Nick on Silverlight and WPF

We made a couple changes to how resources (FrameworkElementaryresources) work in the last CTP, they've kind of flown under the radar so I wanted to call them out: FindResource() throws an exception if the resources not found; we introduced a method...

Every now and then, you'll find a windows message that has no WPF equivalent. HwndSource lets you use a WndProc to get window messages; what you may not know is that you can still use the Window class. It's not obvious how to go from a Window to a...

Tyler and I have been working on a white paper about threading for a long time now, figured I should try out the blog's new "attachments" feature and share a draft of it with you so you don't need to wait for the next CTP. One major caveat -- the sample...

Someone on the forums was asking about how to set the mouse cursor programmatically, it reminded me about the different steps WPF uses to decide which cursor to display: 1) When the mouse moves, we query what the cursor should be and set it to that...

As WPF gets closer and closer to shipping, one of the things I spend a lot of my time doing is bug triage -- prioritizing bugs and deciding which to fix. We'd like to fix all bugs, of course, but that's just not reality. There's only so many hours in...