Learning more about WPF and Silverlight
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 23rd, 2007
I like to use Windows Explorer in maximize view most of the time. In Windows XP I would set the Maximize property in the shortcut. I tried setting the value in Vista but it made no difference.
Registry Setting
A little snooping in the registry turns up the MaximizeApps key. I don’t know if this works [...]
I’ve been using Vista on my laptop for the last week. Most days I’m very happy with the Vista experience. It certainly improves the WPF programming experience with the Windows Driver Display Model (WDDM) video drivers. The graphics render as smooth as silk.
Vista installed in about 20 minutes. I’m getting a 3.6 Windows Experience [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 22nd, 2007
I’ll be in Rochester NY next week. Bob Nims was gracious and invited me to speak at the Visual Developers of Upstate New York (VDUNY) group on Wednesday February 28th. I’m talking about WPF (of course). If you’re in the area stop by for the evening.
VDUNY Website
http://www.vduny.org/
Note: My talk is not listed on their [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 21st, 2007
Tim Sneath is posting a fascinating series, Great WPF Applications, that showcases real applications written to exploit WPF features. I’m guessing that if you are interested in WPF you’ve probably seen most of Tim’s series. If not, here are a couple links
I wanted to create a summary list of all the available WPF applications but Chad Brooks already [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 21st, 2007
Today is the online chat for the WPF and Expression teams. I’ll be there.
Join Microsoft Experts for an Online Chat!
WPF Technical Chat 2
Come and meet the WPF team! We’ll have a collection of the WPF team on hand to answer your technical questions, hear your feedback on what we should be doing in our next [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 19th, 2007
If you study computer graphics for even a short time you’ll discover acronyms, technical terms and concepts that don’t appear in a line-of-business programmers daily vocabulary. Where can you find information about color theory, animation sprites, pixels, video card specifications and other graphics related technology?
Dr Alvy Ray Smith has been a participant in many of the pioneering companies [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 18th, 2007
During the last year I’ve worked on a variety projects. I’ve also worked with a variety of teams, each with their own source control requirements. As a result, I have multiple Team Foundation servers registered in Visual Studio.
Have any idea what happens if you are not logged onto the network when starting Visual Studio? VS [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 9th, 2007
I’ve used Infragistics components on many projects over the years. Overall I’d have to give them a decent rating. Their treeview alone was worth the price on one project with a very tight deadline.
I wasn’t completely thrilled with their earlier .NET tools however . The Infragistics libraries object structure felt more like it was written for COM [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 8th, 2007
I need your help.
I’ve been asked to speak about WPF and WPFe at several conferences this year. The conference organizers are seeing an upswing in interest in WPF and WPFe. I suspect they are growing in popularity as more designers and developers see what can be accomplished with WPF/WPFe.
I’ve seen how blogs are transforming industries, revitalizing [...]
Posted in Examples, Silverlight, WPFe on Feb 6th, 2007
The Game of Life sample that Scott wrote last month is still popular on the Wpfwonderland site. I updated the sample to work with the February 2007 CTP. I can definitely see the performance improvements in the last drop.
Read the original article.
Just take me to the sample.
-Walt
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