February 2007 - Posts

WPF and Accessibility
28 February 07 09:47 AM | markjo | 0 Comments   

A developer at Devweek asked me yesterday how WPF handles accesibility and I wasn't 100% on the answer, other than I took for granted that it just worked. And to demo this was really simple, I turned on the Screen Narrator (Login page and the little accessibilty Read More...

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Extreme WPF Makeover by Frog Design
27 February 07 10:02 PM | markjo | 0 Comments   

There is a nice video over on Channel 10/on10 that walks through a case study of design agency, Frog Design, going through the design process with a real life customer and showing how quickly they can go from requirements to proof developed in WPF. I'd Read More...

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OT: Put a Linux Guru through pain (for charity...mate)
26 February 07 08:18 PM | markjo | 0 Comments   

Jono Bacon , Mr Ubuntu Community dude/ Herder of Cats /all-round-good-chap, is attempting to perform, record, mix and master an entire album by himself in 24 hours! And he's doing it for Comic Relief , a very noble charity and UK TV event. In good banter, Read More...

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Free 'Web 2.0' training with Mix University
22 February 07 01:08 PM | markjo | 0 Comments   

Unfortunately, I won't be attending Mix in May but thankfully there are lots of good resources being created for people like me who can't attend to get hands-on experience of all the next generation web experiences on Windows and through browsers. Content Read More...

WPF based Daily Mail (UK) eReader beta released
22 February 07 12:57 PM | markjo | 1 Comments   

At the UK Vista and Office 2007 developer launch h event a few weeks back, I had Rich Griffin from Conchango come on stage to give a sneak preview of the Daily Mail eReader he was working on a few months back. You can still watch or download the video Read More...

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WPF Application Portfolio on Channel9
19 February 07 03:05 PM | markjo | 0 Comments   

Looks like there are a lot of people jumping on the WPF gravy-train at the moment with an absolute tonne of applications being released (some good and some, well err, not so good!). Eric Nelson in my group has some short and sweet additional commentary Read More...

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Calling all UK architects, Architect Insight Conference
15 February 07 01:21 PM | markjo | 0 Comments   

Now, I know this doesn't seem really on the money for the type of stuff I talk about or the people I imagine read my blog but you may picks this off the main MSDN feed or know someone who would be right to go to this conference. On 5-6 March 2007 at The Read More...

Expression Blend tutorial videos
15 February 07 10:01 AM | markjo | 0 Comments   

Martin Grayson , a UX guru in the Microsoft Services part of our business has worked with a colleague in my group, Richard Godfrey to put together these excellent video tutorials of working with WPF (from a real world project perspective) and Expression Read More...

Filed under: WPF, Expression, Developer

Rich Client Development with XAML Resources: MS UK Technical Roadshow 2007
14 February 07 07:31 PM | markjo | 2 Comments   

Below are a list of resources which are relevant for attendees of the UK Technical Roadshow running across the UK over the next couple of months. Websites .NET Framework 3 Community - WPF MSDN Developer Centre - WPF What is XAML? MSDN Developer Centre Read More...

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Vista Sidebar Gadget Resources from Conchango
08 February 07 06:09 PM | markjo | 0 Comments   

As a nice follow on to my post yesterday about the Universal Music uMusic gadget I spotted on Rich Griffin's blog an excellent entry with a comprehensive set of resources on coding a gadget and deploying in a production environment: Vista Sidebar Gadget Read More...

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Nice new gadget from Universal Music
08 February 07 04:18 AM | markjo | 1 Comments   

If you are into music and want a minimalist way of playing your music collection on your Windows Vista PC, keep up to date with the latest music videos from major record label Universal Music then I know just the solution for you: Download and Install Read More...

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In Seattle for training this week
07 February 07 01:29 AM | markjo | 0 Comments   

I meant to post that I was heading to the north west US for our annual "chip-in-neck-upgrade" but forgot as I rushed myself onto the BA flight to Seattle from London. It's been a good week so far with lots of new stuff with a really heavy emphasis on Read More...

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WPF/E December CTP prematurely expired, February CTP released
01 February 07 09:28 AM | markjo | 2 Comments   

Looks like there was a boo boo in the December CTP of WPF/E and it prematurely time bombed. Tim Sneath has the details and links to the download for the latest Feb CTP: WPF/E February 2007 CTP runtime ( Windows , Mac ) Updated agHost.js file Updated Channel Read More...

Visual Studio Keyboard shortcuts
01 February 07 09:22 AM | markjo | 0 Comments   

I see from Tim Heuer in the US that they have been distributing a poster with Visual Studio keyboard shortcuts out at events and that it is now available online: visual c# keyboard shortcuts visual basic keyboard shortcuts And after spending the week Read More...