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February 2010 - Posts

• How to detect the build date from the assembly version information

  This could help on client sites where they've not changed the out of the box default assemblyinfo settings, and you want to know when a build was made of a particular assembly http://www.geekproject.com/showtopic.aspx?ID=21 When you specify that you want Read More... Posted 18 February 2010 09:46 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: C#, .NET 3.5, Howto

• Using XAML files for your configuration (instead of standard xml .config files)

  Update: 16:37 09/07/2010 – For a more fuller explanation of how to do this see this post - http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/xamlconfig.aspx?msg=3409766#xx3409766xx The following code snippet shows an example of how to load a Configuration class, from Read More... Posted 16 February 2010 14:42 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: C#, .NET 3.5, Howto, WPF

• Fraps screen shot and video capture

  Fraps The gamers here on my project just pointed me in the direction of a nice little utility, which at first I was looking at to detect the frame rate in my WPF application, but then realised it's also excellent (better than Camtasia in any case), at Read More... Posted 11 February 2010 16:21 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Howto, Media Streaming, Windows Media Player

• Media Streaming in Windows 7 and WPF (Part 2)

  In Part 1 I discussed how you can stream windows media from windows 7 machine using windows media player 12 to another. Here I'll show you how you can open an rtsp stream in a WPF windows application using the VLC media player WPF control ( http://vlcdotnet.codeplex.com/ Read More... Posted 01 February 2010 12:04 by merrick.chaffer | 1 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio, code, .NET 3.5, Howto, WPF

• Media Streaming in Windows 7 and WPF (Part 1)

  In this post, I've undertaken the task to blog about my experiences in streaming of media in windows 7 and furthermore getting rtsp streams to appear in a WPF windows application. In part 1 here, I will demonstrate the settings that you need to go through Read More... Posted 01 February 2010 10:03 by merrick.chaffer | 1 Comments