White n’ Nerdy

Weird Al’s White n’ Nerdy. Sheer genius. Nothing more even needs to be said.

My first week with Vista

So, this is my first week running Vista (RC1) on my primary machine. It’s a laptop that I use exclusively both at work and at home. The specs are: Alienware M7700 3.8GHz Intel P4 w/HT 2GB RAM 100GB 7200RPM SATA HD (two NTFS partitions) nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra Go (beta WDDM drivers) Realtek High Definition […]

Sept. Atlas ToolKit Released

The toolkit is certainly getting better with every release. The coolest thing added this time around has to be the support for declarative animation. Very WPF like… though no where near as nice because browsers just suck at this stuff. 😛 I’m still waiting on the release of Sept. CTP for Atlas itself… hint hint. […]

Activator::CreateInstance performance for more than 16 types == baaaaad

I stumbled upon this earlier this year, but I didn’t have the time to blog about it then. Since I was just doing some more tuning around the area of code where I applied this technique I figured I’d do a quick write up on it in the hopes that it may benefit someone else out there. […]

Essential WPF almost ready!

Chris Anderson has made a couple of posts lately about his book, Essential WPF, nearing completion. Today he lets us know that the website for the book is now available. I’m looking forward to it as it’s the first book from someone who was actually on the team who made WPF a reality. I’m hoping […]

How should Cider define the names of WPF controls? You decide!

Head over to this post to get an understanding of the control naming issue at hand and then leave comments on how you’d like to see it done. I voted for no names by default, auto-naming if none-exists but one is needed (i.e. event handler generation) and suggested they put the name as the very […]

Providing custom context to your WCF service instance

In my last post about providing custom context I described a way that allowed you to scope the context to the operation/method level. This time I’m going to show you a way that will allow you to scope your context to the service instance level. As you may, or may not, know there are a few instancing modes for […]

Mimeo is looking for a DBA

I’ve been acting as the part time DBA around here since the company started. I know way more than I care to about things like backups, indexing, clustering, replication, etc. Now the company needs things like OLAP, Report Server and all sorts of other fun things that I just don’t have the time for since […]

Support for ObjectDataProvider with ContructorParameters broken in EID

I just filed a bug over on Microsoft Connect about a problem in Expression Interactive Designer with the design time support for an ObjectDataProvider where ConstructorParameters are used. I noticed it a couple weeks ago and never got around to filing, but I just got back into working on the project where I was having the […]

Atlas gets its official product name

Well, the news is out over on Scott Guthrie’s weblog: Atlas has received it’s offical name and true to Microsoft tradition it’s no where near as cool as the code-name. 😛 There are technically three major facets to the product formally known as Atlas and Scott does a good job breaking it down, but I’ll […]

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