IRhetoric - Karsten Januszewski

I've written about XBAPs and full trust in the past, but never as thoroughly as Karen Corby just did in her post on XBAP trust levels . She spent a lot of time getting this post correct, reviewing with various folks within Microsoft and providing very Read More...

I'm here at CES, where Yahoo and Microsoft showed off a preview of the new Yahoo Messenger for Vista, built entirely on WPF. Yahoo has a great landing page with screenshots, a screencast of the app and a sign up sheet for when they release a beta. I held Read More...

Once I got WCF working in a gadget, another scenario came up: wouldn't it be nice if the gadget and the application shared a data model? The gadget could remotely databind to the same data that the application was databound to. As such, there would be Read More...

I recently faced the design challenge of getting an application and gadget to communicate. How to solve the problem? Well, what better way to talk between applications than Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). After all, it is the inheritor of the Read More...