Stereo Mix does not record any sound when using a USB headset
I want to share a problem that I stumbled on recently. I was helping my mother setting up her computer to allow for recording audio through stereo mix. Stereo Mix is a virtual recording device that...
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Opening CSV files in Excel
CSV (Comma Separated Values) is a useful file format for tabular data that I often use. But every time I want to load a CSV file into Excel it does not seem to recognize the files. Usually it just...
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The “secret” Windows 8.1 menu for power users
Windows 8 is still new to me, and I’m quite frustrated every time I need to use it because seems to try its best to hide all the useful settings and features from me, and search insists on promoting...
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Introducing DynForm, a c# library for semi-automatic WinForms dialogs
Application development often involves creating dialogs where the user is presented a form to enter or edit some sort of data. DynForm aims to make development of this a little bit easier. By...
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Walkthrough for Animaniacs: Lights, Camera, Action!
When I worked on the GameBoy Advance title Animaniacs: Lights, Camera, Action! we also put together an official walkthrough for the game. The game was however severely delayed, and the walkthrough was...
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Working with the AppInstalled and AppUninstalling events in SharePoint Apps
Some quick notes about remote app events receivers I have picked up when working with apps in SharePoint Online. When is AppInstalled triggered? When you add an app in SharePoint Online it shows in...
View ArticleSetting “Allow Fill-In” on taxonomy fields with CSOM
SharePoint taxonomy term sets can be open, allowing users to enter new values in the taxonomy picker. For this to work you also need to enable Allow ‘Fill-in’ choices in the site column settings for...
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Forcing JavaScript reload in Internet Explorer
If you develop websites in Internet Explorer you may experience trouble reloading your updated JavaScript. I ran into this problem myself when developing SharePoint Online apps using IE11. The...
View ArticleWhat data recovery companies aren’t telling you
My freeware utility Snap2HTML has turned out to be popular among data recovery companies, who can use it to send customers files listings of potentially recoverable files. Typically you send your...
View ArticleMoving web parts in SharePoint (without going insane)
If you’ve ever edited a SharePoint 2013 page with web parts and tried to drag them around, you’ve probably experienced frustration over how bad it works. I don’t know of a quick fix for this, but here...
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Fixing the ‘PRM_ParserErrorDetails’ problem for SharePoint Apps
Today I finally solved a problem that I have been trying to hunt down for a long time. I haven’t been able to find any good help on this elsewhere, so let me share how I solved it. This is my setup: I...
View ArticleUsing wildcard matching in any programming language
Most computer savvy persons are familiar with using wildcards when listing files and similar operations. Wildcards are quite easy to understand and use. An asterisk * means match anything, and the...
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16 years with Flash Renamer – A development retrospective
Of all the applications, web services and games I have made or been part of, Flash Renamer is my darling. In case you don’t know, Flash Renamer is a Windows utility for batch renaming files and...
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Edit SharePoint property bags with SpPropertyBag.js bookmarklet
SpPropertyBag.js is a drop-in JavaScript for editing SharePoint web properties (the “property bag”). Simply paste the script into the JavaScript console and run it to open a dialog where you can view,...
View ArticleWhy image renditions are slow in SharePoint Online
Image renditions are supposed to be a great way to speed up SharePoint. But if you’ve ever tried to use them in SharePoint Online you have probably noticed that the images load very slow. It’s usually...
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Parse Visio SVG drawings with Snap.svg
This tutorial shows how to: Load and work with SVG files using the Snap.svg JavaScript library. Parse SVG drawings exported from Visio 2013 to read data and interact with the shapes. To help with this...
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See what Boostrap screen mode you are currently viewing
Working with a responsive framework such as Bootstrap, you build websites to display differently depending on the screen size. Bootstrap defines four screen widths that determine what “mode” you are in...
View ArticleWorking with enterprise custom fields in Project Online
I was tasked with with writing a utility for setting Enterprise Custom Fields on User Resources in Microsoft Project Online. The fields got their values from Lookup Tables. Since is was Project Online,...
View ArticleConverting a CSV file to RegX with PowerShell
If you need to convert a CSV file with terms to a RegX file for use in your .Net project, you can use this simple PowerShell script:$items = Import-Csv "C:\strings.csv" -Delimiter ',' -Encoding Default...
View ArticleThink twice before uploading assets to Sharepoint Online
Here’s a heads up if you are uploading assets such as CSS files to SharePoint Online. In a solution I’m working on we have an “Alternate CSS” file that we upload to the master page gallery. It contains...
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