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Petzold strikes again!
(Or, rather, struck again last summer.) I just found Jeff's post about receiving a book from Petzold complete with witty comments . I was also a lucky recipient of an autographed book, so I thought I'd share what Petzold had to say to me: Funny stuff! Read More...
Posted 29 December 07 09:11 by Adam Nathan | 6 Comments   
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Today's ego boosts
PC World has just named Popfly one of the " 25 Most Innovative Products of the Year " WPF Unleashed has just been nominated for a 2007 Jolt Product Excellence Award , which recognizes "the most innovative, trend-making, ahead-of-the-curve products" Obviously Read More...
Posted 28 December 07 06:46 by Adam Nathan | 2 Comments   
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The WPF Challenge
Check it out . From the man who thinks I use too many exclamation points ! (It's true. I like exclamation points and parentheses!) Read More...
Posted 14 February 07 07:05 by Adam Nathan | 3 Comments   
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WPF Unleashed is flying off the shelves... even the shelf in my office!
I suppose I should be flattered. It seems that someone swiped my copy of WPF Unleashed out of my office last week! (Nothing else appears to be missing.) It does have a few identifying marks on it, so the perpetrator better be careful! At any rate, thanks Read More...
Posted 05 February 07 07:15 by Adam Nathan | 9 Comments   
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WPF Unleashed is now available!
I got my hands on two copies while on vacation and gave them to family members, but now that I'm back home I need to wait for the rest of my copies to arrive. I snooped around the blogosphere and found two references to it: Adam Nathan's new WPF book Read More...
Posted 05 January 07 01:08 by Adam Nathan | 10 Comments   
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WPF Unleashed: The perfect stocking stuffer!
This weekend I entered the final phase of tweaking and reviewing, so WPF Unleashed is on the verge of being printed! The book is now scheduled to be available right before the new year (December 27, according to Amazon). Although this isn't quite in time Read More...
Posted 13 November 06 06:21 by Adam Nathan | 9 Comments   
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WPF Unleashed!
It's official... my WPF book now has a title, a temporary cover, and is listed on Amazon: The details aren't published yet, but this book will have a feature that I think is quite cool... and I've never seen it done in any other book. So stay tuned! I Read More...
Posted 17 May 06 07:30 by Adam Nathan | 4 Comments   
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Aero Glass inside a WPF Window
Recently Tim shared some code for extending Windows Vista Aero "Glass" inside a Windows Forms window . It sounds like he's eventually planning on showing this with WPF (among other things). I also looked into this for my upcoming WPF book, and I couldn't Read More...
Posted 04 May 06 07:30 by Adam Nathan | 26 Comments   
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WPF Book Update (and SD West 2006)
Long time no blog, but I’ve got a good excuse. Since my last post, I’ve become a father! This event, of course, made me seriously doubt (even more than usual) the wisdom of writing another book. Here's a quote from my wife: “You wrote a book during our Read More...
Posted 16 March 06 07:15 by Adam Nathan | 12 Comments   
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The passing of one book and the birth of another
It's official... I got a letter informing me that .NET and COM , almost four years after its release, is out of print. Of course, it still lives on in PDF form . Like Luke , I've sometimes been baffled by the apparent lack of supply. I've been told many Read More...
Posted 12 December 05 07:15 by Adam Nathan | 4 Comments   
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WPF developer/designer cooperation in action!
Nate Dunlap is an awesome designer. Check out what he did with the Windows Media Player Visualization project I posted last week . Now, I'm guessing he has more programming skills than your average designer, but I love seeing a design go (essentially) Read More...
Posted 02 November 05 10:37 by Adam Nathan | 0 Comments   
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Using COM Interop to Create a WPF Visualization for Windows Media Player
It had been awhile since I've given a talk on COM Interop & PInvoke, but last week I did just that for a developer lab in Redmond. For this, I dug up my old ".NET Visualization for Windows Media Player" example, which uses C#, COM Interop, and some Read More...
Posted 24 October 05 07:15 by Adam Nathan | 4 Comments   
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XAML *Video* Playing Cards
On XAMLshare I just put the source for the video playing cards I showed in my PDC talk and on the Channel 9 video : Put the XAML inside XAMLPad (Beta 1) and qualify the .wmv references with their full path. Enjoy! Tags: PDC , PDC05 Read More...
Posted 16 September 05 10:29 by Adam Nathan | 5 Comments   
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Light up on Windows Vista: The "Top 10" List
PDC attendees got a "top 10" poster, but the details are now live on MSDN: " 10 things you can do to make your application shine when it runs on Windows Vista ." They are, in no particular order: 1. Follow the Windows Vista style guidelines 2. Enrich Read More...
Posted 12 September 05 10:42 by Adam Nathan | 9 Comments   
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Announcing www.winfxhearts.com!
To correspond with my PDC talk about making an application "light up" on Windows Vista, I've created www.winfxhearts.com . This site has a ClickOnce link that enables you can play a version of my new & improved Internet Hearts game. Here's a "before Read More...
Posted 08 September 05 07:30 by Adam Nathan | 19 Comments   
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