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Tool: Crack.NET
Josh has just published the tool he's been working on - CRACK.NET. Its a combo of Snoop and Mole and its pretty awesome. "Crack.NET allows you to “walk” the managed heap of another .NET application, inspect all kinds of values on objects, and even manipulate Read More...
Tool: Export Visio to Xaml
This is a pretty nifty tool by Saveen .. The project is on codeplex: http://www.codeplex.com/VisioExportToXAML The results look amazing: (Visio rendering v/s Xaml render) Share this post Read More...
Creating Addins for XamlPadX
I got a few queries after releasing XamlPadX v3 regarding creating addins for the tool. So here is a small post on it. :) Create a customControlLibrary project. Add a reference to the AddInView dll present in the XamlPadX folder which is located in the Read More...
WpfPerf tools now available as a msi
A couple of weeks ago I had posted an entry about the WPF perf tools being part of the SDK.. One of the readers asked for a separate installable since the SDK is huge and downloading the SDK just for the perf tools really didnt make sense... So we listened, Read More...
Updated WpfPerf.msi
I got a couple of mail regarding the performance tools... The good news is that the Windows SDK which was released a week ago has the updated WPF perf tools. WPFperf.msi comes as part of the SDK. You would have to uninstall previous versions of the msi Read More...
Update: XamlPadX v2.5
I was pleasantly surprised by the response I got for the last update of the tool. Along with the feedback I got a few bugs... ahh the bugs ... so went about fixing them ... Got a couple of new features too. :) If you have noticed above, theres a System Read More...
Expression Blend available on MSDN
Expression Web and Blend will be available to all MSDN premium subscribers. yooohooo .... More power to users ....The following is the excerpt from Somasegar's blog: " I am pleased to say that we will be making Expression Web available starting today Read More...
NewsReader apps (built using NewsReader SDK)
I hope you guys out there have tried out the New York Times NewsReader. It enriches the reading experience. It’s more immersive in the sense that you get the feel of reading a newspaper J . Now we expand this experience to more readers. We now have Seattle Read More...
WPF/E 3D(like) photo app
Often times when I go through the WPF forums, I see people getting confused with WPF and WPF/E..... (don’t miss the ‘E’).. One of things that is on many of our minds is ‘why not xbap’. Chad summarizes the difference in his blog pretty well. “ WPF/E Applications Read More...
XamlPadX v2
Season's greetings guys :) Hope your Christmas was great. Ok so before we go into the next year I thought I'll take a look at XamlPadX since it will get a bit tough to spend some time on it in the next year. So XamlpadX v2 looks like: New features: 1> Read More...
Vista look on Non-Aero themes
Vista look on Non-Aero themes Read More...
XamlPadX (update)
I got a few requests to include a color picker which turns out to be pretty useful. As such, I have included it in the pallette A few things to keep in mind so that you might not get frustrated using the tool: Default behavior: Color picker is disabled Read More...
XamlPadX (extended)
XamlPad Xtended Read More...
HTML-XAML Converter
In V1, we do not support HTML format in Editing. As such, when you copy from IE and pasting into WPF, we basically use the rtf format. However, theres some good news. :) We do have a tool which enables this XAML-HTML scenario. The tool is available at: Read More...
Tool to Examine WPF control styles
A couple of weeks ago I had posted an entry on obtaining control styles and this post also had a zipped file. Now some of the readers replied back commenting that my post was incomplete as I had no mention mto the zipped file. And it turns out that I Read More...
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