWA server (very nicely setup Exchange 2007 though)

use

http://www.vertigo.com/familyshow.aspx to get to the actual page

Re: Vertigo Software: I See Dead People with WPF

CplCarrot — Wed, 23 May 2007 16:46:10 GMT

Sorry - URLs are pooched