November 2008 Entries
If you want to connect your iPod to your Xbox 360 and be able to play your music you are going to need to download the free Optional Media Update to play unprotected music (AAC format), which is the format that the iPod and Zune uses. I found this how-to which explains how to download it on the old dashboard. Here are the instructions on how to download the update on the New Xbox Experience dashboard. 1. Sign in to Xbox Live 2. Press the Xbox Guide Button (the big silver X button in the center of...
A couple of months back I had decided to turn an old laptop into a digital picture frame (DPF). This post is not about how to turn the laptop into a DPF, but rather how I integrated the DPF with Live Mesh. There are plenty of articles and blogs on how to create your own DPF here. My overall architecture of the project: Old Laptop running Windows XP. Windows Slide Show pointing to a Live Mesh Folder. Custom written code to restart the slide show. Scheduled task to hibernate and wake up the computer (to save...
When Visual Studio 2008 came out I thought they got rid of the Add Web Reference dialog used to add web services. If you right click on a Class Library project targeting .NET 3.5 you only had the choice to add two types of references by default: Add Reference and Add Service Reference. I guess they are pushing the use of WCF. Today I did some digging around and found a way to bring the good old Add Web Reference back (well sort of “back”). You have to Add a Service Reference by right clicking...
I opened a Connect bug for a problem I found with Visual Studio 2008 ASP.NET Source View. The problem is that when using the style attribute of an html tag VS doesn’t close the ending tag. In the video bellow I show how to replicate it. You can easily see what I mean by typing “<table>” (without the quotes) and see how VS closes the ending tag of the table tag automatically. If instead you do “<table style=’some-style: somevalue;’>” VS 2008 doesn’t add the ending “</table>” tag. Watch the video for more details and if you have the same problem...