Archive for July, 2011

WCF Test Client

6 months ago
by Rob in

Every time I set up Visual Studio on a new machine, one of the first things I do is add the WCF Test Client tool to the Tools menu.  This tool lets you call methods on your WCF web services to test them.  It can be found here:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\WcfTestClient.exe"

Rob

Convert AAC to M4A

7 months ago
by Rob in , ,

I needed to wrap an AAC file in an M4A container so I could load it into my Windows Phone 7 (WP7) music collection.  First I downloaded the FFmpeg software from here:

http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/

Then I unzipped the files and ran the following command:

C:\FFmpeg\bin>ffmpeg -i "song.aac" -acodec copy -absf aac_adtstoasc "song.m4a"

That solved the problem of not being able to add an “MP3″ tag to my audio file.

Rob

Successfully changing the MAC address in VMware

7 months ago
by Rob in

I have been fighting with VMware Workstation 7.1.4 for the past day trying to change the MAC address of a Windows guest virtual machine. I tried a number of recommendations from around the web, but the one that finally worked was setting a static MAC address as follows:

  1. Edit your “<vmname>.vmx” file with a text editor like Notepad.
  2. Determine if you have a line similar to the following:
    1. ethernet0.addressType = "generated" (Note: that's a zero after "ethernet", not the letter o)
  3. If so, change it to the following.  If not, just add the following line:
    1. ethernet0.addressType = "static"
  4. Then add the following line, where each two-digit number can be any legitimate hex value, e.g. 00 through FF:
    1. ethernet0.address = "00:0c:29:12:34:56"

This solution was found here, along with another solution that did not work for me.
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=507

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