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Introducing CardSharkV
Check out this program I’ve developed, called CardSharkV. It’s a digital picture storage card/camera “downloader” with a twist. It’s a bit of an experiment, and I’m looking for some real-world “beta” testers. My plan is to try my hand at charging for the program. But to see if word will spread, I’m planning to give
Microsoft deprecates support for XBAP WPF apps in version 5.3 of the Media Center SDK
I downloaded and installed the latest version of the Media Center SDK just now, and was a bit surprised to see that WPF apps are now officially deprecated as a supported way of extending Windows Media Center on Vista. There’s no big announcement around this so far, it’s almost just a footnote in the “What’s
How to parse "special" .lnk files, aka. MSI shortcuts aka. Windows Installer advertised shortcuts using C#
[Update 2012-02-04: Jonathan pointed out a few additional things in the comments.] [Update 2010-01-20: It looks like the calls to MsiGetShortcutTarget() and MsiGetComponentPath() only work correctly on Windows 7 if you make them from a thread that has STA apartment state. So if you do a lengthy operation like iterating through the entire Start menu
Get Satisfied: How Twenty People Like You Found the Satisfaction of Enough – a short review
I got my copy of “Get Satisfied” this Tuesday night. I began reading it Friday night and found it very interesting. There are stories from every part of the country, written by people from, it seems, every walk of life. I finished it this evening. The one story that made the book worth reading for