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Weird ImageListStreamer InvalidOperationException

One of our MacroView Studio customers sent a strange stack trace from an application crash yesterday. It's strange in that the standard Windows Forms ImageListStreamer class is where the exception...

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January 11, 2007
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Line Margin Selection Edit Control Request

This post is a request to Syncfusion for an additional feature in their Edit Control functionality. The blog was just a convenient place to put a screencast related to the feature request submitted...

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January 5, 2007
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WPF/E Linkfest and thoughts

Yesterday a whole bunch of beta and CTP versions of new Microsoft software was made available. Included was the first CTP (Community Tech Preview) of the WPF/E functionality that was mentioned in my...

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December 6, 2006
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Windows Bootstrapper build problem

The following error message occurred in Visual Studio 2003 deployment build while working on the MacroView OPC Metaserver functionality today: ERROR: General failure building bootstrapper ERROR:...

December 3, 2006
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MacroView User Group Screencasts

The MacroView User Group was held on 16th November. It was hosted by a MacroView customer CSBP. Many thanks to Brian McCully and CSBP for hosting the event which was a great success....

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December 1, 2006
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Syncfusion Tabs and iTunes

I discovered a strange display problem when using a Syncfusion based application layered over the top of iTunes. Occasionally the whole application window gets repainted if an iTunes window is below...

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November 22, 2006
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Advertising Quid Pro Quo

The recent screencast work put together and posted today was satisfying in that I now have a means of showing some software related concept once and publishing it for repeated viewing. Yeah.....

October 24, 2006
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