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Redmond Developer: Working with MEF in VB and WPF
Kathleen Dollard has a very good article on that talks about using Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) to allow customers to add their own forms to our Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) app? In this simple example she show
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Great User Experience Example in a Business Application
DNR-TV has a great talk\demo with Billy Hollis on a next generation business applications in WPF and Silverlight. Billy is working with a customer to provide a temp worker to job matching services. So far the application is in WPF, but they
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WPF Composite Application Guidance is Live
A very common pattern for business focused applications is the "Composite Application Pattern". Over the last few months our P&P team has been working with industry leaders and the product teams in Microsoft to develop an sample
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Loving the South African Developer Community
I just got back from South Africa and I am happy to report that the .NET Developer community is very strong there. User's Group Meetings in in Johannesburg and Cape Town User group meeting in Johannesburg - thanks for setting this
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Silverlight Roles, Profile and Authentication Example Updated for Silverlight Beta2 Now with Visual State Manager (VSM) goodness!
I am very excited about Silverlight Beta2 shipping recently ... I took a few minutes to update my recent sample " Accessing the ASP.NET Authentication, Profile and Role Service in Silverlight " post to Beta2. While I was at it, I
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.NET Framework Client Profile
As I mentioned a few days ago , with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta we are taking some MAJOR steps toward making it easier for customers to acquire the .NET Framework. One of the ways we have done that is creating a client profile of the .NET Framework that
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Reusable WPF Transitions Project is live!
Jared Bienz has been working on getting some cool WPF transitions code posted to codeplex. The project, Transitionals , is now live! Transitionals is a framework for building and using WPF transitions which provide an easy way to switch between
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Single source code base for Silverlight and WPF solutions
At Mix08 , several people asked me about the possibility of creating a single source base for both WPF and Silverlight. The scenario folks had in mind was to provide a reach solution with Silverlight that hits *ALL* possible users while also offering
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Silverlight and WPF Control Developer Huddle at Mix08
I just ran into Ted Glaza from Ajax Control toolkit and Silverlight Controls fame and he is getting some of the control developers together (3rd parties, Microsoft as well as in house) to talk about building controls for WPF and Silverlight.
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Cool new WPF application: Cayra Mindmapping tool Free!
Check out this cool new new mind mapping tool that uses some of the great layout and graphics capabilities of WPF. http://cayra.net/ Here is a mindmap of Mix I created to test it out.. Fun stuff!
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WPF Coming into the mainstream with excellent component vendor support
I love the ecosystem around Microsoft technology... The 3rd party component vendors add some much jazz and productivity to our platforms. I recently saw a list of the component vendors already shipping products for WPF and I couldn't help but share it.
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.NET Framework 3.5 Namespace poster Updated
A while back I blogged about the .NET Framework 3.5 Namespace poster... We made a few tweaks and updated it, including making it available in more formats. Download Links: Full XPS Split XPS PDF Tiled PDF Enjoy!
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User Experience in the Enterprise: Lawson's flash ship manufacturing and distribution application
Well, we are not even out of January yet and there is at least a hint of one of my 2008 prediction coming true . Frog Design is helping Lawson get User Experience to Reach the Enterprise. Check out the details on the case study and read more about how
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Software Development Predictions for 2008
Happy New Year! Not too long ago, I was asked for my predictions for the IT-Technology in 2008... You can find the full article here, but I thought I'd include my thoughts on my blog. Where's i-Technology Headed in 2008? I'd love to hear your thoughts
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VS 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 RTM
We made it, just in time for your turkey-day fun! You can go out and download VS 2008 Express (for FREE) right now and .NET Framework 3.5 ... Here is just a few things I love about this release... Please add your own: 1. VS 2008 fully supports multi-targeting
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Books by Brad Abrams
[2005] Framework Design Guidelines (First Edition)
[2005] .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 2
[2004] .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 1
[2004] Base Class Library Reference Poster
[2002] Programming in the .NET Environment
[2008] Framework Design Guidelines (second edition)
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