October 2008 - Posts

WPF: Allow your users to define their own styles using XAML
27 October 08 11:55 AM | Avi Pilosof | 0 Comments   

An application I’ve been working on has the vague property of “displaying items on the screen”, and a fairly unusual requirement which specifies that users be able to completely define how the items look. Our items are displayed on a timeline and can Read More...

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WPF: Supporting command line arguments and file extensions
27 October 08 11:05 AM | Avi Pilosof | 1 Comments   

Traditionally, handling command-line args in an app has been a simple case of reading arguments from the “int main()” function (or equivalent). In WPF this changes somewhat. The usual setup is that you have your App.xaml.cs, which loads your initial window. Read More...

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You’re asking for the wrong thing.
16 October 08 08:50 AM | Avi Pilosof | 7 Comments   

Just stumbled upon this article by John Dvorak titled “My Windows 7 Wish List”, and I see the same pattern as many of the other fruitless wish list articles. Maybe IHBT … As a user, the user experience (UX) is the only thing that ever matters to you – Read More...

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