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A Developer’s Guide to Preparing for Windows 7

As everyone must know by now, the Windows 7 Release Candidate is broadly released and available for download from the Windows site . The RC build is essentially our dress rehearsal: we’ve hit feature complete, stabilized the release, followed the active Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 06, 2009 6:13 PM by tims | 17 Comments
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MIX09 Day 2 Keynote Pt 2: Deborah Adler on Changing Behavior by Design

Deborah Adler presented a fascinating case study of how user experience design can really have a positive impact on the lives of those who touch our products. She was the principal designer behind Target’s ClearRx drug prescription packaging , which has Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:27 AM by tims | 4 Comments
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Windows 7 Theme Packs: Customize Your Desktop

Just wanted to take a moment to highlight Mike Swanson’s amazing theme pack for Windows 7. Mike is a colleague, friend who works just down the corridor from me. His primary role with the company is as a content owner for our developer conferences (he’s Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 25, 2009 7:59 PM by tims | 3 Comments
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Great Line-of-Business Controls for WPF

I'm delighted to see that Infragistics have just released their NetAdvantage control set for WPF. It's a huge download: over 100MB, so either the controls are very big, the documentation is extremely verbose, or there are lots of samples included! This Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2008 12:31 AM by tims | 9 Comments
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The New Iteration: A Whitepaper on the XAML Revolution

Whenever we run a WPF or Silverlight training event or lab, the one question that is guaranteed to come up relates to the designer / developer workflow on a project team. In the old days of Win32 or Windows Forms, the workflow was straightforward (albeit Read More...
Posted Friday, December 07, 2007 5:26 PM by tims | 10 Comments
 
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