Jaime Rodriguez

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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). . Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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... Read More...

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 Read More...