October 24, 2007

Moving Functoids & Links to new page

I had a complex map and wanted to make it easier to read by separating links and functoids into several pages within that map. BizTalk makes it extremely simple, but it took me a few minutes to get it...

1) Create a new destination page within the map.

2) Select the desired functoids and it's links from the old page.

3) Drag the functoid and links to the new destination page tab and keep holding the left mouse button down... you should see the arrow & grey box cursor... if you get the circle with the slash through it, you didn't correctly select all the functoids and links.

4) Now the new empty page is activated... but don't just drop the functoids on the tab, move the cursor back up into the grid, then drop them on the grid... they now are moved to the new page.

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October 19, 2007

NHL Points projecter

Here is a js utility that will project the total points at the end of the season based on the team's current record. Next step is to find a good feed for team records.

Wins:
Losses:
OT Losses:
SO Losses:
Projection Text:

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October 04, 2007

Expression Blend 2 Resize Page Canvas

Using Expression Blend 2 September Preview, I needed to make my application larger than the default size of 640 x 480. After changing the main canvas's height and width to 800 x 600, the XAML validated, but when I went to deploy, I got the message "The name 'Initialize Component' does not exist in the current context". In fact, even once I switched back to 640 x 480 mode, I still got this message.

The default .html file in the project has a css style sheet that has 640 x 480 coded in it that also needs to be revised. But even if this changed, the error message remained.

What I found was that this style sheet needs to be revised in Visual Studio first, then built in Visual Studio before you even touch Blend if you need to change from the original size defaults.

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