johnvisiomvp

Which way is up?

I have been programing for decades and fell into a rut with VBA. It was so easy to code. With the introduction of WP7 I bit the bit the bullet and took another look at C#. I had played with C when it first came out (that is the original C with no qualifiers 😉Continue reading “Which way is up?”

WP7 Battery Life

My Windows phone has not been known for quick charging, but I fould out a new issue with the battery. I had the phoned tethered to my laptop for charging and downloading and used one of the USB ports that made the cable get in the way. When the phone was fully charged, I disconnected theContinue reading “WP7 Battery Life”

XAML Quirk

Just to be thorough on my testing, I tried setting the theme on one of my WP7 to light. Surprisingly, it turned out that one of the grids was not as wide as I thought and two white bands appeared on either side. Examining the XAML should no reason for the bands. With the darkContinue reading “XAML Quirk”

Visio Shape Data Dialog box

You can add shape data in several places in Visio. To a shape, to a page or to a document. The first two have a dialog associated with them so the user can use the UI to modify the values. Though you can add shape data to the document shapesheet, you can not easily manipulateContinue reading “Visio Shape Data Dialog box”

Visio WP7 stencil

Someone asked in the AppHub if there was a Visio stencil for Windows Phone 7. There actually was one created by a member of the WP7 team and I was able to get a copy. It is a basic stencil, but I am currently upgrading it to be more Visio-like. Most of this can beContinue reading “Visio WP7 stencil”

Upgrading to Expression Web

This week there were changes to the site that hosts Visio.MVPs.org and the site lost it’s navigation capabilities so I had to scramble and upgrade the site from FrontPage to Expression Web. In general, it was a very painless experience, but there was a lot to learn. Using Master.dwtmade life very easy, but for someContinue reading “Upgrading to Expression Web”

This camera is worth the overhead

When it first came out, I picked up a 720P LifeCam. It was a good webcam until I saw a presentation by fellow MVP Rob Miles where he used the same model of camera as an overhead camera for demonstrating Windows Phone 7. The camera was held to a small camera tripod by duct tapeContinue reading “This camera is worth the overhead”

PowerPoint 2010 Transitions

PowerPoint 2010 comes with more transitions. The following VBA code will cycle through all the slides in a slide deck and add a different transition to each slide. If there are more slides than transitions, the transitions are reused. Public Sub SetTransition() Dim Transitions() As Variant Dim trans1 As Integer Dim sld As slide Transitions()Continue reading “PowerPoint 2010 Transitions”

Windows Phone 7 Calendar – TMI

One annnoyance I have with the WP7 calendar is that if I want to leave a reminder for a given day, for example a reminder for a birthday, the calendar insists on displaying that the event is “All Day” and “1 day”. Definitely Too Much Information. Don’t all day events take one day? For mostContinue reading “Windows Phone 7 Calendar – TMI”

What does XNA stand for?

I just watched Rob Miles Mix11 session and he asked that question. I did a little Googling and I came up with Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport http://www.flyxna.com/about/ Though there are flights from there to Chicago, New York, Dallas and LA, there does not appear to be any direct flights to Seattle. If there were IContinue reading “What does XNA stand for?”