Expression Blend 4 Patches - expression-blend

Where can I get the list of patches/service packs for Expression Blend 4?

Service Pack 1 for Expression Blend 4 is currently out.
http://www.microsoft.com/expression/service-packs/Blend.aspx

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QGIS not allowing alphanumeric labelling, can only use integers

Regular user of QGIS for moderate mapping needs. Currently using desktop version 3.24.0.
Tring to add labels to point and polygon shapefile layers. Never had an issue doing this before, but now I can only select the integer option indicated by '123'. The alphanumeric option usually indicated by 'abc' is no longer there, and i cannot create a label with any form of lettering as a result.
You can see below that the dropdown menu only has an option for integers:
Anyone else had this issue? Did you find a resolution?
Cheers,
R

Calculate Protractor Angle in WP7

I am trying to create a protractor in windows phone 7 using silverlight framework and I am stuck in getting the protractor needle to rotate.
I am using rotate transform and specifying the angle value to the transform name in the code behind.
I need a perfect angle calculation and currently the protractor needle is not rotating as required.
Any help would be truly appreciated, thanks.
try this:
var rotateTransform = (RotateTransform)yourControl.RenderTransform;
rotateTransform.Angle = 90.0f;
I wrote this out of top of my head, but this is general rule how you should do this in code behind... the other thing is - make sure you are getting some values via Debug.WriteLine() and then watch Output in VS.

Using 16-Bit textures

WP7 textures are supported in the Reach-Profile that WP7 devices falls into.
But XNA converts all my ressources upon adding them to a project to RGBA8, that's insane,
the displays of WP7 devices are 16 Bit!
Information: WP7 SDK 7.1 (XNA 4), Visual Studio 2010
Question part 1: How can I add a RGB565 texture to a XNA project and what is the correct way to load them inside a game?
Question part 2: Is there a reasonable 16 Bit texture format (within Reach) that supports alpha with MORE than 1Bit?
Question part 3: Is the normal rendertarget (I think that's what the screenbuffer is?) already 16 bit?
Part 1:
change surfaceformat like
graphics.PreferredBackBufferFormat = SurfaceFormat.Color;
(XNA) OR (in Silverlight/XNA Project)
SharedGraphicsDeviceManager.Current.PreferredBackBufferFormat = SurfaceFormat.Color; //supports 32bit ARGB each color 8bit
Part 2:
PNG should work... it supports 8bit (256) and 16Bit alpha channel(65.536 possibilities)

How can I use pixels in Visual Studio instead of inches?

I'm making reports in Business Intelligence Designer Studio (VS 2005). My reports will be viewed primarily on the screen, and I'd like to change my ruler to pixels instead of inches. Is this possible?
format is:
1pt = 1 pixel
1pc = 1 percent
1cm = 1 centimeter
1in = 1 inch

Why does VS2005 ReportViewer adds page breaks when setting up the margins?

I'm using the report viewer control included in Visual Studio 2005 and something odd is happening; when I set the margins on the report and I run the application the report viewer adds a page break after each content page, so if I have 2 content pages I end up having 4 pages of which 2 of them are blank pages.
If I set the margins of the report as zero then the report displays ok but of course it doesn't look good without the margins (and won't print properly)
I'm pretty sure the content is not wrapping or something that could cause this since I intentionally designed the tables to fit in 6 inches so, 6 inches plus 2 (one for each side margin) are 8 and I still have half an inch of space there so things don't mess up since this is in letter size which is 8.5" x 11"
Anybody has had this same behavior?
Thanks in advance.
Found the solution, turns out that the body should not be wider than the report size so for example if you have a standard letter page: 8.5" x 11" than the body should be less than 8.5, pay special attention if you have margins since you have to subtract those inches too, I want a one inch margin per side so left and right would sum up two inches:
8.5 - 2 = 6.5
So if you plan to have a letter report with one inch margins make sure the body is 6.5 at the most then it would fit.
Pretty obvious huh? but I did not figured it out at the beginning since the report viewer designer does not have any rulers to mark the beginning of the body, only for the report.

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