XAML and UI, whever it is found. Phone, Surface, Silverlight or WPF
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29th, 2007
I want one of these. The Microsoft Surface Website launched tonight. Take a trip to http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ to see the one of the coolest Implementations of user interactive design to make it to production. You may have seen this TED demo. In this demo, Jeff Han shows off (for the first time publicly) a high-resolution multi-touch computer screen [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29th, 2007
Occasionally, when I have a Virtual PC session running on my computer, the clipboard on the host stops working. I can copy or cut an item but the paste shortcuts don’t work. Also all the paste menus on the host computer are disabled. I’m not talking about pasting to the VPC. A simple copy/paste in notepad running on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 23rd, 2007
I’m in Philadelphia this week. I’m staying at the Homewood Suites in Bala Cynwyd. I’ve never stayed at a Homewood property before. This one is nice, I hope I stay here the next time I’m working in the area. I was happy to see that they provide free wired Internet in the room. The hotel [...]
There is a lot of goodness in the vast graphics world of WPF. Today I want to talk about VisualBrush. Brushes The WPF framework supports six brushes. SolidColorBrush LinearGradientBrush RadialGradientBrush The first three brushes are self explanatory. The next three are a bit more complex and require a little bit of explanation. DrawingBrush ImageBrush VisualBrush These [...]
Posted in Silverlight on May 2nd, 2007
Ah, the joys of beta software! I went to the Silverlight.net site last night to look at some of the Mix07 demos. I tried to view the chess sample. I clicked on the sample and up pops this Silverlight badge. This looks promising. During Scott Guthrie’s keynote he mentioned that Microsoft is focused on making the Silverlight [...]
