BirthYearView 1.0.0

Another birth year tool? Yep. On the surface it may look a bit like BirthYearFinder, but the purpose is quite different.



This one shows you the names of cast and crew that have more than one birth year, in your collection. This can help you determine if the different birth years are correct.

Why I created this?
I found that a person in one of my profiles had a birth year entered, where in reality his birth year was unknown. So I added a new person with the same name, but without a birth year, and reassigned this person to the role. So far, so good.

But, as I already had several profiles that contained this name with  birth years, I started to think that some of those might also be incorrect. And - lo and behold - one certainly was. This made me wonder if I had more instances of incorrect birth year like this. And that lead to the creation of this tool.

While testing it I realized how hard it can be to find credits in a TV show with lots of episodes. So I added an Episode check function.



This makes it a lot easier to find entries that need their birth years to be corrected. (I may contemplate adding this feature to some other tools.)

Please read the help file for full details of this tool's features!

A small 'feature': When choosing Lookup, the following error message appears in an error window before loading the correct IMDb data for a brief moment, which changes then to an error 404 page.

System.NullReferenceException: Der Objektverweis wurde nicht auf eine Objektinstanz festgelegt.
  bei BirthYearView.ucForumBrowser.Lookup(String Name) in C:\Users\gsyre\OneDrive\Documents\Visual Studio Projects\BirthYearView\BirthYearView\ucForumBrowser.xaml.vb:Zeile 19.

This happens for all titles, Gunnar. And it may not even be related to your PlugIn, as I completely reinstalled DVDP a few weeks ago and I do get another error message on start-up (System.Ressources.Extensions,...) .

So, possibly that error is just triggered again by your PlugIn 

Found the 'culprit' - DJs CastCrewCopy&Paste triggered the error on start-up. Uninstalled, but it doesn't affect the error in BYV.

Yes, I have Edge installed and tried it out just now, working fine. I also loaded IMDb on it, just to be sure.

Thanks to TraunStaa I have identified the bug that throws the error. This happens when you have a person with a birth year that doesn't appear in the birth year list. This will be fixed in the next version.

The IMDb issue is a bit more difficult. This seems to be dependent on Windows locality. I can probably fix it for Germany, but I would like to find a general solution. Worst case - I may have to cripple one feature a bit.