Jim talks about the importance of componentization, why Windows XP SP2 was a service pack, and other thoughts on things that have been going on during the development of Windows Vista. Check out the first part of the interview here . One bit that I...

In a post a few months ago, I included a sample that showed how to use an adorner to display a 'preview' during a drag/drop operation. http://blogs.msdn.com/marcelolr/archive/2006/03/03/543301.aspx And yet... dire news came in - someone was having...

In case you have never seen this page before, you can find Segey's page on Microsoft Research at http://research.microsoft.com/~melnik/ . Here you will find some papers on subjects that are near and dear to what ADO.NET Entities is doing.

This is fresh off the press - I've recently accepted a new challenge in the group working on ADO.NET Entities. Oooohhh... This is going to be a lot of fun! If there is something that personally thrills me, that's working on improving developer productivity...

In my last post I introduced a TextBoxBaseTraceListener class that looked like this. public class TextBoxBaseTraceListener : System.Diagnostics.TraceListener { public TextBoxBaseTraceListener( System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.TextBoxBase control...

In the past ( Virtualizing a Data Object ), I've talked about virtualizing a data object on the clipboard or in a drag-drop operation by using a Stream subclass. I have recently received some questions about this and I wanted to clarify this a bit (and...

Every now and then, I get a request for putting all the sample code together for the drag and drop walk-through... Well, Lester has done exactly that at http://blogs.msdn.com/llobo/archive/2006/04/11/573560.aspx , so just click over and enjoy! This...

Annotations are very, very cool. I think the support for documents in WPF rocks, and annotations is a natural extension of that. The platform has pretty high-level support for user annotations. But hey, don't take my word for it - say hello to Derek...

Recently I got some email about how some of the VB.Net code I posted on the drag/drop series should translate to C#, specifically about these fragments. If (e.AllowedEffects And DragDropEffects.Copy) = 0 AndAlso _ (e.AllowedEffects And DragDropEffects...

There aren't as many online resources about testing as there are for development, that's for sure. And that just makes it all the more special when you run into a website you didn't know about before and it turns out to have pretty good test-related content...

Dragging UIElements around is all good n' nice, but applications are often interested in the data itself more than in any particular representation we might have for it. Declaring our data For this sample, we will simply embed XML in an XmlDataProvider...

It's about time I linked to Beatriz' blog. There is just so much goodness on it. http://www.beacosta.com/ In particular, you might want to brush up on template, hierarchical data structures, and other fun stuff - we'll be dipping our toes in this...

Using a DataObject I've blogged about data objects in the past ( here and here for example). You can use them for clipboard and drag/drop operations between applications. In this installment, we're going to switch over to using a DataObject, and will...

Senkwe has posted a bit of code over here with a creative way to achieve a similar effect to the recent drag/drop post , using custom cursors and a BmpBitmapEncoder. Check it out. http://www.schanda.co.za/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=04b1e07d-1dc7-4cb8...

Why adorners? In the last sample, I showed how to allow the users to drag and drop shapes in a Canvas, and how to create a preview effect for the operation. One problem with this code is that it only works on Canvas panels. In this post, we'll look...

This is the first in a series of post exploring that beloved UI gesture: dragging and dropping things around. In this first post, I'll take a look at the simplest, most striaghtforward approach: adding a bunch of event handlers to your window and updating...

It's been a while since my last post, but I've been busy with a new charter: ensure that Windows Presentation Foundation is a stable platform for great apps. It's interesting that stability means different things to different people - you'd think that...

I'm sure everyone has blogged about this already, but this is so exciting I can't help myself. I loved the 'discounting [...] to free' bit. Spread the word. Let your loved ones know. Programming is coming to town.

If you read text (hehe), you owe it to yourself to take a look at some of the things that font designers need to consider when doing their job. Ah, beautiful, beautiful hinting ... the video is definitely worth watching.

This is going to be a long post, so get yourself some coffee or your development beverage of choice before you start. This is something that was brought up during the PDC, and so I'm following up with one of the solutions suggested. The problem is...

We loooves the community. The MSDN forum at http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=119 is a great place to ask questions and search / get answers, with a bunch of features that make the experience much niftier than regular newsgroups...

One of the features that impressed PDC attendees was the built-in spell checker in Windows Presentation Foundation. Activating it is just as simple as setting the IsSpellCheckEnabled property to true on a TextBox or RichTextBox control. <DockPanel...

The PDC has come and gone, and good time was had by all. The atmosphere was super-charged, there was a lot of excitement about all that's coming, and a lot of cool technology was available. For those of you interested in a crash course in Windows Presentation...

Will catch a flight pretty early in the morning... Zzzz.... Lots of great people to meet, lots of good technology to show off... I hope I'll even find the time to catch some of Michael 's thoughts in the BOFs he submitted. This posting is provided...

High-level languages and declarative models make it less obvious what performance costs come with their usage. For example in SQL, it's hard to even make an educated guess without knowing about the indexes available to the DBMS, much less considering...