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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 7:07 PM

Synchronize your files across machines with Mesh

I have a collection of almost 30,000 pictures and videos. When I add new pictures to the collection, I had been running a script file to synchronize the collection across various machines. for %%s in (\\calvinh6\e$ \\calvinh3\e$ \\calvinh4\e$) do ( robocopy
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 11:15 AM

Magnify your pictures using a PictureBox so that you can zoom with the Mouse Wheel

Today’s digital cameras take pictures with much higher resolution than many computer screens. My Canon PowerShot SD800 IS camera takes pictures at 3072 x 2204 resolution. One of my laptops died recently, and I noticed that local laptop retailers have
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Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:23 PM

Compress and timestamp your pictures to gain disk space

I was running out of space again on my notebook. As years go by, digital cameras can take pictures with more megapixels, but that means they take up more space. Thus my pictures from 10 years ago are much smaller than this year’s. Since I have multiple
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Monday, January 07, 2008 1:35 PM

Uninstall VB6 causes error message: You do not have a license to use this control

I was running out of disk space on one of my machines, so I used my TreeMap program to see where I could delete files to save space. I saw that I still had VB6 on the machine, and I didn’t need it on that machine any more, so I uninstalled it. It's amazing
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 10:54 AM

Use WPF and inline XAML in your Fox, Excel or VB6 applications

My prior post showed how to create XAML WPF and put it on your Winform App. We can go one step further: add XAML to a UserControl, which could then be made into an ActiveX control, which could be hosted by Fox, VB6, or Excel. Start Visual Studio 2008
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Friday, November 30, 2007 1:10 PM

Use LINQ to Foxpro or any SQL data and display it in a WPF form using DataSetExtensions and DataRowExtensions

In the last post Create your own media browser: Display your pictures, music, movies in a XAML tooltip , we created a query of your local media and displayed it. Today, we'll make a query to my Foxpro picture database of 28,000 pictures/movies. We'll
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 10:46 AM

Create your own media browser: Display your pictures, music, movies in a XAML tooltip

In my prior post , I showed how to use XAML and XAMLReader to create inline XAML to display the results of a query. Today, let's take it a step further: let's create a query of all the media (pictures, movies, music) in your "My Documents" folder and
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Thursday, October 11, 2007 10:55 PM

Resize your pictures for your phone or pocket pc

I have many digital pictures, and I'd like to put some of my favorites on my SmartPhone . However the files are much higher resolution than the device's display. This means the files take a lot more memory on the phone, and they take longer to process.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007 11:16 AM

How to generate dynamic images for your web application

Typically, a web site might show some pictures. These could be pictures of items for sale from a catalog, personal photos, etc. Usually, the web author places these pictures as files in a directory on the web server, and just puts links to them in the
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 1:29 PM

The VB version of the Flip Task Bar for Vista Desktop Window Manager

In this post: Create your own Flip Task Bar with live thumbnails using Vista Desktop Window Manager DWM , I showed Fox code on creating your own Flip Task bar Here is the VB.Net version that does the same thing… File->New->Project->Visual Basic->Windows->Windows
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007 9:00 AM

New printers are far more capable: Canon iP4300

Our several year old ink jet printer died the other day. It was an Epson Stylus Pro 5000. I knew it was on its way out, so I had been researching printers a little recently. I knew that printer quality and features had been growing substantially in recent
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Monday, December 04, 2006 8:06 PM

Timestamp digital pictures

I was given several dozen digital photos that I wanted to add to my collection. However, the camera used did not have the date/time set. Worst still, each time the camera was turned on, the camera clock started ticking from the same time (1/1/2004 midnight).
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Thursday, September 28, 2006 11:24 AM

Play movies with an ActiveX control

I’ve been using Canon Powershot cameras for years, and they take movies in AVI format as well as being a good camera. I store my photos and movies in the same folders, and use the same database to store them. To display the movies, I add a Windows Media
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Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:47 AM

Various ways to display multiple photographs: on a Fox form

My prior 2 posts show how to display multiple photos on a VB.Net form, first using the PictureBox control, the second drawing to the form directly. Below is some code to display multiple photos on a Fox form using an array of Fox Image controls . These
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006 5:06 PM

Various ways to display multiple photographs: Using Rects and thumbs

My prior post showed how to use an array of PictureBox controls to display multiple photographs on a form. Now we’ll do something similar, but instead of using the PictureBox control, which is a little bit heavyweight, we can just draw directly onto the
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