http://stoyanoff.info/blog Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:46:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Why lossless? Lossless audio is used on various media, including studio masters, CD, DVD-Audio (via MLP) and Blu-ray (via Dolby TrueHD, which is technically a rebrand of and an extension to MLP, and DTS-HD Master Audio). All of these, when decoded, will result in a pulse-code modulated signal identical to ... http://stoyanoff.info/blog/2010/01/08/encoding-uncompressed-audio-with-flac-in-c/ Command-line interface tools. We usually prefer to write these when we need a lightweight application to get work done. Some operations can be lengthy, or we simply want to present the a visual indicator of progress to the user. For this purpose I usually update Console.Title for simplicity’s sake. ... http://stoyanoff.info/blog/2010/01/05/cmd-progress-bar/ I'd like to wish everyone a very happy and successful new year! This month I will be posting useful code snippets and a series on high-definition audio. I would like to focus on the now-popular Blu-ray disc format and decoding DTS-HD Master Audio ... http://stoyanoff.info/blog/2010/01/05/2010/ Време е за първия блог пост на български. Каква по-добра тема от Windows 7? Днес Microsoft направи Windows 7 RC – Release Candidate, достъпен за всички. Можете да научите повече и свалите своето копие от тук. RC означава, че тази версия е много близо до крайната, която се очаква наесен. Инсталацията ... http://stoyanoff.info/blog/2009/05/05/win7-rc-bg/ Just a couple of days ago Microsoft MVP lead Alessandro Teglia announced the newly awarded and renewed Most Valuable Professionals for 2009 -- I would like to congratulate all of them on their achievements. Rock on! I am also very happy and proud to be given the award for Visual C# this year. It ... http://stoyanoff.info/blog/2009/04/03/mvp-and-whats-to-come/ GlassLib is a wrapper library for the Desktop Window Manager API and is to be used by developers which would like their applications to take advantage of .NET Framework and Windows Presentation Foundation in particular. It can be used to control the Desktop Composition due to application requirements, create and reference ... http://stoyanoff.info/blog/2008/10/17/tweak-dwm-part-3/ Following the first part of the Tweak DWM from your programs series, we are going to explore the actual usage of the Desktop Window Manager API in a Windows Forms-based program. The test application--included in the source package--also makes use of GlassBar, an extension to the existing control set. Using GlassLib ... http://stoyanoff.info/blog/2008/08/27/tweak-dwm-part-2/ With Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced a whole new window manager which provides a better experience to the user and an independent graphics surface to us developers by taking advantage of graphics acceleration hardware (your graphics card or integrated GPU). In a three-part blog post, I will show you how to use ... http://stoyanoff.info/blog/2008/07/21/tweak-dwm-part-1/ Yesterday Microsoft released the whole series of language packs (34), including Arabic, Greek and Bulgarian. The latter will be useful to fellow Bulgarians running Windows Vista Ultimate or Enterprise--they are the only editions of Windows with support of language packs. There were some critic reactions to Windows Vista Ultimate Extras as a service because the team ... http://stoyanoff.info/blog/2007/10/24/windows-vista-language-packs-released/ I have recently worked on Windows Sidebar Styler and version 2.0.6 is now available. Among the improvements is instant application of styles as well as the resizable Windows Sidebar feature. The latter is especially useful when Windows Sidebar is docked on the left. Added are more localizations and Alky for Applications ... http://stoyanoff.info/blog/2007/08/16/windows-sidebar-styler-v206/