Saturday, February 24, 2007

For those who haven't heard of Sideshow see -

http://www.Microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/sideshow.mspx

Following Daniel Moths brilliant introduction to Windows SideShow.

http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2006/11/vista-sideshow.html

I thought I would have a play.   However to get things up and running you need to install the Vista SDK (big, download at (32bit) ) -

http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/7/7/a7767f09-0136-4a96-a1f8-276bf0ee31fa/Setup.exe

& then then the managed code wrapper for Sideshow at (32bit)-

http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/5/b/15bbf1b9-a340-4b9a-974b-4bf12123a5dc/WindowsSideShowNETFx_Beta.msi

So after all this,  all I wanted to do is port a simple proof of concept I-Ching program I put together based on the content at -

www.binaryrefinery.com/i-ching/mobile.aspx

Want to know more about I-Ching have a look at -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-Ching

& here's the result after several Gb's less (well 1.2) of hard drive space -

 

Will post source when I have fully recovered :)

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