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December 2007 - Posts

Thursday, December 20, 2007 10:56 PM

dr. wpf rocks..

Today, Karsten mentioned Dr. WPF .... I am embarrassed to admit I did not know about this phenomenon.. but I just spend the last two hours looking at his/her blog ... not only is it full of WPF goodies but also funny ... Dr. WPF, thanks for being so generous
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 4:05 PM

too much System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComException ?? :(

Lately, I have been seeing System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException quite often when I launch Visual Studio 2008 to work on Silverlight projects.. Here is what I know causes the error.. Error happens when I have wrong templates installed (e.g. running
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 1:38 AM

WPF in Line of business applications ( aka "WPF DID GO to work")

Does WPF make sense in LOB?? Absolutely.. In this series I will tackle 1) Evidence from many early WPF adopters that have succeeded in Line of Business 2) a high level summary of the common trends or reasons for companies to adopt and 3) some of my advise on who should adopt.. WPF is not for every body (yet). .
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Monday, December 17, 2007 5:10 PM

Expression Media Encoder video player template debug code posted...

Creating a Silverlight 1.0 video player using Expression encoder is incredibly easy ( 3 clicks and done).. Debugging it or tweaking it was not as easy... Until now.. Jim Thill posted the debug ( read:uncrunched, unoptimized ) version of the media encoder
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 10:15 PM

Lotsa tools goodies released recently...

Lots of tools released recently.. here are my lessons learned after not reading the manual :( Expression Blend 2.0 December CTP was released last week .. I posted on Blend 2.0 before because the last CTP was full of new great features.. As far as I have
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Friday, December 07, 2007 12:40 PM

"The New iteration" a paper on designer/developer collaboration using XAML...

Karl (of mole fame) emails me about "The new iteration" article that Karsten and I wrote a while ago... The paper attempts to do a lot in a few pages: Introduce XAML ( in the context of HTML, SVG and the likes) for those not familiar with WPF. Introduce
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007 11:48 PM

reusing animations in Silverlight 1.0

I have seen a few people create lots of animations to animate different objects instead of reusing existing storyboards.. When asked why they did that, they explain "I tried to reuse it but I got an "AG_E_RUNTIME_SETVALUE" when setting the property...
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Saturday, December 01, 2007 11:13 PM

world aids day is today...

Most of the time I live in a 'shoe box' not knowing what is going on outside of my family and work; today is one of these days: I totally missed World AIDS Day concert . Beyond the concert, to me the day is a reminder of AIDS realities: There are millions
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