XAML and UI, whever it is found. Phone, Surface, Silverlight or WPF
Posted in Expression, PDC, Silverlight, WPF on Nov 13th, 2009
One of the neatest additions to Expression Blend 3 is the Effects pane. You’ll find it in the Asset panel. This makes it dead simple to add an effect to an item on the Blend Artboard. Just drag the effect onto the desired item and you get an instant effect. The effect is easy to [...]
Posted in PDC on Nov 12th, 2009
Here’s a list of the Expression Blend specific talks next week at PDC 09. SketchFlow: Prototyping to the Rescue See how SketchFlow lets designers and developers create, distribute, review and evolve compelling, rich prototypes cost-effectively and easily. Learn how SketchFlow can help you improve your designs through rapid prototyping, and how you can extend and [...]
Here’s a list of the Windows 7 and DirectX specific talks next week at PDC 09. Windows 7 and Graphics Windows Touch Deep Dive Windows provides applications a default experience for gestures and touch interaction. Applications that want to go beyond that basic experience have a powerful platform to build on top of. This session [...]
Posted in PDC, Silverlight on Nov 10th, 2009
Here’s a list of the Silverlight specific talks next week at PDC 09. Silverlight Getting the Most out of Microsoft Silverlight 3 This is an all day workshop on Monday. It promises to be full of great content from developers working in the Silverlight trenches. Come learn how the robust features of Silverlight 3 help [...]
A common dilemma while attending big conferences is choosing which sessions to attend. Look around you at break time and you’ll see scores of attendees analyzing the conference schedule and making pencil marks next to the talks they find interesting. Once they’ve settled on a plan they scurry off to the session, grabbing a few [...]
Posted in PDC on Nov 4th, 2009
You probably don’t need me to tell you that the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (affectionately known as PDC) is coming up soon. There are still plenty of tickets left for the event. Come on down, I’ll buy you a mocha.
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 [...]
