Win-Labs

My Website: Corpi1.uk

This project is my window alternative for Q-Labs for Sound technicians that dont want to or have to opertunity to use the real thing.

Installation

To install please head to the latest relase here.

Building

If you want to build the project yourself, you can do so by following these steps:

1. Install Visual Studio (Community Edition works plenty fine)
   • When installing, make sure to select the .NET desktop development workload as this installs the required components for building WPF applications.
2. Clone the master branch repository to your local machine using Git (can be done in Visual Studio if you want) or download it as a ZIP file.
3. Open the folder in Visual Studio as a new project.
4. Build the project by selecting Build > Build Solution from the menu or pressing Ctrl + Shift + B
   • This should install all the required dependencies and build the project if it doesn't manual install the following as NuGet packages:
   • Newtonsoft.Json
   • NAudio
   • This can be done by right clicking on the project in the Solution Explorer and selecting Manage NuGet Packages. Then search for the package name and click Install.
5. One the build completes you can run it in two ways:
   1. Run from Visual Studio by selecting Debug > Start Debugging from the menu or pressing F5
   2. Run the built executable from \"The folder in visual studio"\bin\Debug\net8.0-windows7.0 (replace "The folder in visual studio" with the path to the folder you opened in Visual Studio).
      • If you built a release version the path is the same as above but replace Debug with Release.
      • The executable will be named Win-Labs.exe Just double click it to run it.
6. Extras
   • You can also run the project from a different location by copying the entire folder to a different location and running it from there.
     • Keep in mind if you place the program in a protected folder it may not function properly (e.g. any appdata folder, root of your system, any system critical folder)
     • This is useful if you want to run the project from a USB drive or a different computer.
     • Just make sure to copy the entire folder and not just the executable as it may require other files in the folder to run properly.
   • You can move the entire folder to a different location and run it from there as well as rename the folder.
   • You can also make a shortcut to the executable and place it on your desktop or pin it to the taskbar for easy access. You can do this by:
     1. Right click on the Win-Labs.exe file and select Create shortcut.
     2. Drag the shortcut to your desktop.
     • Or
     1. Right click on the Win-Labs.exe file and select Pin to taskbar.

License

This project is licensed under the Corpi1 Software License (Based on Mozilla Public License 2.0).

You are free to use, modify, and distribute the software. Businesses and individuals can use it, including in commercial activities. However, you may not sell, repackage, or monetize the software itself.

See the LICENSE file for full terms.

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