WPF MSDN Browser Inspired by Craig’s MSDNMan, Ian has created an MSDN browser with WPF. If, like me, you read a ton of MSDN content every day, both of these tools are extreeeemely welcome additions to browsing the online content or using the installed version of the content. Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Adobe and Microsoft doing the PR dance around Office 2007 PDF support Just noticed via Dare’s blog that Adobe has officially responded to Microsoft’s announcement that PDF will be pulled due to fears of Adobe lawsuits. Then Microsoft comes back with a reassurance that all they’re trying to do is offer the best possible experience for the users that want PDFs from their Office documents and not […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
WPF Performance Q&A Here’s a really great post from Tim Cahill “WPF Performance Guy”. It’s Q&A style with some answers to some of the more common questions about, what else, WPF performance. Definitely worth a read if you are (or are going to be) working on graphics intensive WPF apps. Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
ADO.NET Entities I mentioned ADO.NET v3 a little while back, but all the info that leaked out was pulled. Now there’s a video up on Channel9 with Anders Hejlsberg and Sam Druker on the entity features that are coming with the next version of ADO.NET. The driving technology for all of this is of course LINQ. Exciting times […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Designer Developer Workflow with WPF Here’s a great Channel9 screencast that just came out demo’ing how the typical interaction between developer and designer will work with Visual Studio and Expression Interactive Designer. One thing about EID that I love which is demo’d here is the fact that control behavior is live in EID. That is, any behavior you’ve built into your controls will function, […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Silent Breaking-Change to FormsAuthentication::RedirectFromLoginPage Heads up on a silent breaking change that I just came across with FormsAuthentication’s RedirectFromLoginPage method when migrating from ASP.NET 1.1 to 2.0. The exact message you get will be (with top of callstack): System.Web.HttpException: The return URL specified for request redirection is invalid. at System.Web.Security.FormsAuthentication.GetReturnUrl(Boolean useDefaultIfAbsent) at System.Web.Security.FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(String userName, Boolean createPersistentCookie, String strCookiePath) at System.Web.Security.FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(String userName, […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Team Build: Get only changesets and work items related to a subfolder in a project There are a couple ways to approach structuring your Team Projects depending on what you want to accomplish (see the answer to the “Should I create a team project per application or per release?” in the FAQ). Consider the per application scenario, where you have a single Team Project with multiple trunks per-version: $/My Project |- […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
How well do you know JavaScript? Dean Edwards, a well-known name in the HTML/CSS/JavaScript world, has whipped up a little test to gauge someone’s level of expertise in JavaScript. How knowledgable are you? This got me thinking about Atlas a little. Initially I was ready to say you need to be a level 6 to even think about working with Atlas, but then […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Office 2007 to be stripped of its PDF generation capabilities? Looks like Microsot is expecting Adobe to seek legal action against it based on a “break down in talks” about Office 2007’s built in PDF generation. From the way the article makes it sound, Microsoft has basically already decided to pull the feature. PDF is an open standard, so I dunnuh how much of this is reality yet. This post that I […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Beware the Introduction of DateTime.Kind in .NET 2.0 I just spent the majority of the day fixing some code that was migrated from .NET 1.1 to 2.0. The code in question does a lot of DateTime conversion with respect to timezones. The existing code would basically take the UTC date it was given and adjust it by some arbitrary number of hours representing the […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
