XAML Power Toys v5 License Agreement Updated

I contacted JB Evain the author of Mono.Cecil and determined that Mono.Cecil is licensed under the MIT X11 License and not the Creative Commons license I thought it was.  Many thanks to JB for clearing this up for me and for his Mono.Cecil work. 

I have updated the XAML Power Toys installer to reflect the new license.

If you have downloaded XAML Power Toys already, you do not need to re-download since the MIT X11 license is even less restrictive than the Creative Commons license I thought I had to use.

Sorry for any confusion, this is my first license agreement I had to post.

The new MIT X11 License now reads:

License Agreement

Copyright (c) 2009 Little Richie Software

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Have a great day,

Just a grain of sand on the worlds beaches.

How to watch Sunday Night Football Full Screen with two or more Monitors

If you have more than one monitor, keep reading.

When you open Sunday Night Football to view using the new Silverlight player, go full screen and then start using your other monitor to work, Silverlight immediately goes back to the smaller size.  Bummer.

It’s actually a security feature, which is good.

Workaround

1.  Open Sunday Night Football on your second monitor.

2.  Press CTRL + N.  This will open a new browser window that you can do what you want size wise.

3.  Close the original browser.

4.  Now use your browser zoom feature and zoom the screen the way you want.  The scrollbar allows you to position the screen as desired.

Have a great day,

Just a grain of sand on the worlds beaches.

XAML Power Toys v5 Published

It’s here and posted at: http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/xaml-power-toys/

Please read the Known Issue, New Installation and Upgrading sections in the above page.

Five New 1280 x 1024 videos too.

New Features and Changes in v5.0

• x32 and x64 support. 
• Creation of Silverlight 3 DataForm from a selected class.
• ViewModel creation now allows optionally re-implementing Model properties on the ViewModel.
• Moved XAML Power Toys saved settings file out of the “\Program Files\Little Richie Software\XAML Power Toys” folder to “\Program Data\Little Richie Software\XAML Power Toys” folder.
• Visual Studio “Add-in\Macro Security” entry no longer required.
• Removed XAML Power Toys Solution Explorer context menus.  All features are now accessed from either a code window or the XAML Editor.
• Fixed the installer program to simply installing and uninstalling XAML Power Toys.  Version 5 no longer requires any additional steps for a clean install or uninstall.
• Completely rewrote the secondary application domain loading code from scratch.
• Verified XAML Power Toys has no side by side issues with DevExpress. 
• Added license agreement MIT X11 License.  This was done for two reasons:
  • I’m now using Mono.Cecil for assembly reflection and it’s licensed using the above license.
  • Many corporate developers have a requirement that all software they install and use must have a license agreement.  I’ve added it so corporate customers can now use XAML Power Toys in their organizations.

Have a great day,

Just a grain of sand on the worlds beaches.

XAML Power Toys v5 Will Be Available Sunday at 7:00pm PST

My blog has been very quiet the last month because I’ve been working very long hours in preparation for the next release of Visual Studio 2010.  On the weekends I was relaxing and not doing much with my computer.

I’ve been all cranked up at home the last week, back to my 2:00am working sessions.

I’m sitting at FireStarter in Redmond now and will be presenting XAML Power Toys v5 at 3:45pm PST. 

You can watch FireStarter live, right now at: 

http://mindseyepdx.com/microsoft/firestarter/test/index2.html

I’ve added every feature that was requested on my blog and email.  This includes but is not limited to:

• Support for Silverlight DataForm Control
• DataForm creation from RIA Services data model
• x64 support
• ViewModel creation, re-implement one or more model properties on the ViewModel
• Completely rewritten assembly loading code, no more load failures!
• Full compatibility with DevExpress tools. 
• Settings file moved out of Program Files folder to the APPDATA folder.

I have tested the new version with complex multi-project solutions and it is sweet.

Have a great day,

Just a grain of sand on the worlds beaches.