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WP7 / Zune HD poor travel clocks?

Is there no way to change the time zone on a WP7? Or did I not properly RTM? We are taking a break from the heat and we are cruising around the North Sea up to the Article Circle. I have tried to use my Zune HD and WP7 as travel clocks and have beenContinue reading “WP7 / Zune HD poor travel clocks?”

Visio Shape for Theatre Lighting

A few years ago I came across a document from the USITT, “USITT RP-2 Recommended Practice for Theatrical Lighting Design Graphics”, that illustrated the graphics to be used in Theatre lighting. It looked like a good example for Visio shapes, so I created a collection. Rather than a shape for shape creation, this is aContinue reading “Visio Shape for Theatre Lighting”

C# – The new APL?

Thanks to a heads up by HockeyGeekGirl, I have spent the last few days dissecting and digesting a new Mango example for handling a database. It is more than what I need, but it is useful exploring the code to figure out what makes it tick. My immediate interest is to dynamically create PivotItems forContinue reading “C# – The new APL?”

WP7 Database Caveat

Lately I have been playing with Pivots for the WP7 and how to add filtering. I did have a MVVM example that I was able to add filtering and convert it to a pivot, but I am not sure the final result was the best way. Susan Ibach, aka HockeyGeekGirl, pointed me to a recent postContinue reading “WP7 Database Caveat”

Guitar Electronics/Pickup Shapes for Microsoft Visio

Along with a link to “How to switch a Visio TV to USB” in my daily Google Alert on anything Visio was a little gem about creating pickup shapes for a Telecaster in Visio. The link brought me to the Telecaster forums where there was a lively discussion on how to create the shapes The OPContinue reading “Guitar Electronics/Pickup Shapes for Microsoft Visio”

Whats’ in a name?

You are working on your app and you realize that Test233 is not a great name for an app, so how do you change it. Just rename the file? Not quite. You can select the project in Visual Studio and chose the rename function, but this is only the start. Next is to go throughContinue reading “Whats’ in a name?”

Visio GeoTrax

Any time I get bored I do a web search on keywords. Today I was looking for an old Visio logo and did a Bing on “Visio 1”. One of the interesting discovery was a stencil for Geotrax http://malweth.net/geotrax/index.html Link broken ;-( For more on Fisher Prices GeoTrax go to http://www.fisher-price.com/fp.aspx?st=5754&e=product&pid=62714&pcat=geotraxgeoplaces Link broken ;-( JohnContinue reading “Visio GeoTrax”

Mangoed

Last night’s project was to try out Mango on my phone. I am not a heavy phone user, so I did not have a lot to lose if anything went wrong. The instructions were relatively straight forward, but there were a few issues. The preamble could have hinted that all your settings in Zune wouldContinue reading “Mangoed”

Time to get a fruity phone.

No, I am not switching to an Iphone. I just got the invitation to be part of the Mango beta. The upgrade to the WP7 SDK hinted at some tempting features and I am now eager to actually try it on a real device. Earlier this week, One of the local Microsoft reps let me playContinue reading “Time to get a fruity phone.”

Visio Group on Drop

I spent a few hours tonight trying to figure out why dropping a shape onto a group was no longer working. The concept is that you can specify a shape as a group and then drop another shape on top of it and the second shape becomes part of the original group. This requires thatContinue reading “Visio Group on Drop”