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Audio and image support – Gotcha!

I’m currently working on a WPF application to extend a Silverlight control to support the capture of audio and webcam still images.   All seems to be going pretty well using a Logitech QuickCam Communicate STX as the capture device, using Avicap32.dll to handle images and NAudio for the audio.
Or so I thought.  When I deployed [...]

Hint text in ASP.NET TextBox controls

More and more often these days, you see hint text in a textbox control on a web form.  You know the kind of thing – “user name” or “password” appearing in silver text within an input control.  Well, I had to implement that functionality today and it is surprisingly easy to achieve.
The first thing you [...]

Multiple Async calls to a web service

I’m currently working on a project that requires making several concurrent asynchronous calls to a web service.  Now, the service work fine synchrounously, but change the pattern slightly and I was getting the following error.
“There was an error during asynchronous processing. Unique state object is required for multiple asynchronous simultaneous operations to be outstanding.”
The solution, [...]

Windows Home Server RC2

I’ve just installed the RC2 release of Windows Home Server. It looks pretty good, to be honest. I wasn’t expecting much, but the feature set seems to be rich enough for most users’ purposes. I’ll update this post later when I can tell you how it’s getting along.
**UPDATE**
I’ve just spent a few hours playing with [...]