Google Picasa Desktop Application

Google Picasa Desktop Application

Recently I have been developing a small windows application which interacts with the Picasa Web Albums Data API. Development has been in the C# programming language using Windows Forms as the GUI. The application allows a user to view/upload/download and search for public photos from the Google Picasa Web-service all from their desktop.

A Silverlight Bing API Web Application: Server side (Part 2)

This is part 2 of the A Silverlight Bing API Web Application walk-through. After the jump some Silverlight information, server side code and screen-shots of the application.

Cross-thread operation not valid

As I’ve been doing a lot of programming with win-forms, c# and c++ and making my applications multi-threaded – I came across a problem of allowing a newly created thread change the UI. I wanted to move away from using the BackgroundWorker class. Below I will discuss how to do this in c#.