Have you ever tried watching a code walkthrough video, wanting to follow along with visual studio but have a hard time because the video players are too small for you to read the code? and when you do full screen, you’ll have to pause and play while you “unfullscreen” to switch to Visual Studio to… Continue reading Tip the Day: watch videos on extended monitor while working on primary
Making Your Win7 JumpLists Trigger on the Same Application Instance
As promised in my previous post, I’ll be talking about how to create jumplist integrated single instance applications, much like how Outlook, Windows Media Player. At first, i thought it would need to involve a bit of windows messaging but then I found this blog post that details how to create single instance WPF applications.… Continue reading Making Your Win7 JumpLists Trigger on the Same Application Instance
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Managing WPF Screens with Windows 7 Jumplists and the Visual State Manager
We’re having our Singapore launch of Windows 7 this November and in honor of that, I’ll be devoting my upcoming (and long overdue) TechFridays to everything Windows 7. For this post, I'll be talking about how you can use the Visual State Manager for WPF to manage the different screen states in your application in… Continue reading Managing WPF Screens with Windows 7 Jumplists and the Visual State Manager
First long distance bike ride!
Last weekend, my team at work had an outing at East Coast Park and thanks to @nenggiin we had an awesome time, going on a pseudo scavenger hunt on bikes. 🙂 Prior to that, I think the last time I remember being on a bike was when I was 8 years old. Back then, I… Continue reading First long distance bike ride!
TechFriday: Jumping into Jumplists
Everybody’s excited about Windows 7 and there might be a few of you guys out there wanting to take advantage of some of the new features of the OS in your applications. In this post, I’ll show you how you can quickly add Jumplist support to your existing application (Yes, even WinForms applications) In order… Continue reading TechFriday: Jumping into Jumplists
TechFriday: Building Custom Behaviors
Okay, I missed Tech Friday, so I decided to make it Tech Weekend instead. I attended the June Mix-It-Up: Re-MIX last Thursday and was able to catch up a bit on the new technologies. I have been busy with a few other things at work and I am ashamed to say, I have been lagging… Continue reading TechFriday: Building Custom Behaviors
Housekeeping..
I decided to clean up my blog over the weekend. Actually, I was considering for a while there buying yet another domain and starting all over but then I realized, there really wasn’t any point to that. I had just become lazy to maintain this one because I felt it had become a bit messy.… Continue reading Housekeeping..
Tech Friday: Your Own Custom Search Providers
Not the most techie thing to do but hey, today isn’t the greatest day to be using much of my brain as most of it is concentrating on agonizing on pain. I was browsing around the blogs I monitor and found a post by Long Zheng talking about a little experiment that showed how much… Continue reading Tech Friday: Your Own Custom Search Providers
Tech Friday: The Orientator
I was thinking of an app to build for tech Friday and I remember running in to @willyfoo the other day. He mentioned he needed an application that would read in EXIF data from photographs and rotate them based on the orientation meta tag. It was quite a good exercise cause it allowed me to… Continue reading Tech Friday: The Orientator
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