I’ve always wanted a program that would allow me have a command line that I could slide in and out of view as needed like the console from Quake. I never could find one and so I finally got decided to write a tool myself. A picture is below and the source code is on GitHub.
I’m not putting a download here as I don’t consider this finished just yet.
I needed a tool that would copy the contents of a Zune playlist to a given directory. I did a bit of googling and I couldn’t find anything, so like any good nerd I wrote a tool that did.
The format of Zune playlists is a simple XML format known as SMIL. I think Windows Media Player also stores playlists in this format but I haven’t confirmed that yet.
I wrote the tool very quickly and have only tested it on my machine with my test data, but I’ll provide the source if you’d like to modify for yourself. The source is C#.
By extending your Service Container class, a very basic version of dependency injection can be implemented. We’ll implement two forms of dependency injection: constructor and property injection.
I decided to add progress bar to the Windows 7 Taskbar in my Timer app.
I started by downloading and compiling the Windows API Code Pack in Release mode. I then added a reference to the Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.dll and Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.Shell.dll files to the project. After that add the lines:
using Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.Taskbar;
to your using statements. When the clock starts running I create the progress bar in the taskbar with:
// Initialize progress bar
if(TaskbarManager.IsPlatformSupported)
{
TaskbarManager.Instance.SetProgressState(TaskbarProgressBarState.Normal);
TaskbarManager.Instance.SetProgressValue(0, (int)this.totalTime.TotalSeconds, this.Handle);
}
to stop the progress bar:
// Stop progress bar if(TaskbarManager.IsPlatformSupported) TaskbarManager.Instance.SetProgressState(TaskbarProgressBarState.NoProgress);
and finally to update the progress bar on each tick:
// Update progress bar if(TaskbarManager.IsPlatformSupported) TaskbarManager.Instance.SetProgressValue((int)this.totalTime.TotalSeconds - (int)this.time.TotalSeconds, (int)this.totalTime.TotalSeconds, this.Handle);