Tag Archive for 'software'

Hello Silverlight

I had some time to play with Silverlight 2. I like editing Silverlight XAML by hand (in Visual Studio that is the only possiblility), but to get a nice design or add some effects, Expression Blend is helpful. I’m a bit disappointed that there is no SVG support in any of the Microsoft tools - so you cannot easily integrate existing SVG graphics or icons (e.g. from Open Clip Art Library). The free tool Inkscape can help here.

The first outcome of my coding is here (click on the items to edit them; drag the items to change the order).

DoNothing.exe

Sometimes you just need an executable file that does nothing: DoNothing.zip.

I use it to outsmart a tool that always calls on every start a configuration wizard - even though it already is configured. Now it calls DoNothing.exe.

.NET Reference Explorer 1.2

I’ve uploaded a new version of .NET Reference Explorer:

- New: Using global assemblies as entry assemblies
- New: Multi-selection in ‘Open File’ dialog
- New: Config files of entry assemblies now get processed
- New: No installation needed anymore.
- Fixed: Loading of global assemblies with publisher policies

Batch Conversion of MJPEG Files to MPEG 4

One of the things I don’t like about my digital camera (a Canon IXUS 70), is that it generates MJPEG files for videos. That files really take up a lot of space.

And I’m lazy and do not want to use a program like Nero to convert each file one-by-one. So I wrote a small program, that scans a directory (inclusive its subdirectories) for MJPEG files and converts them to MPEG 4 (Xvid).