Author Archives: XIU

Resizing images with WPF 4.0

Posted on July 15, 2010 by XIU

Microsoft changed the default behaviour for scaling images with WPF 4.0/.NET 4.0. They opted for a faster but less accurate scaling algorithm named Linear instead of the default Fant that was used in WPF 3.0. You can change this behaviour using the … Continue reading →

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Resizer

Posted on July 14, 2010 by XIU

I’ve been working on a little project to demo the features of Vidyano. It’s used internally to generate the thumbnails for our Wiki. The source code is available on codeplex and the application is deployed as click-once. I’ll be talking about … Continue reading →

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iRail.be is back online

Posted on July 6, 2010 by XIU

iRail.be is a website to find train information here in Belgium, it scraped the original complicated website of the NMBS and provided a clean/simple interface to access the information. More info on the blogpost.

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Vidyano 2.0 released

Posted on July 1, 2010 by XIU

I’m proud to announce that our team has finished our next major version of Vidyano. Build from scratch to optimize everything for the latest .NET 4.0 release and using all latest features of it (MEF, Rx, …). The User Interface … Continue reading →

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.NET 4.0

Posted on June 20, 2010 by XIU

Some updated download links for the latest .NET version: Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Web Installer) Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express Downloads Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 Microsoft Expression Blend® 4 Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) Snoop WPF4 .NET Reflector Vidyano … Continue reading →

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Rails dynamic finders for .NET 4.0

Posted on June 19, 2010 by XIU

Ruby on Rails allows you to use ‘dynamic’ finders to query the database. This is actually a feature from ActiveRecord to dynamicly use methods which will represent where clauses on the database. Some examples: User.find(:first, :conditions => [“name = ?”, … Continue reading →

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Vidyano Release Candidate

Posted on November 30, 2008 by XIU

UPDATE: Vidyano 2.0 released The Vidyano Release Candidate is now available Together with a new website we offer complete support now for any application build with Vidyano, think of it as a Go Live license. More information (including documentation, tutorials … Continue reading →

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