http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Main/Index.htm .NET/C# resources and tutorials en Wed, 9 May 2012 18:30:00 GMT Wed, 9 May 2012 18:30:00 GMT NoteTab Pro 4.95 1440 A function is made for indenting or unindenting XML code from file. Indented XML is better readable for humans and validators. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Articles_2012/Article_XMLIndent_01.htm 60dcd236-95b3-4dd5-bd65-bb46c1579b5f Fri, 11 May 2012 22:30:00 GMT Article A universal set of functions is made to manage Atom Feed Documents and Atom Entry Documents, as defined in the Atom 1.0 specification. New Feed and Entry documents can be made and stored independently from each other, and existing feeds can be modified by adding or removing entries. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Articles_2012/Article_XMLAtomModule_01.htm cbb9b4c9-2e7d-41bd-9e4e-d1d3126bfea2 Wed, 9 May 2012 18:30:00 GMT Article An introduction to the Atom syndication format specification with an overview of the required and optional elements. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Standards/Standard_Atom.htm 58f694de-5129-4989-8703-7ba30841f254 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:25:00 GMT Article An introduction to the RSS syndication format specification with an overview of the required and optional elements. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Standards/Standard_RSS.htm 7fd0127b-4c7c-43e5-a5a1-a13abce4fda6 Wed, 24 Apr 2012 18:15:00 GMT Article The Atom feed is a respectable alternative for RSS. It has several technical advantages and a well-defined specification. Deployment and subscribtions are identical to RSS and it is implemented in all major browsers. In this article an introduction, Atom feeds are created from code, and validated with a RELAX NG schema to test their structure before deployment. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Articles_2012/Article_XMLAtomFeed_01.htm 83b41a54-c742-45c1-8f08-aa7f8283dfae Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:33:00 GMT Article An inventory is made for the required schemas to validate EPUB content documents and support files. The schemas are of type RELAX NG and a matching validator is made available as application and with source code. The schemas and the validator are tested on an EPUB demo-document. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Articles_2012/Article_XML_EPUB_02.htm 4a86bd1e-ec70-48ad-acf0-8fdaa79c8736 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:15:00 GMT Article A validator is made to test the structure of XML documents with RELAX NG schemas. It is implemented as stand-alone application, to validate documents by hand, but the code can also be integrated in applications. Several XML test-documents and RELAX NG schemas are made to see how the validator reacts. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Articles/Article_XML_RelaxNG_01.htm 6f26669b-a541-410c-a1fd-65429def5d2d Fri, 6 Apr 2012 15:00:00 GMT Article This introduction gives an overview of all the necessary elements to create e-books in EPUB format by hand. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Articles_2012/Article_XML_EPUB_01.htm eb701b56-ec2c-41c3-be46-86681a0c2808 Wed, 4 Apr 2012 12:40:00 GMT Article A schema of type XSD is generated with the XmlSchemaInference class from an XML document, serving as a template to define a structure. Similar documents are then compared against that schema in a validator to test if they have the same structure. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Articles_2012/Article_XMLValidatorXSD_01.htm 6fdb4403-e044-4295-ac01-44e4989b2e74 Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:00:00 GMT Article The discussed validator opens an XML-file and returns an error description if the XML-code is invalid. The description includes the position of errors in the document, which can help to find and correct them. The validator is tested with the most common XML syntax-rules. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Articles/Article_XML_Validator_01.htm 779ff784-546e-4fa4-ae09-d63b0d5fef1e Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:10:00 GMT Article Escaping and unescaping text for XML is tested with the HttpUtility.HtmlEncode and SecurityElement.Escape methods. It appears that the XMLSerializer, and other XML serializers, escape text automatically, just as the XmlDocument and XDocument Save methods. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Articles/Article_XML_Escaping_01.htm f2b67c29-27f6-4ebb-a294-3317b166d9ce Wed, 7 Mar 2012 20:35:00 GMT Article Ordered and unordered lists, defined for (X)HTML, can be used in XML as structures to store data. Lists expressed in XML can be transformed into other forms with XSLT, directly in a browser or with the XslCompiledTransform class. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Articles/Article_XHTML_Lists_01.htm 6fe39a79-56be-44eb-b812-3da4b56d91eb Fri, 2 Mar 2012 21:55:00 GMT Article A practical example is given how an application can interact with bookmarks from a spoken SSML document to add interactive features. The process is supported with extra information from the meta data. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Articles_2012/Article_WPFSpeakAsync_01.htm af72de4b-80a3-4dfd-be14-58bf2da223fc Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:20:00 GMT Article An overview is given of the W3C Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) and how it can be processed by the SpeechSynthesizer class. SSML test-documents are converted to WAV and MP3 files with this synthesizer and streamed to a sound card to see if it is a good combination to make text to speech applications. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Articles_2012/Article_XML_SSML_01.htm 42eab4bf-2831-4dd9-8f23-26dfe4f8cc79 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:15:00 GMT Article With the LAME encoder its easy to convert WAV audio files to MP3. It can be used from the command line or integrated in code by executing it with the Process class. The encoder has a large number of options to define the result. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Articles_2010/Article_WPFWavToMP3_01.htm 401f69b5-fa4e-4a5f-8011-1cc067cfe352 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:45:00 GMT Article SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) is a W3C recommendation for generating synthetic speech from text expressed in XML. An overview is given of the elements and attributes in SSML 1.0 and 1.1, and an example how to use it with the SpeechSynthesizer class. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Standards/Standard_SSML.htm 778537f7-a72f-4949-a1a6-3e4c74a14c86 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:45:00 GMT Article A text editor is made with line numbers and a resizable area for error messages. It is implemented as XML/XAML editor by adding validators. The article concentrates on the construction of the user interface. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Articles_2012/Article_XML_Editor_01.htm 7432d087-be1e-40f1-8832-1178f657f27b Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:45:00 GMT Article Application-settings are stored in an XML file to conserve its state. This is implemented as a class with a monostate-pattern. The settings are stored in static members to make them globally available, and the class instance can be saved as a single object. Settings are serialized when the application closes and deserialized when it opens. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Articles/Article_Monostate_01.htm dbe315dc-8cc4-49bb-9b72-5b143fc80959 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 14:15:00 GMT Article In this article an overview of the Vector operators and type conversions. The operators are compared to corresponding methods and their use is explained with code snippets and diagrams. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Articles_2012/Article_WPFVectorOperators_01.htm 1273519a-1713-4ce3-95d5-74bdb137cfae Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:00:00 GMT Article Syncronized scrolling of two ScrollViewer controls by mutual feedback. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Articles_2012/Article_WPFScrollViewerSync_01.htm 3d4043cd-7cb8-4209-b539-a606f22934a1 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:00:00 GMT Article A tool is made to convert existing color-images to grayscale in a selected pixel format. The code contains a set of universal functions to convert images and XAML graphics alike and to save them as bitmap in a desired file format. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Articles_2012/Article_WPFImageGrayScale_01.htm c2419fc9-70f4-4ac8-95dd-fe67bfbb2fee Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:00:00 GMT Article Existing images are cropped into a square format and a border is added optionally. They can be pubished with the Instagram photo sharing service or on other services with an 'Instagram' group. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Articles_2012/Article_WPFImageSquare_01.htm d86ae4aa-9c09-48dc-bb4d-c65a7831128d Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:50:00 GMT Article These Spirograph patterns are made by rotating two or three vectors. The source code has a user-interface for experiments and results can be saved as PNG bitmap. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Articles_2012/Article_WPFSpirograph_01.htm d5d78174-4c6b-4c19-b00a-c538f960a954 Wed, 4 Jan 2012 21:00:00 GMT Article Installing Silverlight 5 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 SP1. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Articles_2011/Article_SLInstallation_50.htm 82c42854-1166-408d-8762-9e001ca038ff Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:50:00 GMT Article A short guide how to update Silverlight 4 Visual Studio solutions to Silverlight 5. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Articles_2011/Article_SLUpdateTo5.htm 2e9ceee8-7852-405f-9383-c499447f7df0 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:50:00 GMT Article The Tuple can combine items of different types in one variable. This can be used to pass inhomogeneous data to a function through a single parameter, or to return it without using the out parameter. Unusual data-structures can be made when the items are arrays, lists or collections. Examples are added to demonstrate this. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Articles_2011/Article_WPFTuple_01.htm 39495e39-7cd3-4600-83b5-de702f2df8f2 Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:10:00 GMT Article The UniformGrid is a simple version of Grid where all the cells have the same size. It is easy to implement with straightforward Rows and Columns properties for its dimensions. Tests are done to discover how it behaves in various circumstances and two examples are added to illustrate its use. One shows how to make grid lines for the control, the other tiles a bitmap into the grid cells. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Articles_2011/Article_WPFUniformGrid_01.htm f75a1007-d25e-459f-a7a8-59c3ef833546 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:10:00 GMT Article In this overview the principles how to size and move rectangles with a vector. Practical examples are added to combine vectors and rectangles in the construction of graphics. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Articles_2011/Article_WPFVectorRect_01.htm 669c6a5c-f5f0-454d-890f-6feb8aa6bb32 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:30:00 GMT Article Shredding and unshredding images is simulated in software using the CroppedBitmap class. The size of the strips is adjustable or shredding can be applied in several passes adding up. A shredded image can be recovered with the information from an XML file saved by the shredder. http://wrb.home.xs4all.nl/Articles_2011/Article_WPFImageShred_01.htm 9b00dbf7-40b9-473c-8c13-ea2ea4dc7371 Mon, 5 Dec 2011 17:45:00 GMT Article