Category Archives: microsoft

Audio and image support – Gotcha!

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Marc

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 … Continue reading →

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Hint text in ASP.NET TextBox controls

Posted on June 3, 2008 by Marc

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 … Continue reading →

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Multiple Async calls to a web service

Posted on May 21, 2008 by Marc

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 … Continue reading →

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Windows Home Server RC2

Posted on June 16, 2007 by Marc

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 … Continue reading →

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