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Sunday, July 29, 2007 3:58 PM

Gundam Astray Red Frame

Here are some shots of my first Gundam model. Gundam Astray Red Frame gallery It's a Gundam Astray Red Frame in 1/100 scale. The color scheme calls for a bright red for the frame but I wanted to experiment with something darker so I went for Hull Red
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Saturday, April 28, 2007 8:12 PM

Airfix 1:48 Hawker Hurricane Mk I

Kit I bought the kit for about $13 from the local HobbyTown USA store in Redmond Town Center early in 2007. Prior to that, it must have been nearly thirty years since I'd bought and built a plastic scale model kit and that would have almost certainly
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Friday, February 09, 2007 3:11 PM

Kerning and animating text glyphs

This sample shows how to transform glyphs in a TextBlock. The kinds of things you can do here are letter-pair kerning and animating the translation or rotation of individual glyphs.
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Attachment(s): AnimatedText.zip
Tuesday, January 24, 2006 1:03 PM

Expression Interactive Designer preview available!

Today the Expression team is delighted to announce the availability of a preview version of Expression Interactive Designer. This preview version is the January 2006 Community Technology Preview [1] We have compiled a set of sample applications and tutorials
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Thursday, October 06, 2005 5:07 AM

Sparkle, development teams, and what ‘no code’ means

Microsoft Expression “Sparkle Interactive Designer” ( Sparkle for short) was announced and demonstrated at the Professional Developers’ Conference in Los Angeles last month. To find out what this powerful tool is all about, see the Expression Home Page
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Friday, September 23, 2005 8:26 PM

Sparkle Hayter and the Sparkle Fan

I’ve been a member of the Microsoft UK PSfD team for three and a half years now but, beginning on Monday, I’m moving to a new role in Redmond. Being an ADC has definitely been the best job experience I’ve had to date: the application development consultancy
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Friday, July 08, 2005 2:41 PM

My two SxS articles are now published in MSDN

I've removed the SxS articles from the blog now because they've recently been published on MSDN. Please see my MSDNography links section.
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Thursday, July 07, 2005 6:33 PM

Avalon 3D File System Visualizer (FolderTreemap3D)

Download the FolderTreemap3D sample (Requires Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP, .NET Framework 2.0 SDK Beta 2 (or Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2), and WinFX Beta 1 RC Runtimes and SDK ) Ben Shneiderman developed the treemap style of visualization in the early
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Sunday, June 19, 2005 11:42 AM

Building Avalon Apps: Basics and Behind-the-scenes. Part 2

Command-line build 2: XAML-only NavigationApplication In the previous post I showed how to build a very basic C#-only Avalon application. At the end I mentioned that declaring and initializing UI is probably not best done with imperative code. This time
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Saturday, June 18, 2005 1:21 PM

Building Avalon Apps: Basics and Behind-the-scenes. Part 1

I thought it would be interesting to walk through building some very basic Avalon applications. Some topics I want to introduce include Avalon’s application model; the interplay between declarative XAML markup and imperative CLR code-behind; what happens
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Monday, April 11, 2005 6:30 PM

Arthur, Nendo Nessie, and Avalon 3D

Download the ArthurTest sample Download nessie.obj Just before I started working at Microsoft nearly three years ago, I wrote a hobby project called Windows OpenGL Classes (WOC). It’s written in VC++ 6.0 (but it compiles with VS.NET 2002) and it’s a kind
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Sunday, March 13, 2005 5:52 PM

Computing Real-Time Holographic Video Content With Off-The-Shelf PC Hardware

If, like me, you've been awaiting an update on Mark Lucente's research, you'll find this paper by Tyeler Quentmeyer et al fascinating: http://web.media.mit.edu/~vmb/papers/quentmeyerms.pdf Apparently ( http://www.media.mit.edu/spi/ ) the Spatial Imaging
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Saturday, March 12, 2005 12:59 PM

Scales

So I’ve talked about classes representing the ideas of note and interval . This post I’ll cover Voices.ScaleClass , Voices.Scale and Voices.KeySignature . A scale is an interesting interplay between notes and intervals within an octave. As an example,
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Sunday, February 27, 2005 6:42 PM

Even more registration-free COM articles!

So, I spent the past two weekends and every evening between finishing these. Please check them out and let me know what you think. Registration-Free Activation of COM Components: A Walkthrough Registration-Free Activation of .NET-Based Components: A Walkthroug
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Sunday, February 20, 2005 8:27 PM

New registration-free COM article

I posted the article "SxS Managed COM With Manifest Resource (WinXP and Win2K3)" some time ago and Jason Buxton was interested in applying it to Visual Basic 6.0 client applications. Well, I've put together an MSDN article proposal which addresses that
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