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Friday, March 23, 2007 1:49 PM

Visual Studio, Expression Blend, and WPF

I've been doing a bit of prototyping work with the aforementioned products, and thought that since Blend has an RC1 release , it was a good time to share a few thoughts... The short story is that both VS and blend are pretty good tools for building in
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 8:16 AM

If it wasn't for him, we'd still be using toggle switches...

Okay, not quite, but John W. Backus , the developer of FORTRAN has died. He brought us do loops, assignment statements, the much-debated goto, intrinsic data types, and started the software developer's obsession with code formatting (1). FORTRAN is the
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 8:06 AM

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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 1:33 PM

WPF Tip: Names can't have ":" in them...

If you are doing storyboard-based animation, the animation is hooked up to a specific element through a unique id. You write code something like this: element.Name = "Fred"; window.RegisterName(element.Name, element); The second call establishes the relationship
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Friday, March 09, 2007 9:04 AM

Rockin' it old school...

When you get to be my age, you sometimes wonder whether you can still do what you could do when you were younger. Do you still have your old moves, have you lost your edge, do you still have that elusive "IT"? And frankly, with all the young pups I work
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Friday, March 09, 2007 9:01 AM

Windows Movie Maker and DVD Maker SDK released...

We've released an SDK that lets you extend the Vista versions of movie maker and DVD maker, though I should probably note that it's not a terribly simple thing to do. Here's the blurb from the download page : This SDK is helps you create and add your
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 9:51 AM

Missing columns...

Over the past month or so, I've been getting a number of requests for back columns that I wrote. If, for example, you do a web search on my dated and somewhat misleading and inaccurate column on app domains and dynamic loading, you will end up at an MSDN
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007 8:50 AM

The size of a house...

What do you do if you need to move a 200 ton, 9.8 m diameter spectrometer 400 km between two german towns, but the roads are too small? Well, you send it 9000 km through the mediterranean sea, and then through Romania, Hungary, and Vienna. All part of
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Thursday, March 01, 2007 8:25 PM

Beginning Developer Learning Center

Another dev center launches... Beginning Developer Learning Center Looks nice
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Thursday, March 01, 2007 8:22 PM

I've been found out...

I was trying to keep my intentions hidden, but Dan has disclosed them. I've been trying to look like Willem Defoe ...
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Thursday, March 01, 2007 8:56 AM

Reducing the risk of codevelopment

Software is always built on other software - your dependencies - and the dependencies that you choose have a considerable influence on your success. Choose the existing technology that you know, and you have good predictability, but you might not produce
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Thursday, March 01, 2007 8:25 AM

Windows DVD Maker SDK Information

A few things got mixed up in documenting some DVD Maker stuff, so I thought I'd like to the information out there and provide the information that hasn't quite made it out yet. First of all, if you are looking at adding custom transitions, buttons, and
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Thursday, March 01, 2007 8:20 AM

MSDN Regular Expression Forum

There's now an MSDN Regular Expression Forum
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