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UPDATED: I was recently presented with an issue of casting a Bitmap Image (System.Drawing.Image) to a BitmapImage (System.Windows.Media.Imaging). Unfortunately WPF has no converter for this. To solve this issue I created…

I recently began work on a RESTful web service using WCF 4. One of our requirements was to implement basic HTTP authentication (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication). This wasn’t quite as straight forward as I initially thought it might be. After some digging around I came across a wonderful extension library WcfRestContrib (https://github.com/mikeobrien/WcfRestContrib) . Proceeding after finding this library and use of their documentation I basic auth integrated quickly into the service. At this  [ Read More ]

Canon releases the EDSDK 2.9 library

Earlier this week I received an email informing me of the release of the EDSDK 2.9 library. I must say that this has been a quick release cycle for Canon and their SDK. Upon reviewing the change notes for this release there really only appears to be 2 changes. First, Canon added support for their latest EOS camera the Canon EOS 60D. Second they removed support for the antiquated Windows™  [ Read More ]

It’s been a loooong time between posts and I apologize for that. The resent months have been quite busy and a somewhat recent change in direction on my software development has led to me no longer diving into WIA. In this post I am providing a functional class that provides a means to enumerate the devices properties, set a device property and take a picture. What this class does not  [ Read More ]

WIA and 64-bit Vista Whoas

So I’ve been working on a tether program for my Nikon D40x. My current development platform is 32-bit Vista, but my target machine is a 64-bit Vista machine. So today I’ve finally got everything working on my development machine and migrate it to my target machine. Everything seems fine under normal test cases until I go to exercise a couple of key events used to detect if the camera is  [ Read More ]

Welcome, in this article I am going to how to get your project setup to use WIA, how successfully connect to an image device and finally how to enumerate all the properties and events the device supports. While this article will only touch the surface of what all you can do with WIA subsequent articles will continue to delve deeper into WIA’s full capabilities. Related Posts:Project: multi-touch table

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