XAML and UI, whever it is found. Phone, Surface, Silverlight or WPF
Posted in WPF on Mar 24th, 2009
For the last year I’ve been talking about the need to make a set of themes and templates available for WPF developers. There are plenty of companies who want nice looking WPF applications (other than the default Windows XP/Vista look) but don’t know where to start. I’ve argued, to anyone who’ll listen, that we need [...]
Posted in MIX, Silverlight on Mar 18th, 2009
The stream of product announcements and feature enhancements during the Mix09 keynote was non-stop. I estimate that Scott Guthrie must have rattled off ninety or more of these tidbits in the two and a half hour Mix09 kickoff. At a rapid pace Scott discussed IIS, Silverlight Expression Blend, the Microsoft Web Installer, adaptive streaming and many [...]
Posted in Conferences, Silverlight, WPF on Mar 16th, 2009
Attend a keynote at a big Microsoft conference and at some point in the presentation you will hear a musical fanfare followed by a breathless product announcement. Depending on the show and the time of year the announcements can be hum-drum or spectacular. Do you remember when Microsoft announced a new development framework called .NET [...]
Are you a sushi veteran? If so it is probably hard to remember your first few trips to a sushi bar. Looking at the names, wondering what to order. Nigiri, Onigiri, Temaki. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have an expert on hand to guide you step by step through your dinner order? Phenomblue, a [...]
Posted in Reflecting On Design on Mar 14th, 2009
Sometimes the best way to tell a story is with an animation. Melih Bilgil, a visual artist from Germany, show splendid usage of simple black icons on a white canvas in his ‘History of the Internet’ video. Can you spot the subtle use of color in the video? PICOL Melih created a new [...]
Posted in Conferences, MIX on Mar 14th, 2009
Mix09 is coming next week. I can’t wait to be there and see all the announcements about Silverlight 3. Since this is the main Microsoft RIA event it is loaded with enough Silverlight and WPF content to keep even an aged RIA veteran happy. Mix is more than just technology news however. The Mix team [...]
Posted in .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, Visual Studio on Mar 2nd, 2009
Are you a .NET developer? If so, I bet you are familiar with CodePlex.com. CodePlex has been around for several years. There are thousands of projects hosted on CodePlex, some have a very active developer community working on project improvements. CodeGallery There is lesser known Microsoft code sharing site called CodeGallery. What if you just [...]
Posted in WPF on Mar 1st, 2009
I’ve had several WPF projects which required showing a log window. The idea is to log a constant stream of status messages for a admin to monitor. You could write your own LogWindow and pass messages into the window but there is an easier way. Tell your WPF application to run as a ‘Console’ application. [...]
