Giving a Presentation (Killer tool for all)

Article
06/01/2010

Nuestro buen amigo Fernando Machado, ha creado un excelente herramienta para todos aquellos que damos presentaciones, descárguenlo, úsenlo y ayuden a mejorarlo; aquí el detalle:

Giving a Presentation

Introduction
Consider the following situations: You are about giving a presentation and connect the projector to your laptop; suddenly everybody start laughing, and you realize you are duplicating (instead of extending) your desktop in the projector, with a very embarrassing picture as background. You are very sober to have any inappropriate picture as background, but you are a bit lazy to arrange your working documents in folders, and your desktop is full of them; same as before, you connect the projector assuming it will show your extended desktop, but the audience ends by looking all your private working documents spread over the screen. You are in the middle of your presentation and an instant messenger window pop ups, with a joking message from one of your coworkers. You have been talking for a while on a single presentation slide and the screen saver decides to do his work by turning the screen (and the projected image) out. Have you ever faced one of these situations? If so, or if you want to prevent them, Giving a Presentation is for you.

Project Description
Useful for people doing presentations, this application hides desktop icons, disables screensaver, closes chosen programs when presentation starts, etc. and restores settings when presentation ends. Initially built as a MEF sample, it turned out to be useful by itself.