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Announcing: Vista SP1 RTM/ WPF App quality guide
The WPF team at Microsoft is happy to present the first release of the WPF Application Quality Guide. http://windowsclient.net/wpf/white-papers/wpf-app-quality-guide.aspx It’s a guide that upon completion can be a one-stop shop for guidance and best practices Read More...
MindMap app using Hyperbolic tree
I recently came across a Hyperbolic tree implementation on codeplex using WPF and thought that a nice usage of it could be in writing a mind map creating application.... I tweaked some of the original code and got a tree with editable nodes... Its been Read More...
Updated Live maps
Live maps (maps.live.com) has been updated with a new intuitive UI.. check it out.. its got several new features.. One thing that has me excited is the 1 click directions Search for a business and it shows the list of matches with a link '1-click directions' Read More...
.NET Source code
Now thats what I call WOW ... For .NET developers this is like getting hold of the holy grail :) ... " We'll begin by offering the source code (with source file comments included) for the .NET Base Class Libraries (System, System.IO, System.Collections, Read More...
Windows Live translator
Heya, one of the requests that I often get is if I could provide a translated version of my blog. Thats going to be difficult considering that my proficiency in these languages is minimal if not nil :) ... but wait, Windows live has this nice translator Read More...
Testing using WPF UI automation
One question that often pops up among WPF app developers is UI testing... WPF enables this scenario through a new accessibility framework. Some useful resources from mdeavey's post Overview Using UI Automation UI Spy Stress Test using UI Automation Unit Read More...
3.5 features: Viewport2DVisual3D
Viewport2DVisual3D .... this new feature makes things a lot easier in the 3D world.. What this enables is putting interactive 2D on 3D. This makes things like having a textbox in 3D a breeze... < Viewport2DVisual3D x:Name = " vp2d_multiple_children Read More...
Live search in a Silverlight avatar
Try out tafiti.com ... Not heard of it... its a new search site from Microsoft which provides Live search results in a Silverlight interface... The site is in beta but it shows the power of Silverlight.. You would need to install the Release candidate Read More...
3.5 Features: Enabled hyperlinks in RichTextBox
hmmm... that was one often requested feature. So to enable hyperlinks in RichTextBox all that is needed is to set the property IsDocumentEnabled on the RichTextBox. Type the following in XamlPadX and you have the hyperlink navigation working. < RichTextBox Read More...
3.5 features: Filtering text with IME languages
So 3.5 beta2 is out and it has quite a lot of features. So one of them is the filtering mechanism for IME languages. This was not a problem in the english and other non-IME languages. The problems were the events associated with IME input - TextInputStart/Update/input... Read More...
3.5 released with many features!!!
You can now download Visual studio 2008 Beta2 and .Net 3.5 Beta 2. The link is here So whats new in 3.5 - Support for Addins - Xbaps now run in FoerFox - Cookies can be shared between XBAP's and Web Apps - Better support for binding to BindingList coll Read More...
Maps integrated into Live Search
Live Search has now integrated maps into the search itself.. so now if you type in an address you get a map at the top of the search which is interactive... ain't that sweet Search: 156th ave redmond Search: traffic redmond Search : map Fom the Virtual Read More...
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