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Jason Nadal

Restless C#ding

  • Whidbey - Hosed

    Whidbey finally gave up on my machine. All of the controls in the toolbox are greyed out, but I can copy controls from other forms onto the form I'm working on.  The properties dialog also is non-functional (greyed out). On the plus side, I'll get to test out the “Restore installation to its initial state” feature in Whidbey.  I'll update this post with the results of the attempted repair.

  • Whidbey Distributed Applications

    While exploring Whidbey, sometimes the most interesting features have a “This feature is not available in the Visual Studio 'Whidbey' Alpha release” teaser accompanying them.

  • Whidbey Gotchas

    So far, developing in Whidbey has been great, with one gotcha that I've seen so far.  I have a windows form, with 4 textboxes, 4 labels, and a couple of buttons.  Clicking on one of the textboxes, entering “Edit Properties Mode,” and changing the text property gets VS stuck in an exception loop. 

  • my first spoken post

    this is my first post from an application I am writing and to recognize speech and have it instantly show on your web log . it uses the speech API in longhorn. I will post an Alpha version as soon as I clean up the code , since it is so embarrassing right now. my initial results are pretty good and I can speak quite quickly without a great deal of corrections from the suggestions More information will come later.

  • Speech2Blog Alpha 1

    As promised, here's my first release of Speech2Blog. It will take your speech, and post it to a .Text weblog.  (Thanks Scott for clarification of the asmx address.) Since this is an Alpha release, here's the gotcha's:

  • Longhorn Sidebar RSS Howto

    Well, after trying to compile and run the RSS Newsfeed sidebar from MSDN, it threw an exception on explorer.  Notice the file “bullet.png” is not available on the web site, and just replacing it with another png file did not do the trick.