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 [...]
You know the drill. You’re working on a presentation or document and you need a picture. If you want to search locally you pull up Windows Explorer and enter a search term. If you are lucky you find the picture you want an paste into your application. Actually I use Copernic Desktop Search instead of [...]
A couple days ago I posted about Shazzam, the new WPF Pixel Shader Effect Testing Tool. The goal of Shazzam is to make it simple to edit and test WPF Pixel Shader Effects. I got a flurry of responses and questions about the tool. That’s great, looks like it’s going to fill a niche in [...]
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, [...]
Developers love to create utility tools. When you find that you want to simplify you programming life you look for a tool to solve the problem. If you can’t find one, you start dreaming how to build one yourself. Whenever a new standard like SQL or XML is adopted the utility writers are immediately on [...]
Microsoft has just released a fantastic WPF Shader Effects library on CodePlex. Jaime Rodriguez posted more details about the library on his blog. Here are a couple samples effects from the library. I encourage you to download a copy of the library and give it a try. Fun stuff. Plus, keep your eyes open for [...]
.NET 3.5 shipped a few months ago. There are a number of improvements that apply to WPF applications. Today I want to talk about the Binding class improvements. Performance Some good news on the performance front. The WPF and ADO.NET team have spent considerable resources improving the data-binding performance. More details in future posts. Binding [...]
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 [...]
