XAML and UI, whever it is found. Phone, Surface, Silverlight or WPF
Posted in Visual Studio, WPF on Oct 24th, 2009
I’ve mentioned MSDN Code Gallery in the past but let me call it out once again. Microsoft maintains two sites for sharing content. CodePlex (http://www.codeplex.com/) Codeplex is intended to be the home for your open source code project. As such it sports a number of project level enhancements: a version control system (which supports Team [...]
Posted in Code Examples, Tips, Visual Studio, WPF on Jun 26th, 2009
Dig through the .NET class libraries for a few minutes and you’ll find collections (islands) of static data. For example, the Fonts class exposes two static properties, Fonts.SystemFontFamilies and Fonts.SystemTypefaces, which are useful for enumerating the installed fonts on the system. In this tip, I’ll show you how to list font families in WPF by [...]
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 Visual Studio, WPF on Feb 24th, 2009
If you have ever been frustrated with the mutli-monitor support in Visual Studio 2008 you’ll be pleased to see what’s coming in VS 2010. VS 2010 will sport a new WPF IDE. Since the IDE is getting a complete rewrite it allows Microsoft to rethink multi-monitor. Every window in VS will be ‘tear-off’. Drag the [...]
Posted in Visual Studio, WPF on Feb 24th, 2009
WPF has been out for a couple years. That’s long enough that new releases of Microsoft products are sprouting WPF interfaces. Last year at PDC Microsoft announced that the code editor in Visual Studio would be re-written in WPF. Microsoft didn’t stop at the code editor though. Today Jason Zander, GM for Visual Studio, revealed [...]
Posted in Blend, Visual Studio on Feb 11th, 2009
I use Expression Blend a lot when doing WPF and Silverlight projects. When I started using Expression Blend I was surprised to see that it didn’t support an add-in model. Tools like Adobe Photoshop have a plug-in model. Visual Studio has a long history of supporting the extensible model via add-ins. It seemed surprising to [...]
Posted in Silverlight, Visual Studio on Mar 19th, 2008
I ran into some Silverlight install problems on one of my computers. The Silverlight runtime installed fine. The SDK installer and the modifications to Visual Studio 2008 was where I ran into trouble. Here are two blog posts that I found useful in solving these problems. BradleyBMichaelSync Error Messages “Could not load type. Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.Silverlight.IVsSilverlightService” “The [...]
Posted in Visual Studio on Jan 18th, 2008
Sometimes you just don’t want the add-in to run in Visual Studio. This tip, and dozens more, are available via Sara Ford. Disable Add-ins on Start-Up by holding the Left-Shift key down If you ever want to disable add-ins from starting on launch, you can hold down the Left-Shift key while VS is loading. [...]
Posted in Silverlight, Visual Studio on Dec 6th, 2007
Microsoft is constantly shipping products. Some products, like SQL Server 2005, had dependencies on other products and needed to wait for the other team to finish their code. SQL Server had to wait for the Visual Studio team to finish for example. Sometimes Microsoft releases the software in staggered waves. . VS 2005 shipped with [...]
Posted in Visual Studio on Dec 3rd, 2007
Microsoft released Visual Studio 2008 a couple weeks ago. If you’ve got an MSDN subscription you can download your copy and start coding. If you don’t have an MSDN subscription you have several options. Install one of the free Express versions Install 90 day trial version of VS 2008 Pro Wait for the the DVDs [...]
