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Monday, May 12, 2008 10:55 AM
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta is posted
Get it here . Discuss amongst yourselves at the forum . Don't miss Guy Burstein's guided tour . Here's the official word: Visual Studio 2008 With Visual Studio 2008, developers and development organizations have the tools that enable them to be more productive,
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 4:21 PM
Using WriteableBitmap to Display a Procedural Texture
A long time ago, back in the Java days, I wrote some code to simulate a particular kind of autocatalytic chemical reaction. A chaos theory researcher named Vladimir Gontar was doing some interesting work, adapting cellular automata to more closely
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 2:24 PM
Using the WPF Designer: Guidance for Windows Forms Developers
If you're a WinForms dev, and you'd like to know how to implement your favorite features in WPF, take note: Our new topic, The WPF Designer for Windows Forms Developers , gives you a detailed mapping of WinForms features to WPF Designer features. No more
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:28 AM
Silverlight 1.0 on Microsoft Update and WSUS
Silverlight 1.0 is now available to WSUS administrators for enterprise deployments as well as to Microsoft Update consumers. IT administrators, you now have the ability to deploy Silverlight across your enterprise using the standard deployment tools you
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Monday, January 14, 2008 10:48 AM
Silverlight Fire Starter video site at MIX University
We get a lot of requests for training on Silverlight, and now there's a great new option: the Silverlight Fire Starter course content is now available online. Five hours of high-quality training material from MIX University The content is, of course,
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:27 AM
Mobiform's VantagePoint WPF Controls released
Mobiform has released v1 of their neat VantagePoint WPF Controls suite. View the Demo , which is a live xbap -- I was running it in Firefox this morning! Mobiform's Variable Gauge control
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Monday, November 26, 2007 8:34 AM
WPF Designer docs are posted
The MSDN library online has been refreshed, and you can find all the new documentation for the WPF Designer for Visual Studio (formerly known as "Cider") here . You might want to start with the overview topic, or if you want to start autoring your own
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Monday, October 29, 2007 8:25 PM
Troubleshooting WPF Designer load failures
Now that people have been kicking the tires of the WPF Designer for Visual Studio 2008 (aka "Cider"), we're starting to see a lot of questions about why perfectly good WPF code doesn't load in the designer. Here's a preview of the topic that will ship
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Monday, September 24, 2007 1:29 PM
Super-cool angiography application built using WPF
I wish I could attend this session, mentioned at Martin Kulov's blog : Tim Huckaby is going to show a Heart Surgery WPF / MOSS application called Angiographer for maybe the second first time in the world only during his keynote for DevReach 2007 . It
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007 6:58 AM
Silverlight 1.0 released to web -- Linux support announced
Come 'n' get it: http://www.silverlight.net . Here's the official word: Microsoft Delivers Silverlight 1.0, Extends Support to Linux “Entertainment Tonight” HSN and World Wrestling Entertainment showcase new online experiences; more than 35 partners commit
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Monday, August 27, 2007 11:03 AM
Cider Extensibility Help Documentation
PM extraordinaire Jim Nakashima has posted a preview of some of our docs that describe how to do things like implement custom adorners, menu items, and feature providers. Custom adorner for adjusting the RenderTransform of a control.
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:38 AM
RIP MDX 2.0
I have a side project in which I implement a model of load-propagation through a structure. Then I use a genetic algorithm to find structures which are stable and which satisfy other criteria. It's too involved to discuss here, but here's a screen shot
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Monday, December 04, 2006 10:32 AM
Expression Blend Beta (formerly "Sparkle") is available for download
I'm pleased to report that the public beta of Expression Blend, formerly known as "Sparkle" and "Expression Interactive Designer," is posted: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=EE6B5E7E-E1E8-4787-BF18-03C2E938A397&displaylang=en
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:58 AM
Fidalgo November CTP posted
Well, we called it the "October CTP" last week, but it's the "November CTP" now. Here it is, the last Fidalgo package that is deployed separately from Orcas: Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF), November 2006 CTP Have
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006 8:44 AM
Windows SDK has been released to web
I'm pleased to report that the Windows SDK for Windows Vista has been released to web. On the Download Center: ISO Install Web Install Please note that the Windows SDK for Windows Vista includes support for .NET Framework 3.0 and can be used to write
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