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Microsoft Student Technology Day Videos Online - SteveB and more industry/MSFT greats
21 November 08 12:49 PM
On 1 October 2008, Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer and a host of industry professionals discussed the next generation of computer science innovations with more than 300 students and lecturers from across the UK - the event was the Student Technology Day Read More...
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WindowsClient.net community for rich-client/desktop developers
14 May 07 11:06 AM
Ian Moulster has the scoop on WindowsClient.net launching - it is a new site focused at developers working on rich client applications (run on desktop). It's a really nice site that combines the two worlds of WinForms and Windows Presentation Foundation. Read More...
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End to end WPF demo - Family.Show
30 April 07 04:05 PM
Vertigo Software have just shipped Family.Show (family history explorer - stuff that my Dad would dig really!), a complete end to end reference example of building an application using Windows Presentation Foundation The Source Code is available for download Read More...
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Workaround for Visual Studio 'Orcas' March CTP and Blend not playing together
29 March 07 01:00 PM
I've had a couple of email exchanges with customers who are playing with Visual Studio Orcas and Expression Blend and facing challenges with incomaptibilities. The problems arise when trying to open Blend created projects in Orcas and Blend not being Read More...
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Expression Blend tutorial videos
15 February 07 10:01 AM
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...
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WPF app - Yahoo Messenger looks amazing
09 January 07 09:48 AM
With Vista general availability under 3 weeks away, there are more and more companies jumping on the WPF and great user experience bus. Yahoo has just announced its new Messenger applicatin which takes advantage of the .NET Fx 3 and more importantly WPF Read More...
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WPF - how to map mouse clicks on a 3D shape to a 2D texture coordinate
03 December 06 01:05 PM
This is just plain cool and I had to link to it before I pack. Lester Lobo has posted a great little snippet of code and explanation on how to handle mouse events on a 3D model to a 2D texture coordinate. Mapping mouseclick on 3DModel to a 2D texture Read More...
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The Panel - Creating front end experiences
28 November 06 10:04 AM
The Panel is a new site/community/buzz thing all about stuff that you look at on Windows Vista and the web. It is going to be a 'place' for Microsoft to showcase interesting applications, websites, gadgets that take advantage of all the great new stuff Read More...
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So much to do, so little time...
22 November 06 10:28 PM
Well, all I seem to talk about these days is that I am going away on holiday for a granduoso 3 weeks to Australia (maybe I should meet up with other DPE folks like Frank or Dave). The countdown is on now with under 2 weeks til we fly off - can't wait. Read More...
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SWF to XAML converter released by Michael Swanson
21 November 06 08:23 PM
Michael Swanson has released a free converter to take SWF to XAML converter. "Finally! After months of tinkering around in my spare time, I've managed to assemble a relatively useful tool called SWF2XAML . The first version of this tool allows you to Read More...
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Birmingham University Talk - Lap around WPF
10 November 06 10:32 AM
Yesterday, I travelled north to visit Birmingham Computer Science department to give a guest presentation on WPF to a large lecture theatre's worth of students. I think that will be my 4th presentation there in 3 odd years so it's kind of a regular gig, Read More...
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Reach/richness of user experience technologies
26 October 06 12:29 PM
Mike Taulty in my team posted a great diagram describing the reach/richness of Microsoft presentation technologies. This really sums up the world of presentaiton technologies and web technologies which I hope to present on for the next year or two! I've Read More...
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Learning WPF from a Windows Forms programmer's perspective
13 October 06 03:01 PM
I'm not a WinForms programmer and never really have been and have lived for several years (comfortably) in the land of mark-up and web applications. I understand the techniques and challenges many WinForms programmers will be facing when trying to get Read More...
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Update on NYT Reader - a walkthrough of the application
04 October 06 09:25 AM
Further to my blog entry last night about the great New York Times reader, Pablo Fernicola has a great walkthrough of all the features and design considerations that went into the product Link to New York Times Reader walkthrough Technorati tags: wpf Read More...
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Ruby on .NET and WPF revolution
13 September 06 09:09 AM
I get a regular email from the people over on www.theserverside.net and the most recent one included some interesting stuff for web developers and those interested in developing clients using WPF. First, people are porting Ruby onto the .NET Framework Read More...
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