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Water in this district I live has chemicals and stuff that are poisonous and cannot drink. The city stopped us to drink tap water for 4 weeks ago.
We: means the people in this district.
They: means the city.
They emptied our water at the old water and fill with public water.
Because the water going through our old system and the lab results of the water is not clear. Not yet! 4 weeks! How long does it take?
I think, they got the lab results longer than three, four or five weeks before they stopped us drinking toxic water. This means that we drank toxic water for quite some time.
We can see how vulnerable our society is, after all technologies and things we think we have. We cannot even conjure up water.
The Silverlight Managed Debugging Package Isn’t Installed! What error is that?
I saw the Silverlight animation on the web and I wanted to do it too.
Microsoft Silverlight technology will not work in Visual Studio 2008, so I need to update it to SP1. It was about 850 MB. When I made it, Windows wanted to further update of SP1, which was almost 500 MB.
It took a long time but it was done.
Right now, the latest version of Silverlight 4 does not work in VS2008, I have downloaded the Silverlight tools version 3, SDK and samples from Microsofts’ downloads.
I thought, “Now it is OK for work”. But NOT.
When I open a sample solution and click “Start Debugging”, it displays the following message.
The silverlight managed debugging package isn’t installed.
I thought everything was OK, but no.
I searched through the MSDN Forums and stuff, but found nothing that helped me. Then googled, and found quite a lot.
But what is correct? I did not want to test all possible. Anyway, I tried some of them, and did not work.
I thought Silverlight addon has something to do with it. It was a very reasoned to me. Since it’s made for ordinary users, not for developers. In addition, I saw the MS Silverlight plugin will always installed the latest (version 4). But I am trying to do is 3.
Conclusion
- MSVS2008 must be updated to SP1
- If you have Silverlight browser plugin version 4, uninstall it
- If you have Silverlight4 Tools, uninstall them all
- Download and install Silverlight3_Tools
- Download and install Silverlight3_SDK
- Download and install Silverlight_Developer (version 3)
You do not need to change the registry or such a complex.
I hope that helps if you have similar problems.
Yesterday I must say.
It is April and snowing. Just a little.
In addition to the game, I read “Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition: Build a Program Now!“, and made this program (see above).
This book is for beginners, and I am a beginner on C#.
It is a good book. I recommend this book for anyone who wants to start C#. Not a lot of theories but lots of code. Quite fun to program. I have Visual Studio, but it was made for the Express edition to compile the example.
This is the final chapter “Weather Tracker”, and it can retrieve weather from MSN. It feels a bit buggy but it works!
I could not display the splash screen in the beginning. I read many times if I missed something, but did not. So I looked at included source code. And “Ha ha!”. It lacked something, of course.
splashScreen.Show();
Oh, yes! This is very important! You should set Main.cs design properties “ShowInTaskbar” – “False”.
Some “namespaces” also have to add yourself. In the last chapter you will suddenly pop up to higher ground – so I felt.
I did a little extra with that program.
If you have the book, and you want users to be able to use pop-up menu from the Main form, just change its properties “ContextMenuStrip” – “None” to “cmsNotify”.
Good luck!
It was a very cold winter and it snowed a lot, but it was finally over and spring has come, I thought. But today (or I should say yesterday perhaps), The Easter Monday, it snowed again. It was just a bit and melted directly.
What are those white and black dogs? They’re my dogs. They tend to be home with me because I’m sick.
Happy Easter by the way!
Flash bug?
I was looking for Invader Game online, and found quite many. Nostalgic reasons. Yes, I just wanted to play it.
Game made by Java worked fine, but not by Flash. It really did not work at all. Entering the Arrow-keys, ESC, Enter, Space and stuff, did nothing. I could use the mouse buttons but no keys. No Flash games worked! So I thought that it must be something wrong with my computer. And it was indeed.
I use Key Scrambling software so that I would not leave many traces of me when I’m using the Internet. You must protect yourself by threats, right? So do I. In Java captures keystroke correctly with Key Scrambling software ON, but Flash cannot. It must be BUG i Flash.
There will be problems for Flash programmers, not right now maybe, but later, when many people begin to use the Key-Scrambling software for their own safety.
I received some information via e-mail. Actually a few. One person told me about CPP and Delphi components, ActiveX and such.
Thank you very much for you to care about this software.
I looked at the things the one recommended.
New Audio Components v.2.5 (for Delphi)
Their (or his) Demo “Recorder”, did not record anything. I changed my Windows’ mixer setting, but it did not work either. So I did not want to try more. I threw them to the Trash.
AudioLab v.4.3.1 for Visual Studio, Cpp Builder, Delphi…
This is heavy duty! And it worked, I could record the sound. It was very easy, too. But how to do more than very simple? Their demo works but “So what?”, I must say.
Their help is not at all helpful, but they explain so many classes they have done. Easy but a bit more advanced demo could not be wrong.
It is free for Non-profit products, but without source code. They have made some silly dialogue, too. They were a little rush of new version or what?
Without the help that really helps, also demo as not good enough. What if it is really good! There is nothing to do with me but I think they will lose many customers.
And I could not play the MIDI file with it. They want to say it’s “Audio Stuff” blah blah blah …
It feels like this is pretty useless.
I still have it on my computer, because it is free, but I do not think I will use them.
I’ve made a little progress.
This is the next version.
Small numbers at the end of the version number can be a little more then when I release it.
A new interesting feature there. Do you see it? I do not mean to Skins. You can record sound from other audio sources. So far, I have tested with YouTube, Internet radio, DVD, CD, Windows Media Player, RealAudio Player, Quick Time … and it worked!
Once again.
Thank you, you told me about it, Mr… It was actually quite fun to examine them.
I’ve tried to create MidiToWav with Microsoft Visual Studio Visual C++.Net2008 which is installed on my Vista. I managed to open and play the MIDI file.
It seems only to use the DirectX SDK, and I did it and it was almost easy. Too easy, one can say. It worked well in Vista and 7, but not XP. When I double clicked on the EXE file, it said I need to download .Net Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 which is 231,5 MB.
My XP is “XPPro SP2″ and there is no Framework 3.5. It is an irony that the program file is less than 100 KB and to use it, I had to download 231,5 MB.
I checked the Visual Studio Project Property, where I see I always use .NET2 or .NET3 regardless, I want to or not. Soon there will be 4. It is the way Microsoft wants, I think. It makes easy and secure, for both users and developers, I ought to keep up with MS, but it feels wrong.
So, I terminated the project “MidiToWav” in Visual C++.Net.
I have good news too.
I learned that I could use DirectX, and someone made Delphi Unit. I can use IT.
I got it now!
“Now?”, you say.
It seems to be available Visual Studio 2010 soon, but I’ve finally got 2008. So I tested Visual C#.
And it works!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all.
As usual, it plays Jingle Bells when you click on the link below.
Jingle Bells
Because of the plug-in does not work, you must click on the link this year.