Marc Gregoire’s Blog

During my trip to the Microsoft MVP Global Summit my blog was hacked and I had to take it offline because it was trying to infect users with a virus. It took my quite some time to restore everything

Personally I just cannot understand why people hack blogs or any other site for that matter Anyway, everything should be working again now…

The following new features have been implemented in Wallpaper Cycler:

• New option to disable word wrapping for notes in calender notes objects.
• Some Open/Save dialogs now have the true Vista layout when running on Windows Vista.

I also made the following bug fixes for Wallpaper Cycler:

• WPC crashed when loading BMP files that where compressed with for example RLE8 compression.
• By default WPC will no longer make a sound when cycling or when CPU Load is too high to cycle. Of course this can be enabled again in File > Document Properties.
• The screensaver will now wait until the transition effect is finished before starting the timer for the next image.
• The “Circles Out” screensaver transition effect didn’t always completely covered the screen depending on your resolution.
• Wallpaper Cycler didn’t always start automatically when logging in to Windows and autostart was enabled.
• Cycle-at-times would not check exactly at the new minute when resuming from standy or hibernation.
• Fixed some problems with the cycle-at-time feature especially in combination with hibernation.
• You could press the “Delete” key on your keyboard to delete the “My Layouts” category which would crash WPC.

Yesterday April 1st (not an april fools ), I got an email from Microsoft saying that I got the Microsoft MVP Visual C++ Award for 2008. MVP stands for Most Valuable Professional.

 See my MVP profile.

On the same topic, I’m also looking forward to the Microsoft Global MVP Summit in Seattle. This is a 4 day gathering of MVPs from all over the world and starts on 14th of April. It will be a great time to get to know some fellow MVPs.