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ColorTrack-Realtime WPF application

Most recently created application using Visual Studio 2008, .NET Framework 3.5, and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and a few different national instruments devices.  WPF is a new windows UI library that is the next evolution of windows forms.  It provides flexibility by using XAML which is an XML based markup language to describe the UI.  The actual C# code is separated from the XAML markup.  The application reads data from various national instruments devices and displays/logs that data for the user.

Accessing domain name but pointing it to your local machine

There’s a simple trick I used to point a www.SomebodysDomain.com to my local machine since I’m doing development. He had hardcoded his domain name into his application which causes problems for when you don’t want to test on the production server.

I just edited my hosts file and added the line in /etc/hosts (OSX)

127.0.0.1 www.SomebodysDomain.com