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Congratulations to the MEF team for releasing MEF Preview 2 to CodePlex. Last year I got to spend a bunch of time working on MEF, and it was great. We now are basing a lot of our current work on...
As Don said, the first CTP of the Managed Extensibility Framework is available. We use this code a bunch on my team and are building lots of stuff on top of it. It's great...
I've posted the Chapter 1 code samples. I'll also get this posted up to the "official" site soon....
Looks like Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Basic 9 (and lots of other fun stuff) are going to RTM soon. Very cool... I'm starting to see a lot of possibilities with VB ...
In case you missed the significance of the last snippet of code... VB supports "relaxed delegates" - so you can drop the "sender As Object, e As EventArgs" ...
Earlier this summer I recorded some videos at TechEd, they are nowposted... wahoo! (Thanks Eric and Ted!) Essential Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) (video)XAM...
Rob links to a very cool XBAP written by Eric Sink. Eric wrote this pretty cool application using WPF 3D support, and recommends people pickup 3D Programming for Windows by...
Miguel on Toshok on JSON. What I find even more interesting is that JSON, XAML, and C# 3.0 all share a very similiar data model. You can imagine some simple transformations to go from C# 3.0 ...
I finished up my talk today. The room was pretty full, people seemed fairly engaged. I thought I had too much content so I rushed a bit, finishing 10 minutes early, but then no o...
Just landed in Orlando... tomorrow AM is my presentation 'Xaml as a better C#'... still need to work through the demos to make sure it goes smoothly, but it should be fun....
SearchVB.com is hosting Chapter 1 of my book... very cool!...
Wahoo! Got the real printed version of my book today. Very cool. I'm terrified to read it because I might find an error. Chris Sells assures me that I'll find many. ...
Scott Guthrie is a special guest star on Red vs. Blue. The video player is written in WPF/E... Congrats!...
Mike Hillberg has a great writeup on the XamlWriter built into .NET 3.0....
Reflector 5.0 is released... still not WPF based though[from Chris Sells]...
This is a great video about Web 2.0 - one of the better "concept" video's I've seen, and largely devoid of the current marketting words about Web 2.0... I don't think I saw AJA...
I had the opportunity to do two sessions of pair programming today. One with Brian Pepin the other with Randy Kimmerly (blog is *very* out of day). The two sessions where very di...
Don is now bringing politics into the REST debate... didn't know he had that good of a sense of humor....
UIML, jUIML, UsiXML... interesting stuff... The UIML Wiki page even mentions XAML :) [sorry for the random links, just doing a little spelunking around the net... ] ...
Over on www.ASP.netthey just released a bunch of tutorial videos. Very nice presentation, and I love that they start with installation. [via ScottGu]...
Rob Relyea points to the new OpenXML.biz editor... ...
RedWhale does XIML... a "multi-channel" UI model... Unfortunately they seem to be promoting a uber presentation model - the one abstraction that can capture all other abstra...
Late to the "congrats" party, but the WPF/E folks released their latest CTP. Michael Harsh has posted a new version of WPF/E Pad that runs on the new bits... Windows and Mac, of course....
I've been doing a lot of 3D modeling lately, using Google's SketchUp (formerly from @Last software). I love the software so much that I put down my credit card and purchased a fu...
Check out this WPF/E sample, that simulates Vista... [from Savas]...
Interesting sample... unfortunately the setup for it was too involved, but I love the idea of driving more UI from a set of shared rules....
No, not alphabet soup... rather a set of cool apps that have a seamless installation experience and run in the browser. Secure, full power of the platform... i love it. T...
Wasn't too painfull of a process, my copy editor was great. One more step in the book is complete. Available for pre-order on Amazon. According to Amazon it will be a...
Tim lists his favorite configuration......
Hello from WPF/E! new agHost("wpfeControlHost20061204", "wpfeControl20061204", "360", "60", "transparent", "post20061204"); ...
Check it out! Windows, Macintosh, yes. XAML, yes. JScript, yes. I'll work on it more later, but I've replaced my site logo with a bit of XAML :) ...
Want to read the pages from Essential WPF but you don't want to download the .NET 3.0 RC1 bits... well, I missed the announcement but Rob forwarded me Andy's article linki...
As part of finishing the book, I've needed to setup the web site for the book. I plan on putting source code for samples, extra frameworks, and related materials for the book. Right now it's pre...
Yes, it's finally available... WPF, WCF, and the rest of .NET 3.0 shipped RC1 today (including the RC1 SDK). Wahoo! PS: old news, and not related to .NET 3.0... the Po...
Today I went to the marina around 8:00am. The goal was to spend some time on the lake and work on review feedback for the book. I managed to get about 30 minutes of solid work in...
Today it looks like the final grade for the patio was put in, and I believe the large grave-like looking things are for the footings of the columns. ...
Consolas is one of the new fonts included in Vista, it is a font optimized for developers... very cool. You can download it now if you own Visual Studio. ...
No, not that kind. This weekend I went on my innagural trip through the Ballard Locks with my boat. Quite the adventure. Originally I had planned on going with Mik...
These sound totally cool... can't wait to play with them....
Greg Schechter blogs again... now all DWM, all the time... well, kinda....
Two months with no posts. That's a while. I won't bore you all with the reasons, but I think I'm back. A quick status report... 1. My machine that runs NewsGator f...
Valentin has an amazingly cool chess game in WinFX... if you have the Feb CTP installed you can just run the application in the browser with no prompts! :)...
Daniel released a new version of his 3DTools project... now for the December CTP. Cool stuff....
Today I spent some solid time working on the book (9 pages, wahoo!) and worked on a bunch of data binding topics. While it didn't make the book, I really liked this sample I wrot...
One feature missing from the boat was a GPS. Since we intend to take the boat out into the sound and up to the San Juan islands, I felt a good GPS was a requirement. That doesn't...
I started blogging on December 23, 2002, and have had various levels of success in keeping up with my blog. Because my blog-iversary falls close to the new year, it's nice to use...
The latest WinFX bits are now available, the December CTP. A big piece of news in this release - the availability of a visual designer for Visual Studio users, code named "Cider...
The latest MSDN holiday episode is available, while the code and technology is the best to date (IMHO), the singing is probably the worst I've ever heard... ouch....
By request, here is an update on the book. Going slow, but making some forward progress. My developmental editor (Michael Weinhardt) just moved from Australia to the US, he n...
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