XBMC–Some YouTube videos refuse to play

I noticed that a few YouTube videos refused to play. Having searched around, I came upon a thread in the XBMC YouTube plugin code repository; https://code.google.com/p/youtubexbmc/issues/detail?id=95#c217 [email protected]  linked to an updated YouTubePlayer.py file; YouTubePlayer.py Copying this file to your XBMC Addons directory, over the existing file, fixes the problem nicely. Evidently, some YoutTube videos have [...]

By |2017-07-24T08:33:17+01:00May 30th, 2014|Bugs, Tips, XBMC|0 Comments

Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 – Navigation Bar Dropdowns not working

Seems as though the VS team introduced a bug in Update 2 for Visual Studio 2013, where the Navigation Bar Dropdowns don’t work if you are using VS on a screen which is to the left of your “Main Screen”; When you have VS running on your second (or third) monitor, clicking on the Navigation [...]

By |2017-07-24T08:33:17+01:00May 29th, 2014|Bugs, Tips, Visual Studio|0 Comments

WordPress Contact-Form-7 Not Sending–”Spinning Arrows”

I recently had an issue with a new Wordpress install, where the Contact Form wasn't sending correctly, instead hitting the Submit button would simply show the Spinning arrows animation, with no Mail Sent. I was also using the Really Simple CAPTCHA plugin, which may have had a bearing on the issue too. After doing some digging around [...]

By |2017-07-24T08:33:17+01:00May 23rd, 2014|Bugs, Tips, Wordpress|0 Comments

Skype Login Screen not Rendering Properly

Recently I had an issue where my Skype login screen wasn’t rendering properly, showing something like; After doing some searching around I found the following Skype forum which had a solution; http://community.skype.com/t5/Windows-desktop-client/Skype-6-10-0-104-BIG-Login-screen-problem/td-p/2064269/page/6 Turns out that this is caused by a registry key setting css to text/plain rather than text/css. Simply setting “HKEY_LOCAL_Machine > Software > [...]

By |2017-07-24T08:33:17+01:00May 22nd, 2014|Design, Featured, Skype|0 Comments

WPF PasswordBox control click crashes Application if Fonts aren’t available

I recently had an issue where a kiosk application I was developing would crash on a Windows Embedded 7 system, if the user clicked on a PasswordBox control. Annoyingly, I couldn’t replicate this in my test environment. The Application would crash, and frustratingly, not actually hit any of my Error Handlers. However, the Windows Application [...]

By |2017-07-24T08:33:17+01:00February 27th, 2014|ASP.net, Data, Embedded C, Team Foundation Server|0 Comments