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Jim Galasyn's Learning Curve
Cool XBAPs from Japan
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over 6 years ago
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WeatherNews Global Network Be sure click on the "World's Clouds" button. Warner Mycal Cinemas
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ITN's news viewer launched
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over 6 years ago
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Here's a pretty cool news viewer built with WPF: ITN Hub Works on XP and Vista. There's a neat gadget for Vista. Deployed with ClickOnce!
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WPF and Cider Wikis are available
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over 6 years ago
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The WPF and Cider wikis are now active at the Channel9 site. Note that these are distinct from the MSDN Wiki. Enjoy these new nodes in the ecosystem.
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Orcas January CTP is posted
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over 6 years ago
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A new CTP of Visual Studio Codename "Orcas" is now posted. It has lots of new goodness. Here are just a few of the cool new features. ClickOnce improvements This CTP delivers ClickOnce improvements for the deployment of Windows Presentation Foundation...
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SlideShow control: Loading files off-thread
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over 6 years ago
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I'm building a little app I call "MediaBarrage," which displays rapid-fire images of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs and associated artwork. In the background, behind a bunch of bewildering animation, I have a slide show which displays all the images in a directory...
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Windows Home Server announced
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over 6 years ago
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I had no idea this was in the works, but it looks like Microsoft will be offering a solution for mass storage of home media, called Windows Home Server. The design concepts sure look pretty cool, but unfortunately I can't post any here. You can watch...
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MSDN Wiki comes to the Windows SDK docs
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over 6 years ago
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I'm happy to report that the excellent MSDN Wiki is now available for the Windows SDK docs. MSDN Wiki is the brainchild of the brilliant and beautiful Molly Bostic. Mad props to Molly. To participate, just find the Community Content section at the bottom...
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Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 is posted
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over 7 years ago
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From the blurb: New processor support (e.g., Core Duo) for code generation and profiling Performance and scale improvements in Team Foundation Server Team Foundation Server integration with Excel 2007 and Project 2007 Tool support for occasionally connected...
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2D on 3D: The new hotness
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over 7 years ago
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The WPF3D team have delivered one of the coolest features yet: Fully interactive 2D controls and content rendered in your 3D scene. Interacting with 2D on 3D in WPF Here's a taste of what's possible: Interactive 2D content rendered on a 3D object. This...
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RIP MDX 2.0
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over 7 years ago
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I have a side project in which I implement a model of load-propagation through a structure. Then I use a genetic algorithm to find structures which are stable and which satisfy other criteria. It's too involved to discuss here, but here's a screen shot...
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Visual Studio 2005 SDK 4.0 (December CTP) is available
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over 7 years ago
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I'm happy to report that the December CTP of the VS SDK is now available: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1005241&SiteID=1 Have fun writing plugins for VS. Of course, you have to be a member of the elite VSIP club to...
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Expression Blend Beta (formerly "Sparkle") is available for download
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over 7 years ago
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I'm pleased to report that the public beta of Expression Blend, formerly known as "Sparkle" and "Expression Interactive Designer," is posted: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=EE6B5E7E-E1E8-4787-BF18-03C2E938A397&displaylang...
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Sparkle Public Beta coming soon...
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over 7 years ago
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A little birdie just now told me that the Public Beta of Sparkle will be posted very, very soon. So keep your eyes open and be ready to download.
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Fidalgo November CTP posted
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over 7 years ago
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Well, we called it the "October CTP" last week, but it's the "November CTP" now. Here it is, the last Fidalgo package that is deployed separately from Orcas: Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF), November 2006 CTP ...
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Windows SDK has been released to web
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over 7 years ago
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I'm pleased to report that the Windows SDK for Windows Vista has been released to web. On the Download Center: ISO Install Web Install Please note that the Windows SDK for Windows Vista includes support for .NET Framework 3.0 and can be used...
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Orcas October CTP is posted
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over 7 years ago
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I'm pleased to report that the October CTP of Orcas is publicly available. Enjoy: Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" - October Community Technology Preview (CTP)
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October CTP and the last build of Fidalgo
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over 7 years ago
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The October CTP is ready and will soon be posted. When Vista RTMs in November, the final rev of .NET Framework 3.0 will be released, and the final Fidalgo CTP with Cider will go out with it. This will be the final release of Fidalgo, aka the "WinFX...
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Scott Berry: Windows Forms/WPF Interop Gotchas
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over 7 years ago
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If you're doing anything with Windows Forms and WPF interop, be sure to check out Scott Berry's post: Gotchas For Working With Windows Forms/WPF Interop Lots of good tips.
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RC1 Windows Vista SDK docs are now online
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over 7 years ago
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Check out the Windows SDK RC1 docs online: http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/default.aspx You'll find my Windows Forms/WPF interop (aka "Crossbow runtime") docs under the "Migration and Interoperability" node: http://windowssdk...
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The WPF/XAML Conversion Tool Contest
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over 7 years ago
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Head on over to Michael Swanson's blog to check out the new contest: ...build a freely-available tool that converts from an existing 2D or 3D graphics format to WPF/XAML. You'll have until Friday, October 27th, 2006 to build and submit your application...
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New white paper on extending the Windows Forms Designer
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over 7 years ago
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My new white paper, "Creating a Design Surface Extender Framework for Windows Forms 2.0" is posted . This paper shows how to use the .NET Framework 2.0 BehaviorService to extend the appearance and behavior of controls in the Windows Forms Designer...
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A System-monitoring Application
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over 7 years ago
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There's an old tool I've had on my desktop for many years. It was originally called NetMedic, and I think I paid $50 for it back in, oh, about 1997. At some point it was sold, rebranded as VitalAgentIT and given away for free. Then it was built into some...
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Mike Localizes
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over 7 years ago
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Check out Mike Henderlight's new post, "Localizing a Hybrid Application". http://blogs.msdn.com/mhendersblog/archive/2006/03/30/565040.aspx Very helpful, gonna crib this for a topic in the upcoming Vista Beta2 docs.
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Manually Creating a WPF Project Using Visual Studio
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over 7 years ago
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It occurred to me recently that we haven't documented how to create a WPF project without the Fidalgo project templates. Since most of you probably don't have Fidalgo (aka, "Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for WinFX") installed, it might be rather difficult...
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This is just too cool: WPF/E at Mix '06
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over 7 years ago
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Last year, the talented and beautiful Mike Harsh left our illustrious Client team for the WPF/E team. I'm happy to report that what he's working on is very cool: http://blogs.msdn.com/mharsh/archive/2006/03/23/559106.aspx WPF/E Clock (in FireFox...
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