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MIX07 Welcome Swag

Swag found in my MIX07 Welcome Pack: 1 Silverlight / Mix07 T-Shirt (obligatory) 1 copy Vista Ultimate (cool) 1 copy Expression Studio (double cool!!) 3 coloured "discipline" armbands to identify the like-minded at MIX (Blue=Developer, Green=Business, Read More...
Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 7:02 AM by robburke | 5 Comments

British Library WPF Application: Leaf through & annotate historic texts

The British Library has launched an application that uses the Windows Presentation Foundation to let you leaf through historic texts. Like Doninoken (mentioned yesterday ), it's published as an XBAP - a WPF application that runs within Internet Explorer, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2007 12:28 PM by robburke | 2 Comments

WPF: Free DataGrid control, Doninoken movie

There were a couple of interesting Windows Presentation Foundation bits I've seen recently. A third-party called XCeed has released a DataGrid control for WPF that is free of charge! A DataGrid was conspicuously missing from the WPF toolbox and I think Read More...
Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 2:23 PM by robburke | 5 Comments

WPF/E -- Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere -- Community Preview

Interested in developing applications in the Windows Presentation Foundation that you can run… everywhere? "WPF/E" is the Microsoft solution for delivering rich, cross-platform, interactive experiences including animation, graphics, audio, and video for Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 19, 2006 5:31 PM by robburke | 5 Comments

Interact with 2D in 3D: 3D Tools for the Windows Presentation Foundation

With the 3D Tools for the Windows Presentation Foundation library, which is now available on CodePlex, the Windows Presentation Foundation team has reduced the 3D case back to 2D, and made it possible to interact with 2D objects within a 3D scene. See Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 10:17 AM by robburke | 0 Comments

Flash (SWF) to XAML converter

Mike Swanson has created a Flash (.SWF) to XAML conversion tool called SWF2XAML . Great stuff!! KarstenJ interviewed Mike discussing the utility on Channel9 . Mike's utility will be a great addition to the toolbox for artists who have content in Flash Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 21, 2006 10:15 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

NLarge is now a CodePlex community project

NLarge is now hosted up on CodePlex as a community project ! If you haven't seen CodePlex, it's like "Team Foundation Server in the Sky": a place to host community projects, which hosts code, wikis, work items, and all the other great Team Foundation Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 10:33 PM by robburke | 3 Comments

DirectX demos still get my juices flowing

On Tuesday I attended Mike Pelton's session about how to choose between WPF and DirectX for rendering 3D graphics. He began by illustrating WPF's strengths, and specifically called out data binding, the similarities between the 2D and 3D APIs, and the Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 12:23 PM by robburke | 2 Comments

Introducing NLarge - screen magnifier utility for presentations

NLarge is a free little utility for technical presentations. It magnifies the screen (via a smooth animation), and allows you to pan and zoom around the magnified image. You can annotate the magnified screen using the mouse or a Tablet PC pen. NLarge Read More...
Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 6:22 PM by robburke | 2 Comments

Looking for a few great launch Partners

Launch is coming soon, not just for Windows Vista and .NET 3.0, but also the 2007 Office System and Exchange 2007. We're looking for a few great Partners to be involved in this very significant event. Over the past two weeks, I've met with local development Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 4:59 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

Galway ICT Productivity Conference: 12th Oct for Devs, Architects, IT Professionals

The Galway ICT Productivity Conference, which will take place on Thursday October the 12th, promises top-class speakers for Developers, Architects and IT Professionals . The theme of the day is ‘Increasing Productivity through Technology,' which is looked Read More...
Posted Monday, October 02, 2006 7:00 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

Petzold's new WPF book, Applications = Code + Markup, is brilliant

I've been meaning to write for some time about Charles Petzold 's book on the Windows Presentation Foundation, Applications = Code + Markup . Early reviews of the book offered glowing praise , so I ordered a copy of my own. I've read enough of it by now Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 10:23 PM by robburke | 1 Comments

Top Tips for free Microsoft support and training resources

Clare asked Dave and me to reveal some hidden gems that are available from Microsoft for technical support and learning. This was our list of the shiniest gems that we find devs and IT pros don't always know about. I also posted the Best of the Rest as Read More...
Posted Monday, September 25, 2006 11:39 AM by robburke | 5 Comments

Dave and Rob's Top 5 Tips for Free Microsoft Support and Learning Resources (and the Best of the Rest!)

Dave and Rob ’s Top 5 Tips for Free Microsoft Support and Learning Resources 1. MSDN Forums – http://forums.msdn.com Looking for answers to your toughest technical questions? The MSDN forums are regularly visited by members of the product teams, MVPs, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 20, 2006 4:57 PM by robburke | 1 Comments

MSDN Flash Ireland - International Resources - 19 Sept 2006

Special Section: ASP.NET 2.0 [ASP.NET] [Windows Forms and Smart Clients] Dundas Map for .NET Released Dundas Software has officially launched Dundas Map for .NET - available for ASP.NET with AJAX support and Windows Forms. [ASP.NET] September ASP.NET Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 4:27 PM by robburke | 0 Comments
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