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WPFe – you ain't seen nothing yet – Vista Simulator

Posted in Examples, WPFe on Feb 1st, 2007

You’ve installed the February 2007 CTP already haven’t you?  If not go here (Windows, Mac) ) and do it now. WPFe just gets better and better. Plus decent sample applications are starting to show up and their WOW factor is high. Latest WPFe example Http://www.vista.si is a new Vista simulator site developed with ASP.NET AJAX and WPFe.  [...]

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WPFe – Fix – Missing Intellisense in Visual Studio

Posted in Silverlight, WPFe on Jan 21st, 2007

You’re excited about WPFe and install the SDK.  You start working on your first application in Visual Studio. “Hey, where’s the intellisense?”  A fresh install of the WPF/E(Sliverlight) SDK doesn’t support intellisense. Don’t fret, I’ve found the solution.   The Fix Copy the WPFe schema file to your Visual Studio folder.  The following assumes you installed [...]

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WPFe Example – Virtual Earth overlay

Posted in .NET 3.0, Silverlight, WPFe on Jan 21st, 2007

We haven’t even begun to see the power of WPF/E(Silverlight) applications.  Wpfe is still in infancy (not even in beta release) and  programmers are making their first exploratory applications.  Trying ideas out before buying into that new technology. Much of the web communities attention is focused on AJAX, which is changing the way we think about web [...]

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WPFe Reflections Example

Posted in Silverlight, WPFe on Jan 17th, 2007

The new WPF/E(Silverlight) Developer Content site is starting to get some instructional content.  Their latest post answers one of the questions that I get asked frequently.  How do I create a reflection in WPFe?   Find out how here   -Walt

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ScottGu enters the WPF arena

Posted in .NET 3.0, Silverlight, WPF, WPFe on Jan 8th, 2007

If you are an ASP.NET developer it’s likely that you’ve read some of Scott Guthrie’s blog posts. Perhaps you’ve seen him talking about ASP.NET at PDC, ASP.NET Connections or VSLive. He’s certainly knows ASP.NET! Scott worked on early versions of IIS, created the ASP.NET team with Mark Anders and wrote many key parts of ASP.NET. Scott’s blog is [...]

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WPF Team Chat – What a madhouse!

Posted in .NET 3.0, WPF, WPFe on Jan 2nd, 2007

  What happens when you put over 100 WPF enthusiasts in a chatroom with a dozen WPF team members.  One boisterous and crazy chat session, that’s what.  Last December the WPF team decided to have a open chat about any WPF topic.  I looked at my calendar and was surprised to see that I had no [...]

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How would you rename WPFe?

Posted in .NET 3.0, Silverlight, WPF, WPFe on Jan 1st, 2007

Microsoft has a knack for turning rich evocative product names into lumps of dirty coal. Avalon –> WPF Indigo –> WCF Sparkle –> Expression Blend Actually I think I like the new Blend moniker better than all the previous beta names.  Except for Sparkle of course.  That was a great name. I hear that the [...]

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WPFe Example – Happy New Year 2007

Posted in Silverlight, WPFe on Jan 1st, 2007

I wanted to make a little WPFe(Silverlight) application to celebrate the start of the new year.  I had a bunch of ideas, but only a little time tonight.  I took the Game of Life demo from Scott and changed it into a bubble pattern generator.  It’s not very practical, but I had fun making it [...]

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WPFe (Silverlight) Example – the game of life

Posted in Silverlight, WPFe on Jan 1st, 2007

Technorati tags: WPFe, Games My friend K. Scott Allen writes a great blog on ASP.NET topics.  But Scott dabbles in a many other interesting technologies too.  Last week he put together his first WPFe(Silverlight) application, a version of the classic ‘Game of Life” I wanted to put a link to his app but all I could [...]

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