Web Application Projects for Visual Studio 2005 Released Microsoft’s mea cupla for screwing up the web project model with the Web Site Project type has been released. We’ve been using it here at Mimeo ever since we started our 2.0/2005 migration and had great success wth it even in the beta stages. The differences between RC1 and Release are surprisingly big, but I […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
FormattedResourceExpressionBuilder: An enhanced resourcing solution for ASP.NET So we’re in the process of migrating our ASP.NET 1.1 application to 2.0. In 1.1 there was no intrinsic solution to handling resources baked into the ASP.NET runtime. With the advent of 2.0, we now how ResourceExpressionBuilder which allows us to very easily integrate resources into our ASP.NET “code-in-front” using a new expression syntax that looks […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
WPF Architecture Interview Here’s another video about WPF on Channel9, this time with Greg Schechter who is an Architect on the WPF team. No fancy demos here, just really good, low level geek talk (my favorite!) about what sits under the WPF’s hood that makes it possible for designers/developers to provide great experiences to their end users. Lots […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
3D Integration in WPF Here’s a great MSDN TV episode demoing some of the 3D capabilities in WPF. One of the greatest things about WPF, from the developer’s perspective, is that the programming model is consistent whether you’re working in 2D or 3D. From the designers perspective, the ability to seamlessly integrate 3D content with 3D content is priceless. Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Where the heck is Quartz? Quartz. You remember… that web development environment Microsoft demo’d at PDC ’05? Well, where the heck is it? It was the most immediately useful application out of the entire “Expression” suite of products and while there have been betas for Acrylic and even Sparkle, there has never been one for Quartz. What gives? Curious web […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
IE7 CSS Support Here’s a Channel9 interview with the IE7 team members responsible for fixing/upgrading IE’s CSS support in this latest version. I don’t care about new IE shell features as much as I do upgrades to the MSHTML rendering engine. IMO they’ve done a kick ass job, but I still have a hard time forgiving them for […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Limitation with Team Build with respect to TestRunConfigs I made a post to the Team Build forums about two weeks ago about the inability to use multiple .testrunconfig settings in a Team Build and, unfortunately, haven’t heard back from anyone on it yet. So I figured I’d post it here in case anyone else is stumbles across the limitation and is looking for help. […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
ASP.NET custom control with ParseChildren(false) not playing well in the designer or with WAP I just made a post to the ASP.NET forms for Web Application Projects about this because that’s where it’s affecting me immediately, but honestly I think it’s a bigger problem than that. Basically I’ve got an ASCX whose code-behind is marked with ParseChildren(false). I then use AddParsedSubObject to handle the adding of controls inside of that […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
VSS -> TFVC Conversion Completed So Mimeo has officially made the shift to VS 2005/.NET 2.0 this weekend. Part of that was cutting over to Team Foundation Server completely. We’ve been using TFS for about a month now with great success, but we’ve only been using the Work Item Tracking features thus far. This weekend, I finally migrated our Visual Source […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Why WPF exists This interview with Michael Wallent over on Channel9 is hands down the best public explanation I’ve ever seen/heard from Microsoft on why WPF was created and what some of the major goals and design decisions were. Some interesting tidbits that came out of the interview: Plans to make an WPF “scene” 100% scriptable for smoother integration with Web apps […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
