The Troubles with Tablet Mode

I have a project that requires the use of a tablet (i.e. no physical keyboard or mouse).  It is reliant on touchscreen and the on-screen keyboard (OSK).  The tablet is also connected to a television via HDMI. Funny thing about Windows 10.  If I am in “Tablet...

WAMP Services not booting

Just came across an issue where I started WAMP, but the icon went orange instead of green.  Hovering over the WAMP icon in the System Tray, I saw a message like this: local server – 1 of 2 services running Turns out that I had Skype running and it looks like the...

Submitting to P4

Today, I’ve been having a problem submitting large-ish files to P4.  Specifically, the two files in question were around 100MB.  P4 would look like it was submitting, then eventually timeout with a network error (note: not explicitly a timeout error)....

Custom paper size for HP printers

I have a need to print 12″ x 30″ through my HP Officejet 7000 Wide Format printer.  Unfortunately, the ability to choose a custom size (outside of the predefined sizes) is not available.  It appears that HP removed the ability to make custom sizes a few...

Raising events across Windows

Multi-threaded applications appear to be more and more the norm with the latest version of Windows development.  In fact, it’s become a necessity when displaying additional windows with a UWP app.  With this article, I want to capture the resolution to a problem...

Refreshing images in XAML

The Image control used in XAML does not really seem like a big deal.  Place it in your XAML and bind the Source Property to your Data.  Might look something like this: <Image Source={Binding MyPath} /> However, there’s a case I came across that had me...