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Friday, October 31, 2008 3:11 PM

WPF Performance issues? Then maybe this tool can help…

I am seeing more interest in building richer UX in WPF of late which is great. Since WPF is very powerful and very flexible, we are beginning to see developers hit UX performance issues as they build increasingly rich and exciting UI. The good news is
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Friday, October 24, 2008 12:12 PM

ZoomIt from Sysinternals

I have been using ZoomIt during my recent spate of MSDN events to magnify and draw on the screen. It works great – and many of you have dropped me an email asking what tool I have been using. Enjoy!
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Monday, September 29, 2008 4:19 PM

Fiddler and ADO.NET Data Services

It was my colleague MikeT who put me on to Fiddler a while back and it has proven to be really useful for my work with Data Services. By chance I just came across this example in which Shawn uses Fiddler to look at performance issues. At which point I
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Monday, September 29, 2008 4:01 PM

Four tools that have managed to stay on my machine into October

I have just finished my regular clean out of tools that I have installed and which have not passed the “Am I still using it 1 month on?” test. The four that remain are: PPTFlex – which gives you a completely different paradigm for delivering a presentation
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008 5:39 PM

.NET Reflector acquired by Red Gate

In simple terms, .NET Reflector is… a must have. It was developer by Lutz Roeder back in 2000 before he went on to join Microsoft. Red Gate have announced that they have acquired it and the good news is a free version will continue to be available (Thanks
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Friday, August 08, 2008 9:29 AM

LINQ Overview concept map #2

Just started the day with a swift play with my original concept map .
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 5:14 PM

Two tools I MUST find some time to try – Typemock and NDepend

I have had my eye on two tools for sometime. Both tools look extremely useful. Both tools have a very different focus. Both tools look hot! Regrettably – both tools continue to be ignored while I spend time getting myself up to speed on the basics :-(
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Friday, July 25, 2008 2:46 PM

How come nobody ever told me about LINQPad?

I need to know so much more about LINQ than I currently do. What I wanted was a “Query Analyser” for LINQ – rather than keep writing code inside Visual Studio. I can’t tell you how excited I was when I discovered LINQPad .  It is written by Joseph
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 1:31 AM

Converting from C# to Visual Basic .NET

I have been playing with tools to convert C# over to Visual Basic - given how many samples only exist as C# :-(. I posted a detailed list + recommendation over on Goto 100 .
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Friday, July 18, 2008 10:13 AM

Vista and CHM issues

Every so often I open a CHM and I get the table of contents but no actual contents. I have looked before for the answer, found it, remembered it for a few weeks – then forgotten all about it again. Maybe if I actually write it down, I won’t forget again
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Monday, July 14, 2008 10:05 AM

Code Snippets - friend or foe?

This is really a thinly disguised test of zoho polls - but also an interesting topic to me as I get back into development. Code Snippets in Visual Studio 2008  have reached a level where they are very useful to "get the job done". However 
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Sunday, July 13, 2008 10:13 PM

Just reclaimed 17GB of disk space without uninstalling or deleting a single file!!!

My notebook was down to the last 800MB of disk space. Amazingly I just claimed back 17GB through Windows Vista Disk Cleanup! Wow! The big wins were: It turned off Hibernate functionality for me - which I never used (3.4GB) It got rid of a bunch of dmp
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 7:16 PM

How big is big enough?

As I get back into development I am struck by a simple truth - two monitors makes you a much more productive developer than one. On the basis of that I have unhooked my monitor from my games machine and stuck it in the back of my notebook (which is spec'd
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 8:50 AM

Where is the WPF Datagrid control?

WPF is an awesome technology - but it has the odd "beauty spot". One example is the absence of a DataGrid control. WPF 3.0 shipped in Nov 2006 without a DataGrid WPF 3.5 shipped in Nov 2007, alas again without a DataGrid WPF 3.5 SP1 will ship
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Friday, May 30, 2008 9:49 AM

Some bits and bobs - Silverlight, Hello World, Wallpaper

Just a few randoms which I have come across over the last few weeks while heads down on other stuff. Enjoy! An unexpected (by me anyway) Silverlight fan - TIBCO "This is our strategic direction for rich Internet applications when it comes to our
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