Geekosaurus Tedd
In this article I thought I’d try to explain the exception: Cross-thread operation not valid: Control ‘someControl’ accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on. This article is a simplification and applies to WinForm and WPF (though samples are for WinForm). What is the GUI thread? When an application starts the … Read more
Windows attempts to auto detect any changes to the plugs in your sound card. That doesn’t work well with my sound card (X-Fi something) so the speakers keep falling in and out randomly. Solution: The sound card drivers are located under the registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class{4D36E96C-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} Search for “EnableDynamicDevices” (located under GlobalSettings somewhere) and set it … Read more
NOTE: Microsoft has released Kinect SDK since this article was written. You probably want that instead of this. 🙂 Much of the stuff I’m doing with Kinect involves two input pictures and one output I figured I’d make a platform to make it easy to test new stuff. The main idea is that I can … Read more
Yesterday I bought a Kinect and hooked it up to my PC. After a couple of hours of compiling drivers and finally realizing I had to switch USB ports for the camera to work I could start writing code. I used the CLNUIDeviceTest as a base since it already had the lines of code required … Read more
Update: As commented by ‘pifcnt’ this is for VS2010 files. Today I had the daunting task of combining multiple solution files into one. The reason for this was that the project I’m working on originally started as multiple separate solutions with shared projects. Now we find it more convenient to have it in a single solution … Read more
Found an article from May 2007 that haven’t been posted. About time I guess. 🙂 Every now and then I get a bright idea about a new compression algorithm I have to test. Here are results from my latest idea: Debug checksum: 418 Original data: Tedd! Original data length: 5 Compressed data length: 7 Result … Read more
Some time ago I discovered that my (two) Active Directory controllers weren’t actually talking to each other too well. After some debugging I found that the local Windows Firewall was enabled on one of the AD controllers and it was basically blocking everything that had to do with AD. So I disabled it and all … Read more
For the past couple of weeks I have been playing Age of Conan with Sara. I am Weathor, Aquilonian Priest of Mitra. MWAHAHA. 🙂 As always I’m looking for something to tinker with. Just playing the game is not that fun. I’ve been searching for addons for AoC, but I can’t find anything useful. Basically … Read more
Many of us are upgrading our projects to Visual Studio 2010 nowadays. You start Visual Studio 2010, load the project and the conversion wizard pops up. You click finish, try to compile and get a bunch of errors. Oh no! The fact is that what Visual Studio version you are using is totally irrelevant to … Read more
