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I, like many other people in the Seattle area, ran the St. Patrick's Day Dash yesterday. For those that don't know, I was a formerly heavy guy (see my I'm not half the man I used to be post). Last year I ran the race I was 30 pounds heavier than I am
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For some reason, I'm drawn to creating things that are just cool while not altogether useful (see my Animated Activity Designer post, though one could argue that it may in fact be useful). To that end, I decided to create a Vista Sidebar gadget that displays
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So I got bored a few nights ago and decided to see if I can do some stop motion animation using my wife's Nikon D70 and Windows Movie Maker. After I imported all the pictures I took of my kids (somewhere around 100) into Windows Movie Maker, I went into
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Since a few people have asked, I updated the source for WFPad to work with the latest and greatest Windows Workflow Foundation. Click the link to download: WFPad.exe or the zip file: WFPad.zip Enjoy!
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Ok, first off let me say that I really really don't try to just create a blog entry that simply links to someone elses blog entry. Most of what I blog about comes straight out of my head and usually involves the use of an IDE and source code. However,
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As I mentioned in my last post, I have uploaded the Animated Activity Designer for use in your own project. A common question I can anticipate being asked is "Why?". So, here's why I created it and my reason as to why you may want to use something like
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Keeping in line with Mark Schmidt tradition, I present to you a little teaser. I will be posting the code for an animated custom activity designer that you can use for your custom activities. Not only will it allow you to create a cool looking animated
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So you created a fancy new application and it hosts the WF designer. It's all looking good and when you go to load up that cool state machine workflow you created earlier to add a bit more polish, you notice that all the layout you worked for hours (ok,
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Here's a quick code snippet o' the day. If you're hosting the WF designer in an application and want to programmatically add an activity to the designer view, you can use the following code. Basically, grab the IDesignerHost service from your WorkflowView
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Just saw that we now have Vista flavored Talking Rain in the pop coolers (err, soda for you non-northwesterners). Actually, it's Lemon-Lime with the Vista logo on the front. Here's some pictures:
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I'm about 3/4 what I used to be. I recently finished the 20/20 weight management program of which Microsoft pays a large portion of. I started the Monday before Thanksgiving (why oh why did I not start after Thanksgiving) and just recently finished at
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Back by popular demand, I now release the Beta 2 version of WFPad. However, it's not a simple port but a new and improved version. In this version, you can open workflows contained in any .NET assemblies (if I recall, that feature didn't work so well
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I've been getting quite a few emails/comments about WFPad and it's state for Beta 2. Here's a teaser image for you. I will release it tomorrow to the masses...
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I won't blab much, but Beta 2 is here and it's hot. Once again, I worked in the doc's with primary responsibilities being the tutorials and sample content (not the actual samples themselves though). The tutorials have been seriously revamped since Beta
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My first interview question was pretty successful. The one that was closest to my solution was Paul Bartrum (that name sounds familiar for some reason) followed closely by domovoi (though I didn't test his). Both Paul and I had just a single for loop
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