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MIX09 - The Gratuitous Graphics Demo
20 March 09 12:43 PM | henryh | 11 Comments   

It hasn't been nearly as long as I thought but it's certainly been a while since I've posted. I helped out with one of the MIX09 keynote demos - the Silverlight 3 "Gratuitous Graphics" demo. Instead of keeping it tied up on my machine, I thought I'd share Read More...

You, too, can own a new PDC USB Hard Drive
25 September 08 10:17 AM | henryh | 1 Comments   

Traditionally, when you first get to the PDC and stop by the registration desk, you get a bag of all kinds of goodies, including a handful of CD's or DVD's that might contain relevant bits for attendees. This year, we're handing out the bits on a 160GB Read More...

Save $200! PDC Early Bird Discounts End on Aug 15
12 August 08 11:28 AM | henryh | 1 Comments   

Just a quick cross-reference: If you register before Aug 15 for the PDC you'll receive $200 off . Register here . Read More...

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1
11 August 08 02:03 PM | henryh | 1 Comments   

Visual Studio and .NET Developers, along with their customers, got a nice treat today with the release of VS 2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1! You can get the laundry list of features and download it here but there's some work that I'm particularly excited about. Read More...

PDC08
23 July 08 11:29 AM | henryh | 1 Comments   

I've participated in several PDC's in the past, mostly as a speaker, but this year I'm helping to do some of the organization. Recently, I've been in a lot of meetings with Mike Swanson , a Technical Evangelist here at Microsoft. Mike is one of the key Read More...

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PDC 2008!
06 December 07 10:17 AM | henryh | 1 Comments   

Save the date! http://msdn.microsoft.com/pdc . Read More...

Yahoo releases Yahoo! Messenger for Vista
06 December 07 08:53 AM | henryh | 1 Comments   

Yahoo just released their Yahoo! Messenger for Vista . I haven't yet installed it but I do know that's its based on WPF. Check out some of the blog postings about it, below. http://eric.burke.name/dotnetmania/2007/12/06/0.05.32 http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/12/06/great-wpf-applications-16-yahoo-messenger-for-windows-vista.aspx Read More...

NET FX 3.5 B2 Released! What's new in WPF?
01 August 07 12:32 PM | henryh | 2 Comments   

Get it here ! The WPF team is very excited about this release because we've been able to follow-up on a handful of issues we heard from you so soon after the release of our V1 in NET FX 3.0. Below, you'd find a quick summary of some of the work that you'll Read More...

.Net Framework Security Update Performance Issues
13 July 07 01:16 PM | henryh | 0 Comments   

Rob Eisenberg recently posted that he was experiencing performance issues related to recent Windows auto updates that he received. The issue was caused by a .NET Framework security update on 7/10 . From the information I have it appears that a significant Read More...

Loading a ComboBox with "Many" Items is Slow
15 June 07 09:27 AM | henryh | 0 Comments   

In the WPF ListBox and ListView, some form of virtualization takes place. The consequence is that loading (either app or the control itself) is faster since less work is done at the get go; additionally, it can help keep working set down. We didn't do Read More...

WPFPerf now available outside of the WPF SDK
05 June 07 01:22 PM | henryh | 1 Comments   

The WPF performance tool WPFPerf is now available as a stand-alone download. Check it out: x86 and x64 ! Read More...

WPF Performance Whitepaper
30 October 06 01:00 PM | henryh | 0 Comments   

Kiran has posted the latest and greatest version of his WPF Performance Whitepaper here . Check it out! Read More...

Tim Cahill on Optimizing 3D collections in WPF
07 September 06 05:05 PM | henryh | 0 Comments   

Tim Cahill, a developer on the WPF Performance Team, posted a great article on optimizing 3D collections in WPF . Check it out! Read More...

.NET 3.0 RC has shipped!
05 September 06 02:06 PM | henryh | 0 Comments   

Check it out: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=19E21845-F5E3-4387-95FF-66788825C1AF&displaylang=en Read More...

WPF Perf: RenderCapability.Tier & DesiredFrameRate
23 August 06 05:32 PM | henryh | 2 Comments   

In this post, I’m going to talk about two key API’s for performance in WPF. These are RenderCapability.Tier and Storyboard.DesiredFrameRate. In this post, I’m going to show: How to leverage RenderCapability.Tier to scale your app up or down. How to use Read More...