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June 2007 - Posts

Saturday, June 30, 2007 9:25 PM

A great end to a great week (Code for the Country raises $5000 for the drought relief)

Just got home from the Brisbane delivery of Code for the Country and I must say that it is a great way to end a great week. The week started in Melbourne where I attended one of the best events i have been to this year: Microsoft Remix. I then flew up
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:14 AM

Architect Forum Sydney Recap

Today marked the end of the first delivery of the Australian Architect Forum . For those of you that may not be across the AAF: It was a one day ($295 ) event that was run as a cooperative of the major players in the architecture space in Sydney and Melbourne.
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 2 Comments
Friday, June 22, 2007 4:39 PM

Expression Blend Error on Install

If you are getting the error: “You need to have .NET 3.0 run-time components installed” when installing Blend you may be running into a known problem if Orcas/Visual Studio 2008 has been installed first. To resolve reset the the registry key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Friday, June 22, 2007 2:26 PM

Shane Morris and the Age of UX to visit Perth!

Perth .NET CoP July 5th Join Perth .NET Cop: Perth’s Community of Practice is Perth’s only .NET user group to hear about the latest announcements made at Mix –and get as much of Shane's legendary the Age of UX as possible. Not to be missed! http://www.perthdotnet.org
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 3 Comments
Thursday, June 21, 2007 10:17 PM

Cute competition Designer vs Developer

You can upload your photo and let people guess if you are a developer or designer. Grand Prize is a Dell Laptop! http://designervsdeveloper.com.au/
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Thursday, June 21, 2007 5:44 PM

WPF XML Databinding for Noobies

I must admit the new databinding in WPF is very nice and very simple -apparently just not simple enough as i struggled with the xpath syntax and thought i would share my findings. Starting with an XML file called XMLFile1.xml with the following contents:
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Thursday, June 21, 2007 1:15 PM

XBAP Hands On lab (Beta) Available

I have been working getting the TechEd Project up and going and am proud to say we did our first walk through last night with Joseph Cooney and Michael Wise. The timings were pretty close to what i expected from folks that knew these tools really well.
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Wednesday, June 20, 2007 12:37 PM

Wacom to give away a free Bamboo Tablet at the WPF Day.

I was talking to Ric at Wacom and i mentioned the WPF training I was helping with and he asked if we were going to do any inking. I indicated Joseph and Deepak didn't have a Tablet to do things like my Getting ink recognition working in WPF demo working.
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Wednesday, June 20, 2007 11:14 AM

One week left for the Australian Architect forum!

I have had a couple people ping me about the Australian Architect forum and thought i would post the details on my blog...note all these details are also on the AAF site: http://www.architectureforum.net.au Sydney Wednesday, 27 th June 2007 Melbourne
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 4 Comments
Monday, June 18, 2007 9:35 PM

Readify looking to offer Silverlight courses

The guys at Readify are trying to judge the interest in rolling out a Silverlight course locally. If you are not familiar with Silverlight: Microsoft® Silverlight™ is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Monday, June 18, 2007 8:30 PM

Building a Windows Sidebar Gadget WebCast

Just posted a Screencast of John at Soul Solutions on building a Windows Sidebar Gadget. The gadget is based off the slideshow gadget from Vista. 15 Queensland Cameras are hardcoded in Javascript. By default the slideshow will fade between the cameras
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Sunday, June 17, 2007 10:59 PM

Free WPF Training in Melbourne Sydney and Brisbane June 30th

Couple people have pinged me about the Free WPF training I mentioned a while back and figured i had better get the details posted -before the event! For the folks in Brisbane I have a special treat...They get to be the first people in the world to get
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 5 Comments
Monday, June 11, 2007 10:55 AM

Setting the left & top properties of a WPF Control

I needed to move a XPF/XAML control programmatically and didn't really need it animated so did the same thing i always did in Windows forms: Button1.Left= 10 -Which of course gave me the error: Error 1 'Left' is not a member of 'System.Windows.Controls.Button'.
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Wednesday, June 06, 2007 8:34 PM

Using Exported Images from Expression Design in a WPF Application

In my post "Easily create XAML objects from Clipart" I was exporting the image as a Canvas. Which works quite well if you want to use the XAML inline. But this can make your XAML quite busy. A better way might be to export your images from Expression
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
Wednesday, June 06, 2007 11:29 AM

Resizing a collection of Paths in WPF

Since my post "Cool XAML objects from Clipart" i have been playing with these Metafile images as XAML. One of my first challenges was resizing them...in looking at the hundreds of paths i was thinking this was going to be a real bear! Of course i was
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 0 Comments
 
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