XAML and UI, whever it is found. Phone, Surface, Silverlight or WPF
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 30th, 2008
The biggest change in Office 2007 was the new Ribbon based UI. That Ribbon is loved by many and loathed by some. According to the data I saw from Microsoft the Office Ribbon has a high satisfaction factor among Office 2007 adopters. Trend Setter What was the first thing that happened when Microsoft released Office [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 29th, 2008
Tonight was the WPF Disciples dinner at PDC 2008. An evening of wonderful food and drink at Morton’s Steakhouse in downtown Los Angeles. But it wasn’t a normal dinner. No gathering can be considered normal when Dr. WPF shows up. The good doctor deliberately shrouds himself in mystery, perhaps because he is a little mad [...]
Posted in WPF on Oct 28th, 2008
I just walked out of a demo session with Josh Smith. Josh was gracious enough to show Mike Brown and me his new Crack.net tool. A very impressive first release. A runtime debugging and scripting tool that gives you access to the internals of a WPF or Windows Forms application With Crack.net you can use [...]
Posted in PDC on Oct 28th, 2008
Every few years the computer industry discovers a technology that dramatically improves our computing experience. Here’s a few technologies that have fundamentally changed the way you and I work with our computers. Add your own candidates in the comments. Wireless Graphics User Interface Mouse input Laptop form factor RSS LCD Flat Screens Networks Internet Multi-touch [...]
Posted in PDC, Silverlight on Oct 28th, 2008
Silverlight 2 released a few weeks ago. There were a few controls that were missing from the release however. Microsoft didn’t forget about these controls, instead they worked on them out of band and released them as a CodePlex project. This is becoming a common pattern in the development of frameworks at Microsoft. The CodePlex [...]
The WPF ribbon control is finally public. The ribbon control is easy to add to your WPF application. It allows you to add your own custom panels and controls. It has native support for the WPF Page journal, adding back and forward buttons to the ribbon and ensuring that they just work with your page [...]
Posted in PDC on Oct 28th, 2008
Announced at PDC 2008 The Virtual Drive support in Windows 7 has some nice enhancements. There is now built in support for mounting existing VHD’s. You can create a new fixed or dynamic VHD from the drive control panel. My favorite feature? You can mount a VHD at boot time and then boot to the [...]
Posted in PDC on Oct 28th, 2008
Announced at PDC 2008. Windows 7 has a new document management system called ‘Libraries’. Within Windows Explorer you can create multiple libraries. Each library has settings for file types ( *.docx, *.xlsx) and multiple locations (c:\docs, d:\archive). Essentially you get a custom search pattern for your entire network that is saveable and auto loaded into [...]
Posted in WPF on Oct 28th, 2008
I decided to record videos explaining the Shazzam UI instead of writing help pages. They are now available on the Shazzam site. http://shazzam-tool.com Shazzam redux The goal of Shazzam is to make it simple to edit and test WPF Pixel Shader Effects.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 27th, 2008
Jeff Barnes thoughts on the Keynote and Windows Azure http://tinyurl.com/5od69k Gilbert Corrales live blogs the keynote http://bits.samiq.net/2008/10/live-from-la-its-pdc-keynote-day-1.html
