Adrian Mascarenhas' blog

This a well known phrase and I have heard so many times at so many different places. But I got to experience it in a special way this week. As you know, I have been part of a product team known as Blend for nearly 4 years now and we have always been making...

Disclaimer - This is not a professional tool to enhance your presentation experience as the title of the blog post implies. It is merely a couple of hours worth of effort that I and a colleague of mine spent using our tool as our customers would use....

I have been using only Vista for a while now as my primary OS. I have it on my work laptop and desktop. Also, I do all my coding on Vista. So far, I have to say, I really like it. It has not crashed, the side bar is really cool (especially the stock ticker...

Last week, I actively engaged in answering newsgroups posts for Blend. Here are some features not supported for authroing in V1. However, if you create it manually by editing xaml yourself and then load the project in Blend, Blend should be able to handle...

These last couple of weeks, I have been working on a project that led me to think about the risks of code duplication and when would be a good time to get rid of it. Make no mistake, I completely agree that duplicating code of any sort and any extent...