Lake Okoboji is freezing over indefinitely. In an effort to unify all the random stuff I do, I've rolled my WPF blogging under my (vanity) domain. Point your favorites and feed aggregators to work.j832.com . See you on the other side!

Paint.NET ROCKS! I can't imagine ever paying for Photoshop. Now in version 3.0. The killer new feature: MDI. Awesome. Reflector .NET ROCKS! (Via Chris , Via Chris .) Take a look at the PowerPoint deck for full details of v5.0. The killer new feature:...

Check out Rob's blog on instructions for ISP's (or anyone that runs a server) on how to host WPF content (XBaps, XPS docs, etc). If you're a WPF fan, link to this post. T'would be good to build awareness on this topic.

A recent forum post asked how one could build out ItemsControl-like functionality in a custom control. Let me start from the basics. ContentPresenter presents content. If you give it a UIElement (Grid, Button, Border) it will just display it. Easy enough...

Forgot what link brought me here, but I was quite impressed with the analysis. Programmer's Don't Like to Code ...they like problem solving . If programmers liked to code, we’d all be writing in machine language to this day. You can write that stuff all...

In celebration of the availability of the January CTP of VS "Orcas" , I've updated the bag-o-tricks. (Actually, it's because I'm stuck at home, but I wanted an excuse to mention the VS CTP.) Download here: http://j832.com/bagotricks/ Have fun! New: Zap...

It's 1:22 AM. I think I'm getting sick. I'm flying out for California tomorrow. Haven't packed yet. And I'm coding. Some ideas you just have to get working before you can put them down. In no way is this beatiful code. The end-to-end is pretty interesting...

Our holiday gift to you: listening. Tomorrow (Dec 21) 12:30 - 1:30 PM Pacific Time. Details: http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/ Add to Calendar (As always, Tim is much more thorough than I.)

I'm working on an end-of-year letter as web site. (Yeah, I'm a geek. I have way more email addresses for friends than mailing addresses.) Anyway, I've been bought into CSS for a while. The start of my projcet aligned nicely with the shipment of Expression...

I think it was Paul Stovell's article on Validation in WPF that got me started. The article is amazing and has inspired a lot of my thoughts on what to do with binding in v-next. Paul mentioned CSLA . I wasn't familiar. I dug in. Found Rockford Lhotka...

Interacting with 2D on 3D in WPF Holy hotness! Check out details on the WPF3D Blog Check out the Channel9 interview Check out the CodePlex project (and download the toys ) Go build games for your XBOX Too many links. A great write-up on FierceDeveloper...

Mr. Sells does a great job of listing the great features of Vista . (Including some things I don't use enough.) I had fun bringing my laptop back to Iowa for Christmas Thanksgiving. Everyone I showed just sayed said "wow". I'm proud to have shipped code...

Okay, I admit I should have a whole mountain of new and sexy stuff for the RTM release. I've been busy lately. Busy with fun stuff. I'm hoping I'll get to talk about it soon. (Yeah, I'm a huge tease. No, I won't be able to share anything with you even...

I tested the latest rev of the bag-o-tricks on Vista RC1 (which included the .NET Framework 3.0 RC1) with VS 2005 RTM. I just did an install of .NET 3.0 September CTP + Orcas tools ("Cider") September CTP + VS 2005 SP1 Beta on my XP machine at home. All...

The Bag Glad to see people are downloading the RC1 rev of the bag-o-tricks . Thanks for the love . (Always love to hear I have " nice code ".) I've already gone down another level on some of the layout tricks I use to get the animation working with...

As promised , I've updated the bag-o-tricks. Download now . Updates Hex Hex had a few rough edges that I cleaned up. Thanks to fun with MultiDataTrigger, I removed the need for a special "HexButton". I also cleaned up a bunch of stuff that I must...

Bea 's intern this summer (Tomasz) wrote a sweet WPF control: PivotTable. I haven't had a chance to dig into the implementation, but the demo was amazing. Check it out on the WPF Community Site . (Bea also has a cool sample of a Color Picker control....

I've been busy hacking on a bunch of stuff. I have updates in the cue. (Some really cool stuff.) I promise. Give me just a bit longer.

(Thanks to Rob for the pointer .) Check out Matt's blog. I'm speechless. Amazing.

Senator Murray's Seattle Office 30 Aug 12:00 PM Senator Murray needs to know her constituents are paying attention to her upcoming vote on Net Neutrality and expect her to vote the right way. We will deliver thousands of petition signatures from Washington...

Okay, so I've blogged about this before . I think it's super important stuff. Common Cause has some amazing write-ups under the title of "Wolves in Sheep's Clothing". [ Part 1 , Part 2 ] The punch line is pretty simple: telcos creating " Astroturf " to...

Windows Live Writer just went beta. Hot!

KevinButton Robby and I were hanging out at TechEd in Boston. Randomly I say, “Hey, we should put more people in buttons.” Long story short, Robby hacks away on some XAML and gets laughs at my expense during his talk. Back in Redmond, Robby...

Once you get the resources for more than one control in generic.xaml, things can get a bit messy. What one really wants: split up your resources into separate dictionaries for each control. I do this as part of the latest bag-o-tricks . I should...

I'm sure we all love this dialog after a CTP refresh: The issue is that the project types have changed out from under your project. How do you fix it? Well, don't recreate your project from scratch, instead, reload the project. Now remove...