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Turning the Silverlight on Tassography.com by Ben Vincent

I’m always up for learning something new and when it comes to development the best way for me is to add a new feature on tassography.com. That’s why the site is packed full of features, half of which I’m sure only I know about! Silverlight has been usable for about 18 months now and it was time I finally played around with it. Over Christmas I pulled together two simple applications that I think are pretty cool.

Advanced Photo Viewer using Windows Live Photo Gallery’s People Tags

In my last couple of postings I’ve talked about how Windows Live Photo Gallery allows you to tag People in Photos and how you can read them using C#. I’ve now taken that capability and written a simple Silverlight app that duplicates the experience I get when viewing photos in WLPG. Now on tassography.com when you put your mouse over a person in the photo their name will pop up. And if you click on that person it’ll take you to all the photos I have of that person. Here’s how my experience compares to the WLPG experience:


*My New Photo Viewer*	*WLPG Photo Viewer*

I have tagged about 3500 photos with about 80 different people to view online, click here to see:

http://www.tassography.com/photography/people

Dive Profile Viewer

I’ve had a dive computer on every one of my 80 odd dives, and apart from keeping me safe whilst I’m diving, I don’t really do much with the data. Until now that is. I found a nifty little tool called SuuntoXML that exports the data in XML. With some Silverlight magic I’ve now been able to visualise them for all to see online:

You can check out all my dives here:

http://www.tassography.com/diving

Well that’s it for now, I have some cool ideas of where to take these two apps so stay tuned for more.

Posted: Wed, 21 Jan 2009, 03:03:33 GMT by Ben Vincent

Category: Ben's Blog

Tags: Tassography, Windows Live, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Silverlight, Diving

Using WIC & C# to read Windows Live Photo Gallery’s People Tags by Ben Vincent

In my last posting I talked about how Windows Live Photo Gallery (WLPG) stores People tags in XMP. In this post I’m going to extend the Windows Imaging Component code from Robert Wlodarczyk’s Blog to read the data. The code is pretty simple to use, just make sure you have PresentationCore registered in your project and the System.Windows.Media.Imaging namespace. [Read More]

Posted: Fri, 16 Jan 2009, 20:08:45 GMT by Ben Vincent

Understanding how Windows Live Photo Gallery’s People Tags are Stored by Ben Vincent

Since writing Tassography.com tags have been an important part of my workflow. For as long as I can remember I have been using Microsoft’s Digital Image Pro 2006. With the release of the new version of Windows Live Photo Gallery (WLPG), I took this Christmas the time to switch over and take advantage of some of the cool new features. The most compelling new feature for me is the new people tagging capabilities. [Read More]

Posted: Thu, 15 Jan 2009, 22:17:48 GMT by Ben Vincent

Windows Live Calendar is out of Beta by Ben Vincent

Ok so I’m no longer the PM Lead for Calendar but I really enjoyed by 4 months stint on the team and I’m looking forward to the work I’m going to do with them next Wave. So it’s really cool to see the plan I helped build has finally delivered and Windows Live Calendar is no longer a beta product. Here’s the blog post David (the new lead) did today: ------------------------------ Over the past several months, Windows Live Calendar has been in beta. We’ve been experimenting with features, listening to your feedback, and polishing up the service. [Read More]

Posted: Thu, 15 Jan 2009, 09:25:58 GMT by Ben Vincent

I’m Number 1 on Live Search, Number 2 on Google by Ben Vincent

I don’t know much about Search algorithms but I do know that they are getting better all the time and sites don’t normally appear high up in the list unless they are meant to. Google uses a method that works out how many sites link to yours, I don’t know how Live’s works. So I’m pretty impressed that I now appear as the first hit on Live Search and the second hit on Google when you search for my name: Live Search: [Read More]

Posted: Thu, 15 Jan 2009, 09:07:19 GMT by Ben Vincent

Why and how you should switch your ISP Email to Hotmail! by Ben Vincent

Ok so I work for Hotmail, and this might sound me I’ve been drinking the company kool-aid but hear me out. If you’re using Gmail or Yahoo! then you can also tune out now, I’ll tackle that conversation for another day! But if you’re using a random ISP and you have your own domain name then read on. When I joined 8 months ago I was using an ISP that gave me POP3, IMAP and Web access to my email, that’s pretty good. [Read More]

Posted: Mon, 12 Jan 2009, 02:43:39 GMT by Ben Vincent

Copying Jpeg Metadata using C# and Windows Imaging Component by Ben Vincent

It’s a scenario I keep finding myself in, I have two copies of the same photo but I want all metadata changes from one file in the other. For example, I want update my backup with changes I’ve made to metadata but don’t want to touch the source image, or I have the original and a small version of the same file. I haven’t found any reliable way to do this, so I finally sat down and wrote my own using plenty of excellent data on Robert Wlodarczyk’s Blog and the Windows Imaging Component. First, let’s look at the metadata stored in my two files using WICExplorer: [Read More]

Posted: Sun, 11 Jan 2009, 03:20:23 GMT Updated: Sun, 11 Jan 2009, 08:12:46 GMT by Ben Vincent

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Ben - Cool! A nice end to the week, my mum was waiting for me in St Louis, she kept it a secret!

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