XAML and UI, whever it is found. Phone, Surface, Silverlight or WPF
Posted in .NET 3.5, Visual Studio, WPF on Nov 21st, 2007
Most of my articles on this site are focused on WPF or Silverlight. I work with many of the other technologies that are part of .NET too. It’s just that I like the rich client technologies and this site is where I talk about them. You’re probably not surprised to discover that when I write [...]
Posted in .NET 3.5, Visual Studio on Nov 21st, 2007
You know it has to happen. I’m guessing you’re either a developer or designer if you’re reading this blog. So you’ve work on projects of your own. No matter how much you test and fix your application there is always another bug. You release the product, have a rousing ship party, and before you’ve had [...]
Posted in .NET 3.5, Visual Studio, WPF on Nov 20th, 2007
In part one I discussed the Tools/Options/Text Editor/XAML/Miscellaneous section. In part two I look at the XAML Formatting section. The XAML editor in Visual Studio 2008 is much improved over the 2005 Extensions version. Auto Format Developers are a picky bunch. I can spend 30 minutes arranging my code/XML/html/xaml to my liking, getting the spacing [...]
Posted in .NET 3.5, Visual Studio, WPF on Nov 20th, 2007
The XAML editor in Visual Studio 2008 is much improved over the 2005 Extensions version. Let’s take a look as some of the preferences you can change in the Tools/Options dialog. Full XAML view I like working in the XAML editor in Visual Studio. Most of time if I want a WSYWIG editor I’ll use [...]
Posted in .NET 3.5, Visual Studio on Nov 20th, 2007
I’ve been living in Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite (Beta) for the last four months. Using VS2008 has been annoying and exasperating one minute and fun and productive the next. Most of the pain points for me have been in the WPF designer and XAML editor. Expression Blend Truncated menu bug OK, this first one [...]
Posted in .NET 3.5, Visual Studio on Nov 19th, 2007
Today Microsoft announced the release of Visual Studio 2008. I was on the MSDN servers as soon as I heard about the release and an hour later I had the Visual Studio Team Suite ISO on my computer. This should be a simple install but I’d installed the last VS beta on my laptop. That [...]
Posted in Visual Studio on Nov 18th, 2007
Apparently Microsoft has another site for sharing source code besides CodePlex. I learned about Popfly Explorer today and decided to take a look. First though, what about CodePlex? From the CodePlex siteCodePlex is Microsoft’s open source project hosting web site. You can use CodePlex to create new projects to share with the world, join others [...]
I posted recently about the upcoming Word to FlowDocument converter due out later this month. I should point out that there are a couple existing tools for creating FlowDocuments. OpenXMLWriter http://www.openxml.biz/OpenXMLWriter.html OpenXML Writer is an opensource text editor for creating WordprocessingML files (.docx). The generated files can be opened and edited in Microsoft(TM) Word 2007 [...]
Posted in .NET 3.0, Visual Studio, WPF on Nov 17th, 2007
A couple months ago I hacked together a quick prototype that converts a Microsoft Word Document to FlowDocument. It uses XSLT to convert the Word ‘Open XML’ to the FlowDocument XAML. The prototype is very rough and I never finished it. I have it on my task list , but it hasn’t moved very high [...]
Working with WPF for more than a few months starts to change the way you think about UI. I’m sure you have experienced it yourself. It influences little things; Why should listbox be filled with a list of strings? Couldn’t I put put a picture or video in the listbox? Do treeviews have to be [...]
