Skip to content

GeekTieGuy

News and views from the guy with the geek tie.
  • Posts
  • Reading List
  • Simple Photo Tagger
  • Photography
  • CardSharkV
  • About
  • Posts
  • Reading List
  • Simple Photo Tagger
  • Photography
  • CardSharkV
  • About

Category Archives: Software development

Home/Archive Category: Software development

MSI custom action type 50 / 51 failures? Beware of quotes.

25April2009GeekTieGuySoftware development

This one cost me a lot of wasted time recently. I was authoring an MSI package using the otherwise excellent open source WiX package from Microsoft and kept getting 1721 errors when a custom action was supposed to run. If you get this problem, let me attempt to save you a bit of time. If you

READ MORE

HP TouchSmart development on .NET Rocks!

2December2008GeekTieGuyHP TouchSmart, Software development, Tech Toys

Check out the interview with some of the HP TouchSmart folks on .NET Rocks! It just went live earlier today. http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=399 The parts for developers are mostly in the first 15 minutes. I have some PDF slides that might illustrate things for people who are just looking for a quick visual and not a whole

READ MORE

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

READ MORE

HP TouchSmart / badges at PDC 08

24October2008GeekTieGuy2 CommentsSoftware development

You’ll see a lot of the HP TouchSmart PC at the Microsoft PDC 2008 starting on Monday. Not only physically, but also as it relates to the software. Can’t say any more than that right now. We’ll have two of the HP TouchSmart software developers attending, so if you see them, don’t be shy. Please

READ MORE

Posts navigation

Previous 1 … 5 6 7 … 10 Next
Theme by Think Up Themes Ltd. Powered by WordPress.