Learning more about WPF and Silverlight
Posted in Visual Studio on Aug 27th, 2007
Sometimes it’s the simple things that make your day. Double-click a *.SLN file with Visual Studio 2005 running on Vista and nothing happens. Fixed in VS 2008. Quiet sigh of happiness.
Posted in .NET 3.0, Visual Studio, WPF on Aug 26th, 2007
After spending many months fighting the Visual Studio 2005 XAML editor it is nice to work in VS 2008
There are lots of little extras in Visual Studio 2008. Here is a nice improvement in the XAML editor. When adding an xmlns attribute (mapping) there is a dropdown showing your project and all the .NET assemblies. [...]
Posted in .NET 3.0, Visual Studio on Aug 26th, 2007
I’m using Visual Studio 2008 more and more each week. It’s installed side by side with VS 2005 on my primary laptop and I’m going to start using it for my WPF presentations. Until recently all my presentation have been on either VS 2005 or on VS 2008 running in a virtual machine.
There is a lot to [...]
Posted in .NET 3.0, Presentations, WPF on Aug 18th, 2007
It’s turning out to be a busy month for WPF and me. Last week I was at Devscovery Redmond. This upcoming week I’m going to be in Silicon Valley. I’ve scheduled a WPF talk during the week at the Bay.NET User Group. Later this month I’ll be teaching my WPF course at Microsoft. Plus I’ve got a couple [...]
Posted in .NET 3.0 on Aug 16th, 2007
I was talking to John Robbins about debugging .NET applications today during lunch at Devscovery. He answered a question I had about the infamous ‘CLR has been unable to transition from COM context … for 60 seconds’ error.
This occurs for me when using a Debugger.Break statement in my Winform code while demonstrating examples during a workshop. One fix for the [...]
Posted in .NET 3.0, Conferences, Silverlight, WPF on Aug 13th, 2007
Tomorrow (August 14, 2007) is the first day of Devscovery. This conference is presented by the Wintellect crew and it looks like it will be full of great content. I’m biased, of course, because I’m one of the speakers. But check out the agenda for yourself.
What’s the first thing you notice? Mark Russinovich is giving [...]
Posted in Silverlight on Aug 11th, 2007
You had to know that the aftermarket vendors are working on Silverlight controls. Silverlight, after all, has no controls in the the current versions.
ComponentOne is showcasing their ‘Sapphire’ Control suite on their new Control Gallery site. There are more than thirty controls available including:
Buttons: Repeat, Checkbox,Group,Radio
Containers: Flow, Stack, Dock, Hyper, Split, ScrollViewer
Date/Time: Calendar, DatePicker
Lists: Listbox, Treeview, Menu, [...]
Posted in WPF on Aug 11th, 2007
The <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionary> tag is a simple way to add external resources to your application. Imagine that your designer creates some fabulous styles and you want to share them across multiple projects.
Cut and Paste is sooo out of fashion. Don’t do it!
Place your styles in an external xaml file or assembly and use the MergedDictionary [...]
Posted in Games, Silverlight on Aug 9th, 2007
Jeff Prosise, one of my cohorts at Wintellect, is spending the summer creating Silverlight courseware. if you’d like to hear what he thinks about Silverlight you can catch his Silverlight presentations at Devscovery-Redmond next week. There are still a few seats left if you want to attend.
Jeff is creating some interesting Silverlight applications while researching Silverlight. [...]
