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A (super rough) Christmas Present

It's 1:22 AM. I think I'm getting sick. I'm flying out for California tomorrow. Haven't packed yet. And I'm coding. Some ideas you just have to get working before you can put them down. In no way is this beatiful code. The end-to-end is pretty interesting,
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Chat with the WPF team tomorrow

Our holiday gift to you: listening. Tomorrow (Dec 21) 12:30 - 1:30 PM Pacific Time. Details: http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/ Add to Calendar (As always, Tim is much more thorough than I.)
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New hotness, random musings

Interacting with 2D on 3D in WPF Holy hotness! Check out details on the WPF3D Blog Check out the Channel9 interview Check out the CodePlex project (and download the toys ) Go build games for your XBOX Too many links. A great write-up on FierceDeveloper
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WPF PivotTable

Bea 's intern this summer (Tomasz) wrote a sweet WPF control: PivotTable. I haven't had a chance to dig into the implementation, but the demo was amazing. Check it out on the WPF Community Site . (Bea also has a cool sample of a Color Picker control...without
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Snoop + IronPython = "OH MY GOD!"

(Thanks to Rob for the pointer .) Check out Matt's blog. I'm speechless. Amazing.
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KevinButton, etc.

KevinButton Robby and I were hanging out at TechEd in Boston. Randomly I say, “Hey, we should put more people in buttons.” Long story short, Robby hacks away on some XAML and gets laughs at my expense during his talk. Back in Redmond, Robby shows the
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Cleaning up your theme files with MergeDictionary

Once you get the resources for more than one control in generic.xaml, things can get a bit messy. What one really wants: split up your resources into separate dictionaries for each control. I do this as part of the latest bag-o-tricks . I should get Lauren
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Handling old projects when you upgrade to a new .NET Framework CTP

I'm sure we all love this dialog after a CTP refresh: The issue is that the project types have changed out from under your project. How do you fix it? Well, don't recreate your project from scratch, instead, reload the project. Now remove the line with
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Hello Tuesday

Control Licensing in Cider (WPF designer for VS) James provides some great information on supporting licensing for controls in WPF. Jamie is blogging like a mad man Jamie is going through some old posts by Bea and updating them for recent bits. He also
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Random musings.

July CTP Bag-O-Tricks Wow! People seem to be enjoying it...or at least downloading it. Let me know what you think. (I don't know what to do about adding more samples, though. What comes after eleventy ?) Charles is Having Fun Animated drawing brushed
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DatePicker and expand-a-node in TreeView: updates to the Bag-O-Tricks for the July CTP

I promised you I'd get these in "this week". I guess, depending on how you split the weeks, I delivered. Most of the details are in the post on the Community Site for WPF . DatePicker/MonthCalendar were implemented by our friends in the Advanced Technology
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XBAP video on Channel 9

Check out the video of Lauren and Karen talking about XBAPs (WPF in the browser) on Channel 9 .
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IE 7: Cool to Wicked Cool

I’ve been happily crankin’ along with IE 7 Beta2 for a while now. I just upgraded to IE7 Beta3 . Wow! Demonstrably faster. I just feels tight and crisp. Go download...quick...now... FYI: make sure you un-install any previous IE7 Betas before you try this
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Better performance for large data sets in Selector (ListBox, ListView, etc)

We've had feedback from a number of people about enumerations of the entire collection and calls to Contains/IndexOf in controls that derive from Selector. This has caused headaches for those that want to roll their own virtualization solutions for these
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Hardware-accelerated transparent windows - Hot!

Nick and Lauren have both blogged about one of the coolest "late" features in WPF: hardware-accelerated layered windows. Download a sample from Lauren's blog. As with every cool feature in WPF, please use responsibly. I can imagine this getting
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