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I had downloaded the latest Deep Zoom composer and was working with it to create a project with many images. Once done with the scenario, when I went to the export tab, I found that the export button was disabled. I could not figure out a way to enable it. Even providing the output path didn't help and I could not get any specific answers online.

Later I realized that this was happening since I had exceeded 4 billion pixels and hence the export wasn't working. This message was put in the bottom right corner of the application in the composer tab (see image below) and hence i had missed seeing it earlier. The "Learn More" link however doesn't help as well and only points to the Expression Blog. Reducing the # images, I was later able to export successfully.

Posted by Atul Gupta at 07:36 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Few weeks back I posted a blog entry about hosting a Flash movie in a WPF project. There are situations when a project team may want to leverage the investments done in Flash movie development, but may want to strictly stay within the Microsoft technology stack for executing the entire project. 

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Why would I build an application that doesn't run? Somewhere I recently read about catchy titles and that it helps attract people to read it. So I thought of this title. Hopefully it is catchy enough :-).

Well, if you have been working on .net, you know possibly that .net applications when run from network path, are categorized as LocalIntranet and thus have reduced security priviledges and this causes exceptions when running the application. This has been addressed with .net 3.5 SP1 and now you can run your applications of the network path without issues. Read more about this here and here.

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Earlier today I downloaded VS 2008 SP1 and also .NET framework 3.5 SP1. The framework SP1 installed without issues, but the VS 2008 SP1 failed. When I looked into the log file, it said something about KB945140 failed to install. I searched online and was surprised to find this pointing to VS 2008 SP1 Beta. This didn't made sense. Why would RTM version point to Beta version?

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Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .net framework 3.5 SP1 released versions are now available. See here the summary of fixes in this service pack. What is also now available is the WPF DataGrid CTP Release. See here for details on its features. It is available on WPF Codeplex site for download along with some information on WPF Futures.

A sample that Vincent has put together for DataGrid can be seen here. I am going ahead and downloading the DataGrid control. If you are also working with this version, do share your feedback on this control.  

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If you have been following updates from Microsoft, you would already be aware that SQL 2008 RTM is finally available. I also downloaded this version from MSDN subscriber downloads and asked my team (who has been actively following up on all earlier CTP releases) to use this version and get going.

We were surprised to find that we could not install SQL 2008 on our dev boxes since RTM depends on Visual Studio 2008 SP1, which hasn't been released as yet (expected next week). We could very well install this on a box without Visual Studio, so this, fortunately, wasn't a major roadblock. Read more about this dependancy here.

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In previous article I talked about Offline Web applications and how local database storage is central to make this happen.  In  this article I will show you how to build a simple local database in Silverlight using Isolated Storage and LINQ.

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Consider a  travelling salesman who uses online applications to access his emails, keep a tab of his appointments and to store his contact information. Since he will be  travelling most of the time, he may not access to internet connection all the time. When he is offline, he can no longer access his favorite online applications.

The HTML5 specification tries to address this by providing  two solutions: local data storage and an offline application HTTP cache which makes sure application is available when user is not connected. Currently Firefox 3 is planning to support these capabilities. It will be interesting to see how the other browsers support this specification.

Continue reading "Offline Web Applications" »

Posted by Sriram Balaji at 11:08 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Earlier today I modified the desktop background picture on my Vista machine and realized that the light tone of the image, caused the text of desktop icons to become unreadable due to their default white color. This I thought was easily fixed by modifying the font color, but i was surprised to not find any option to do that within my Aero theme. This was something I could easily do in XP.

Some of the online solutions seemed to point to revert to classic theme and that this text color change wasn't possible in Aero. This was very disappointing. Then I found this. The suggestion here worked. I initially set the desktop background to solid White color. This caused the text color of desktop icons to become black and I then set the picture i had set earlier. Not a very elegant way, but this did get me to the state I wanted to be in.

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Check our the new set of Windows Live Tools available that work with Visual Studio 2008. These also include the ASP.NET Virtual Earth Control and you can find detailed video introductions here.

Since I now work more closely with Silverlight, I look forward to the easier integration of Virtual earth with Silverlight and easy usage.

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