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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:30 PM

Visual Studio 2010 New Editor screenshot

I’m very happy with how the Visual Studio editor improved since Beta1: This is all WPF and includes the WPF 4.0 text rendering changes (DWrite integration). Note the new Zoom combobox in the bottom-left (which is the visual counterpart of Ctrl+ScrollWheel).
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Monday, September 28, 2009 1:35 AM

Random Gradient Wallpaper Generator

Oops, I did it again :) Created a new CodePlex project, that is. Introducing http://wallpaper.codeplex.com – a simple tool to generate a nice random wallpaper and display it on your desktop with just one click: Randomize - assigns random colors to all
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Sunday, September 27, 2009 11:30 PM

Dump Environment Folder Paths

This is just a quick snippet to dump the value of Environment.GetFolderPath for all special folders on a machine (so I don’t have to write it again next time): public static string DumpEnvironmentPaths() { var paths = Enum .GetValues( typeof ( Environment
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Sunday, September 27, 2009 2:10 PM

Tip: Don’t enter your CodePlex credentials every time

I just ran across an awesome tip at Scott’s blog that is going to save me a whole lot of time: Save Your Codeplex Repository Credentials I was entering my username and password everytime I connected to a CodePlex TFS server. Now I don’t have to! P.S.
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Friday, September 25, 2009 6:06 PM

ColorPicker Control for WPF/Silverlight

A while back I was looking around for a color picker control for Live Geometry . The ColorPicker from http://silverlightcontrib.codeplex.com was exactly what I was looking for: (live preview needs Silverlight 3.0) Using the control in your code I just
Posted by Kirill Osenkov | 2 Comments
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 8:14 PM

Reflection with dynamic

This past summer the Visual C# IDE team was fortunate enough to have Paul van Brenk intern with us. Paul is a great guy and an experienced .NET developer from Rotterdam, Netherlands , who is interested in Azure, cloud computing and many other things.
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009 10:34 PM

First videos of the structured editor prototype

Disclaimer: the structured editor work described in my posts is unrelated to my work at Microsoft. Everything shown is my personal research done as part of my MSc thesis during 2004-2007. Also, it’s not ready for real use and does not cover all the features
Posted by Kirill Osenkov | 8 Comments
Wednesday, September 02, 2009 3:29 AM

UI without code or XAML: PropertyGrid, DataForm, etc.

WPF has certainly advanced the state-of-the-art in programming the UI. I personally think that WPF and Silverlight remove all the limits that existed to UI development in the past. The only limit now is your imagination. XAML is there for declarative
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