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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 Read More...
Posted 02 April 09 10:21 by BradA | 5 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 07 July 08 08:00 by BradA | 17 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 03 July 08 06:20 by BradA | 6 Comments   
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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 Read More...
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 Read More...
Posted 08 June 08 08:23 by BradA | 17 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 21 May 08 09:47 by BradA | 16 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 29 April 08 12:33 by BradA | 2 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 11 March 08 01:28 by BradA | 11 Comments   
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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.  Read More...
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! Read More...
Posted 09 February 08 08:44 by BradA | 8 Comments   
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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. Read More...
Posted 23 January 08 09:06 by BradA | 21 Comments   
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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! Read More...
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 Read More...
Posted 11 January 08 09:34 by BradA | 1 Comments   
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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 Read More...
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 Read More...
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