Thursday, September 11, 2008 #

Silverlight Cream for Septermber 11, 2008 -- #366

First today as a USArmy veteran (1970-1973), I think I would be remiss in not remembering 9-11-01.

Roger Guess deployed his new game "Defend Stuff", Martin Mihaylov on the DataGrid, Inkubook's new Photobook software, Jonas Follesø with SL2 navigation, Mike Snow on the Install and creating a Zoom Toolbar, and Terence Tsang parsing XML.

Doug Blackmore's Silverlight 2 Combobox that I blogged about last week is up on the Write and Win! Contest at SilverlightShow, and I might also add, they're still getting some great prizes!

From SilverlightCream.com:
Defend Stuff
Roger Guess has produced a very nice-looking game (when do these guys find the time???) ... "The earth has been scarred by a..." ... definitely something you want to go try your hand at... good fun stuff, Roger!
Introduction to the DataGrid control in Silverlight 2
I haven't gotten anything from Martin Mihaylov in a bit, but today he sent me a link to a new series he's starting on the DataGrid in SL2 ... in his typical Tutorial fashion ... that means it's all good :)
Inkubook's Silverlight Photobook Software
In talking with some folks, I found out about this site, Inkubook ... it's very cool, let's you build a book from pictures, like "What I did on my Summer Vacation" or something :) ... and you're definitely seeing it here first, because the link here isn't going to be released until Monday! ... you have to create a login to play with the dashboard they have done in SL, but with this link, you can get a free book... so now everyone be sure to come back here when you're done playing, ok? (Thanks for the scoop, Eric!)
Back and forward navigation in Silverlight 2 using ASP.NET AJAX
Jonas Follesø referenced Jordan Knight, whose article I had here a couple days ago, and Jonas decided to build a HistoryManager... read about issues he had, and then download his updated DiveLog program with all the source.
Silverlight Tip of the Day #38 – How to Customize the Silverlight Install Experience
Mike Snow doubled up on me again... another reference to not sleeping... We've seen custom installs before, notably (in my memory) from Pete Brown, but multiple references are always good, and Mike's material is as well!
Silverlight Tip of the Day #39 – How to Create a Zoom Toolbar
In the second article by Mike, he built a very cool Toolbar... go watch the demo, then go back for the code!
Silverlight vs Flash: Simple XML Parser
When I first logged in today, Terence Tsang didn't have a new link up on his home page... cool, I could get one of the older ones linked, but when I refreshed the page.. BAM... here it was :) ... This is an XML Parser comparison.

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Posted On Thursday, September 11, 2008 12:12 PM | Feedback (5)

Missing Eject USB Drive Tray Icon

Include this in the big list-o-reasons why I end up getting out of the house later than I like!

I went to "Safely Remove" my USB HDD this morning, and whoa... the tray icon is gone! hmmm... so I open up Computer Managment Console and rat around but can't find anything EXACTLY like that.

I thought about rebooting to see if I got it back, but the box rebooted during the night for some reason... probably an update... and it didn't come back after that, so I figured what they heck, I can probably find out how to do this faster than a reboot... I'm a trained professional after all!

Since I had already exhausted finding anything that looked like "Safely Remove" or "Eject", I tried "Uninstall" on the USB drive. That seemed to work... took it out of the list of drives, but the light was still on, and this device normally turns the light off when it's ready to go, so now what?

Google to the rescue as usual. I found instructions on this site, and I will repeat them here, but wanted to give credit :) ... and the reason I'm re-listing this here is it took me much longer than a reboot to find this, so I figured what the heck, another link in the interweb couldn't hurt.

What you want to do is run this:

"%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll"

No idea if this works on anything other than XP Pro, but what I did was navigate to C:\Windows\system32, made sure rundll32.exe was actually in that folder, then opened a command prompt in that folder and ran:

"rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll"

directly from there just to make sure. Either way should work. In the link I quoted above, George Barrowcliff suggests making a shortcut for this on your desktop. I think I'll make one and put it in a folder along witht he replacement showdesktop one I did 2 weeks ago for when things go a little weird.

Oh... and yes it not only worked, but after it finished shutting down my drive, it kindly left an icon in my system tray!

Stay in the 'Light!
Posted On Thursday, September 11, 2008 9:39 AM | Feedback (12)
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