Category Archives: windows

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 … Continue reading

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Windows 7 on the MacBook

I’ve just installed Windows 7 on my MacBook’s BootCamp partition, and so far it looks great.  I’m not new to Win7, having had it installed in a Parallels VM since it was released.  The experience on the MacBook’s native hardware, … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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