Once In A White Moon - by Gina Therese Hvidsten
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Once In A White Moon

Printing XPS files to a physical printer

I had the need to programatically print an XPS file, but a couple of hours of Google searches only returned examples of how to print TO an XPS file. It was extremely difficult to find how to send a XPS file to an actual physical printer. Eventually something turned up and the solution seemed to be the XpsDocument class. Look at this simplified example to see how easy it turned out to be: PrintDialog dlg = new PrintDialog(); XpsDocument xpsDoc = new XpsDocument(PATH_TO_YOUR_XPS_FILE_HERE, System.IO.FileAccess.Read); dlg.PrintDocument(xpsDoc.GetFixedDocumentSequence().DocumentPaginator, “Document title”); As you can see, reading a XPS file and then sending the contents to a printer is not very hard at all.

Looking back at getting lost near Grand Canyon

Having recently published my big Californian vacation video to YouTube I think it’s time to reminisce a bit about my adventures. As you already know from seeing the video and by photos in my photo album I went to Grand Canyon. Before traveling to the US, a colleague of mine mentioned the place where he visited Grand Canyon West and suggested I go there to.I looked up the place on Google Maps, found the GPS coordinates and plotted those into my GPS to get driving directions.My colleague warned me that the drive would seem a bit wrong because you would have to go onto some gravel roads, so when my GPS directed me onto a gravel road I didn’t think much of it.I did get […] Read more

Attention comment spammers

I have now added a nofollow attribute to all links in the comments section, so spammers will no longer get increased page ranks from Google or other search engines. For non-spammers, add the following to an anchor tag and google won’t follow that link: rel="nofollow"

For my sister

My sister got married on Saturday, September 1.There was a great party with many great speeches. I’m not claiming greatness on my own, but I will post it here (translated to English for my foreign friends) for everybody else to enjoy (for the first time, or again if you were there).I said it many times that day, but I’ll say it here again. Congratulations to my sister and her husband! Both my sister (Elisabeth) and her husband (Fredrik) are teachers, so the toastmaster made the entire experience to be like a class at school. I was the evening’s teacher of the computer class. ———- If everybody in the class can start their computers, open a web browser, go to Google and search for my name, […] Read more