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Friday, July 31, 2009 11:56 AM

All in One WPF Demo – Part 2 – Enter VS 2010

Learning XAML: Paving the road to WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) and Silverlight Summary This entry is a continuation of the following blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/brunoterkaly/archive/2009/07/09/all-in-one-wpf-demo.aspx Full source Code See the
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Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:25 AM

How to: Trigger an Animation When Data Changes

Learning XAML: This example shows how to use a DataTrigger, a BeginStoryboard action, and a Storyboard to animate a property when bound data meets a specified condition. This is a fun, easy blog entry. Yes, you can use the code for VS 2008. Just create
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009 9:48 AM

Migrating From Visual Basic 6 and earlier

I started coding with Visual Basic 3 in 1991. I ended up teaching it all over Asia,, Latin America, Canada, and the US. Language wise I’m more about C# and C++, but I still code VBScript once in a while. It is one of the biggest success stories in computer
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Monday, July 27, 2009 8:05 PM

Juval Lowy – Learning WCF – This October in Silicon Valley – Don’t miss it !

A Unique WCF Learning Opportunity I took Juval’s Master Architect class. Juval’s understanding of WCF is world renown. He’s worked directly with the product teams at Microsoft. Master WCF in five intense days with Microsoft Regional Director Juval Lowy
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Sunday, July 26, 2009 11:29 PM

Internet Explorer 8 – Accelerators

Learning about accelerators – An IE8 Feature Internet Explorer & Accelerators Windows Internet Explorer 8 (abbreviated IE8) was March 19, 2009 for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Both 32-bit and 64-bit builds
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 10:25 PM

.NET Framework 4.0, Visual Studio 2010, WCF Enhancements

Microsoft believes that declarative programming is the best route to take for specific types of applications. One advantage of declarative programming is that you can indicate what you would like to do, but not how to do it. Specifying the “how” is where
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 7:52 PM

Event Tracing – Painful but worth it

Why bother with something painful? What is event tracing and why is it worth my time to work with it? Trace events describe the current state of an application or operation for the purpose of debugging or performance tuning. Some Good Reasons to use Event
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 7:10 PM

C# 4.0 – Dynamic Language Runtime

Dynamic languages are a class of high-level programming languages that execute at runtime many common behaviors that other languages might perform during compilation, if at all. Most of you probably spend most of your time in static languages. What are
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 12:32 PM

Visual Studio 2010: Covariance and Contravariance - In search of better examples…

This took me some time to understand even simple examples of covariance and contravariance. If you have great samples, please let me post them. Email me at bterkaly@microsoft.com (Bruno Terkaly). Don’t forget to grab the code above. Here is what I’m running.
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 9:01 AM

Silverlight Links

Silverlight Community Gallery http://silverlight.net/community/communitygallery.aspx SampleBrowser for Silverlight http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/Silverlight/SampleBrowser HardRock Deep Zoom http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/ Download Deep Zoom Composer
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 4:19 PM

Visual Studio 2010: Delegates, Generic IEnumerable

This is kind of a re-blog. My goal is to have a more specific blog than before. Generic Delegates Let’s warm up with some generic delegates to start getting used to some of the code. Lines 23 to 26 we build a collection of delegate functions that we later
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 10:07 PM

Visual Studio 2010: Lambdas may be theoretically based in Calculus, but they are easy and useful

Many of us just spent a decade or so with languages designed from the ground up as object oriented languages using dynamic dispatch, with syntax similar to C++. The notion of a Lambda Expression is new. Lambdas sometimes seem a little syntactically sugary,
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:02 PM

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit - May Preview

I would also like to talk about the content in this training kit. For example, I’d like to talk about concurrency. There are various approaches to writing concurrent code. We will use the training kit to explore these various options. Method 1 - Ordinary
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Monday, July 20, 2009 8:30 PM

Fast Forward: Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 – Concurrent Programming

This blog entry is all about Visual Studio 2010 and introduces some startup code to play with WPF and the Task Parallel Library. Here is a rough outline about what this blog entry: You will learn about: (1) How to install Visual Studio 2010 and where
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Monday, July 20, 2009 8:23 PM

Concurrency – A 5 Minute Tour

This some material just to get started about why concurrency is important. Just a quick slide deck that talks about the free lunch that is over. Let’s start with this whitepaper. WhitePaper: ManyCore Shift http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=633F9F08-AAD9-46C4-8CAE-B204472838E1&displaylang=en
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Thursday, July 16, 2009 6:54 PM

WPF & XAML – ListBoxes with a Grouping Capability

This tutorial is about learning: <ItemsControl.GroupStyle> It is now possible to have a listbox with “grouping” capabilities. The following example show an ItemsControl that is bound to an XmlDataProvider and the code-behind content that contains
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Friday, July 10, 2009 3:26 PM

Silverlight 3 Launch

I am sitting at the Hotel Intercontinental in San Francisco, where I’m witnessing the launch of Silverlight 3. Developers want one thing – to create interfaces that customers care about. Interactive technologies are evolving quickly. Development and design
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Thursday, July 09, 2009 9:08 PM

All in One WPF Demo

This is the demo we want to build up. It leverages all the awesome XAML and WPF features in one comprehensive demo. The data models represented in this App This blog will take a few days to build out. Once we are done, you will be in good shape to apply
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Thursday, July 09, 2009 1:53 PM

Bruno’s Drinking From A Firehose Series: XAML & Binding – Part 02

<Window x:Class= "WpfApplication1.Window1" xmlns= "http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x= "http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" Title= "Learning about binding..." Width= "500" Height= "260" > <StackPanel
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009 5:32 PM

Is Silverlight Ready for the Enterprise?

QUESTION: Describe the data handling capabilities of Silverlight especially in handling complex data sets that involve hundreds of rows of data from dozens of tables with thousands of columns involved. This question implies two concerns: (1) How do I
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009 5:25 PM

Thrive Campaign

The Thrive resources are here to help developers at a challenging time. I've gone through the site and looked at materials. Of course it can't be all things to all people, but it has some excellent and useful resources. It is all about making you more
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009 5:20 PM

Charles Petzold – Always the Best Examples

Article Quote of Interest Charles Petzold writes brilliant software. He's an icon – well, not literally – in the MS Developer world. His seminal book, Programming Windows, 1st edition (Microsoft Press, 1988; 852 pages), sets the bar for what a great developer
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Monday, July 06, 2009 10:15 PM

Silverlight Worldwide Live Broadcast

Tomorrow, July 7 th , 10AM PT, 1PM ET –Michael Jackson's memorial is being broadcast in live HD from the Staples Center in Los Angeles using IIS Smooth Streaming and Silverlight. See it here. http://inmusic.ca/news_and_features/Michael_Jackson .
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Thursday, July 02, 2009 12:22 PM

Awesome learning opportunity this Wednesday

$125 is a steal to learn Silverlight with Hands-On - Wednesday, July 08, 2009 I am going to be here and I'm really looking forward to it. This a deep discount for hands on training in Silverlight. It is at Microsoft, San Francisco, heart of the financial
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