November 2008 – GeekTieGuy

HP TouchSmart software update: Touch Optimizer

20November2008GeekTieGuy2 CommentsHP TouchSmart, Software, Vista

Lots of people find that once they’re outside the touch optimized environment that the HP TouchSmart software provides, things in Vista are not all that easy to use with touch. This is something we addressed with what we called a “Touch Optimizer” on the IQ770 (our first TouchSmart series). On the IQ500 series we initially

WIC metadata in .NET: Getting around "Property cannot be found" / System.ArgumentException /"Exception from HRESULT: 0x88982F40"

16November2008GeekTieGuy4 CommentsSoftware development, WPF

Here’s a bit of an obscure error message I’ve run into while working with WIC (Windows Imaging Component) on .NET/WPF, trying to write XMP metadata into an image: So far, a search on Google has yielded few usable results. I hope this post will change

Steven Sinofsky’s Vista UAC discussion at PDC 2008

14November2008GeekTieGuyOpinion, Software, Vista

One thing I haven’t written about yet is my impression of a few moments in Steven Sinofsky’s PDC 2008 keynote. It was when he talked about User Account Control. UAC was not well received when it was put in Vista, to put it mildly. At around 45 minutes in the keynote, Steven mentions UAC and,

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Monthly Archives: November 2008

HP TouchSmart software update: Touch Optimizer

WIC metadata in .NET: Getting around "Property cannot be found" / System.ArgumentException /"Exception from HRESULT: 0x88982F40"

Steven Sinofsky’s Vista UAC discussion at PDC 2008