September 2006 - Posts

• What happened to the menu bars?

  There's an interesting post on the shell blog called What happened to the menu bars? I find the trend a bit disturbing, not so much because I miss the menu bars, but because of the lack of consistency. I realize that applications need to innovate with Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 20, 2006 5:14 PM by dancre | 2 Comments

• DM-V-VM part 8: View Models

  Ok, time to wrap this up :-) Now, we'll finally build what I'm calling a view model for managing a portfolio of stocks (building on the StockModel example from previous posts). A view model is a class that will be used as the DataContext for a data template Read More... Posted Sunday, September 17, 2006 8:01 PM by dancre | 6 Comments Filed under: DM-V-VM Attachment(s): ModelSample.zip

• DM-V-VM part 7: Encapsulating commands

  In part 5 , I talked about commands and how they are used for behavior. Now, I want to talk about a better way to encapsulate them. First, I'll create a CommandModel class that encapsulates the RoutedCommand and the enabled/execute code. This is all pretty Read More... Posted Friday, September 15, 2006 8:56 AM by dancre | 8 Comments Filed under: DM-V-VM

• Thoughts on iTunes 7

  They've done some cool stuff in iTunes 7. I hope someone comes out with a subscription video service before long. I much prefer the subscription model for music. The new 3D album art is nice looking (not unlike Max's mantle view!). I find it is pretty Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 13, 2006 8:28 AM by dancre | 5 Comments

• Max feedback on TechCrunch

  There's a TechCrunch article on Max's RSS reading here . I'm glad to see people like it. While the newspaper-like view isn't perfect for all feeds, I think it works really well. One piece of feedback that was in the comments is that it doens't tie into Read More... Posted Saturday, September 09, 2006 8:13 PM by dancre | 0 Comments Filed under: Max

• A new version of Max is live!

  You can now download a new version of Microsoft Max ! It's on .Net Framework 3.0 RC1. We're not on some ancient WinFx version this time! Unfortunately, Vista isn't officially supported at this time. There was a lot of work under the hood to improve scalability Read More... Posted Friday, September 08, 2006 4:16 PM by dancre | 1 Comments Filed under: Max

• Windows Marketplace: Pretty cool!

  Windows Live Marketplace looks like a cool way to find Windows software. Give it a try! Link to Windows Marketplace: Software & hardware for the Windows operating system Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 06, 2006 9:59 PM by dancre | 1 Comments

• Console is a nice cmd.exe replacement!

  Long ago I complained about cmd.exe. At the time, I tried out some of the replacements and didn't find anything I liked. But, I just tried out a Console 2.0 beta, and I love it! The way it hosts cmd.exe is necessarily a bit of a hack, but they pull it Read More... Posted Saturday, September 02, 2006 8:03 AM by dancre | 2 Comments Filed under: Utilities