Monthly Archives: April 2009

Desktop Viewer (C# / WCF) Video

Posted on April 26, 2009 by rcravens

The best way to get a feel of the desktop viewer that we are developing is to watch it in action. I used CamStudio to capture the video. What you will see is a side by side display of the … Continue reading →

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Fastest Screen Capture using C# – VISTA vs WIN7

Posted on April 26, 2009 by rcravens

Update: I recently installed Windows Version 7 RC and perceived a performance increase (more frames per second) in the Remote Desktop Viewer. I thought I would recapture the performance numbers and compare Vista to Win 7 (both Ultimate versions). To … Continue reading →

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Create a Remote Desktop Viewer using C# and WCF

Posted on April 22, 2009 by rcravens

I have wanted to create some code that utilizes a Windows Communication Foundation service for quite some time. This blog will introduce a “remote desktop” service. The purpose is to create something that may have a use later and at … Continue reading →

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Dual Monitor Upgrade

Posted on April 5, 2009 by rcravens

I really like the work flow of having dual monitors. I used to like one big monitor, and had a difficult time getting over the gap between the two monitors. After using dual monitors for over a year now at … Continue reading →

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Application Logging – Effectively use a logging framework.

Posted on April 5, 2009 by rcravens

Why add logging to your application? At some point an application may require information to be logged. There are many reasons why you may want to add logging to your application. A few are: Exception, Error, Debug Logging – This … Continue reading →

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