Videos

The first version of Directory Printer Lite was written in c++ and linked to the Microsoft Foundation Classes library. That was nicely old school. This next version does the same thing, but it’s written in c# for .NET 4.8 WinForm which is already installed on almost every Windows machine. Better. .NET 4.8 was suggested by […]

A donor is having problems running Directory Printer on Windows 11. He says it starts up and then just stops. I was hoping I would experience the same failure today on a new installation of Windows 11 Home into a Hyper-V virtual machine on my Dell PC that Microsoft refuses to upgrade to Windows 11

I recorded the material for this video yesterday. As I was getting ready to put my voice over it, I noticed that not all of the information returning from the processes is displayed in the user interface as the results come in. Some seem to happen in secret. Some processes seem to just report “Done

Since I’m charging up my MacBook anyway this morning, why not take what I’ve learned through c++ and c# and check out Microsoft’s .NET MAUI again to see how it looks? Breaking Replicator into several modules will make multi-platform easier. I like accessing the Windows API via c++. I like programming for Windows Desktop using

Reverted back to Replicator 3++ of this past Saturday because it was working, just needed to set this one option, NavigationCacheMode=”Enabled” in the XAML file. Links:

I accidentally made an update about Replicator 2 because I wanted to take a picture of Jade, programmer support dog.

Yet another video. Important tip: Can’t depend on DispatcherTimer to happen on time.

I’ve been working on a system tray app that will display a live indication of bandwidth being used. Like a little running, bar chart.

QR Code Talker will be available for download soon.

I added a timer! Karen’s QR Code Talker isn’t available for download, yet.

This is the beginning of the command line interface for Karen’s Replicator 2. I hard coded it to copy the contents of one directory to another, including sub directories. Here’s the Code

Somebody asked on YouTube if Replicator was going to be rewritten. I have said yes since 2017. I’ve started dozens of times, including again today. Spoiler: 45 minutes of very little getting done. There’s some bad music. And I prove to myself I shouldn’t do these online. 🙂

Karen’s Feed Reader will be an Atom/RSS feed reader. More later. I streamed this a few minutes ago on our YouTube channel, https://youtube.com/@karenware. It’s not meant to be a complete, useful video. It’s a beta test of the studio setup. The example program “consumes” the Atom/RSS feed for this blog. That feed URL is: https://blog.karenware.com/feed.

You know how “Karen” has become slang? In other news: It’s been 11 months since I’ve used sketchy drugs.

Here’s 30 minutes of me programming on Karen’s QR Code Talker. I streamed this as a test to see if the wireless internet we have out here on the edges of the county is capable of sending full HD video at a low bitrate. Success! The following is the embedded live stream as record by

QR Code Talker is a simple QR Code generator. You type in some text and it shows you a QR code. Simple. This project is based on open source work by Raffael Herrmann (codebude) on GitHub at https://github.com/codebude/QRCoder. Here’s some code The program isn’t done yet, but here’s what makes it work.