XAML and UI, whever it is found. Phone, Surface, Silverlight or WPF
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 .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, Code Examples on Oct 10th, 2008
The more I use LINQ the more I love the power it brings to my code. Whenever I find my self looking at a enumerable type or method I’m curious how I can query the information. Case in point. I needed to find only the properties on a type that are declared in that type, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 problem [...]
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 [...]
Microsoft has received a steady chorus of requests from the MSDN crowd. “Please include Expression Blend in MSDN!”. We’ve lobbied long and hard and Microsoft listened. Today Microsoft announced that both Expression Web and Expression Blend will be in MSDN. Excellent news! From Soma Somasegar Based on this feedback, I am pleased to say [...]
I’ve been using Vista on my laptop for the last week. Most days I’m very happy with the Vista experience. It certainly improves the WPF programming experience with the Windows Driver Display Model (WDDM) video drivers. The graphics render as smooth as silk. Vista installed in about 20 minutes. I’m getting a 3.6 Windows Experience [...]
