Ages ago I worked on a Microsoft project called Mako – a project whose technologies, philosophies, team members would would go on to form the Forefront Client Security product. I owned the User Experience team in Mako . So keep it in mind that I and my...

  If you working with URLS – either with existing APIs or creating your own – it’s with it to check out this diagram by Tantek Çelik. I’ve wirtten up a few comments about it. Definitely one of the best technical diagrams I’ve seen lately. It represents...

It’s a monthly podcast by Larry Hastings and the first episode has been published. I listened to that first episode yesterday and was pleasantly surprised. I enjoyed the news + discussion format (which in the first episode includes Guido, FYI). Definitely...

A screencast showing how to make pages that are hidden in a document. Also discover a few tips for using pages in general.  

In Part 4 I created a separate C# project and imported it. Things were working fine except for Intellisense was not available. Here is a screenshot showing the simplified code and Intellisense *not” happening after I type import VisUtil and type “VisUtil...

Searching for “IronPython” on YouTube and sorting by “Upload date” revealed this gem. Frankly it’s the most interesting “IronPython” video out there ;-)  

The last blog post was a peek ahead. But we need to go backwards a bit because if we continue on that path in a naïve way, what you are going to see is that to fully exploit capabilities of Visio via IronPython is going pose some challenges: First, we...

This screencast will give you a peek at where I am headed with these blog posts: the use of IronPython and Visio to create (nice-looking) Infographics The previous posts (1, 2) were about getting started with the Python Tools for Visual Studio. Now we...

In the Part 1 we explored creating a simple project , now we will work with Visio interactively using the IronPython Interactive shell that is part of Python Tools for Visio Studio 2010 . Launch Visual Studio and Under Tools > Python Tools click on...