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January 2007 - Posts

Turning the Pages: Great WPF app @ British Library

Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2007 10:59 PM by Leon Brown
This announcement is worth repeating. Take a look at Tim Sneath's post here for a good write up. Then go check it out yourself at the British Library's home page . Always a treat to work for a company with great technology and then see it used for something Read More...
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Nikon RAW Codec for Windows Vista

Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 1:59 AM by Leon Brown
Nice to see this available. http://www.nikonimglib.com/nefcodec/ This will allow the Vista file system to handle the Nikon RAW files gracefully as it would for other formats. From one of our internal mails: If you shoot RAW and plug in a Nikon camera Read More...
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Microsoft Photo Info

Posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 1:01 AM by Leon Brown
A nice little application has been released to allow photographers to work on metadata within their images. Microsoft Photo Info adds more details when you hover over an image, and right-click on the image will let you jump to the application where you Read More...
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Nuxeation UX demos coming

Posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:36 AM by Leon Brown
My friend Dax of nuxeationStudios in India is working on a project on how to build User Experiences in WPF ( teaser here ) using Blend and other bits and pieces of our technology. Dax and I met at IndiMIX'06 in November where he was doing demos using Read More...
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Rain vs. Snow

Posted Wednesday, January 24, 2007 9:42 AM by Leon Brown
This came up on our internal emails. Someone was asking if we could do rain overlays on video like this Flash example here . Here is a WPF/E example with snow . Go check out all of these WPF/E examples by Richard Leggett in the UK. Nice. Read More...
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ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 released

Posted Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:39 AM by Leon Brown
The technology formerly known as "Atlas" is now available as a free download . Information is available here . The addition of this free toolkit is good news. Many developers find the speed of building applications faster using .NET and this framework Read More...
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Links for WPF/E

Posted Monday, January 22, 2007 9:03 AM by Leon Brown
Here is a random selection of links on Expression, mainly WPF/E that I collected after the 4 December announcements. James Clarke's Weblog Great series on 4 December announcements TheWPFBlog Designer at Frog Design Mike Harsh's Blog Mike is a program Read More...
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Expression Learning and Forum!

Posted Monday, January 22, 2007 8:24 AM by Leon Brown
Take a look here: http://www.learnexpression.com/ Five new video tutorials as well as a new forum for users. Currently no one seems to be signed up but hopefully this will get off the ground. Read More...
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Happy New Year: I have a Zune

Posted Saturday, January 06, 2007 12:44 PM by Leon Brown
Welcome to 2007. After a very busy December I am looking forward to 2007 and getting down to work. I have a couple of draft posts on Expression and User Experience I am working on, but thought I'd start my year by bragging that I have a Zune. A nice brown Read More...
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