In my recent project I had had the chance to use T4 (text template transformation toolkit) and learned to like it. While trying to come up with ideas for demonstrating in-product guidance I discovered that it is fairly easy to let Visual Studio generate...

If you spend some time to understand LINQ then you will probably like this explanation what MapReduce does. DryadLINQ is a programming environment that does automatic parallelization and is based on LINQ. To describe the power of the framework the Microsoft...

I really like Data Binding in WPF. Combined with the separation of Behavior and Appearance it is incredible powerful. But from time to time you want to implement your own collection class and that poses a slight challenge because you need implement to...

Hi, I had the pleasure to present at a Developer Conference in Denver, CO last Thursday. It is coined 'the Big Event', and it deserves it's name, not necessarily in terms of numbers (my guess iss 300+ attendees) but how it was organized: down-to-earth...

Hi, I am on my way returning from ReMIX 07 Boston. http://www.remix07boston.com/ It has been a long time since I presented in public. But this was definitly a conference worht going to. Great mix of content and it seemd that the attendees like...

A while ago I played around with DataBinding an tried to implement a Sudoku Game similar to Sudoku in the WPF tutorial http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2006/11/06/999502.aspx   One thing that is not in that game is, that some People (including...

Hi, I recently had the chance to spend quite some time to familiarize myself with WPF. But I do not have endless time (who has?). And I will probably not spend more than a few hours a month programming with WPF. I thought it might be a worthwhile exercise...