WWDC Day 1: Vista Under Fire

Well, I’m back in my hotel after a big Day 1 at Apple’s WWDC. Before the keynote was even started, people gettig on line were greated by three huge banners promoting Leopard. Makes sense, this is after all the big unveiling, but what was more interesting is that the taglines for these banners, rather than […]

Miguel calls WPF the J2EE of GUI APIs

My friend Doug pointed me to Miguel’s post about WPF today where he calls it the J2EE of GUI APIs. While I’ve read some of Miguel’s previous posts about WPF, to make such a broad statement as this, you would think a person would back it up with some examples of exactly what about Avalon is so overly-complex, […]

Documentation is important… and WCF is hurtin’ in that department!

I’ve just begun implementing some web services with WCF and so I’m in the midst of learning the ins and outs of the API. First off, it’s phenominal as I’m sure you’ve heard if you already know if you’ve read about it before. What you might not know, if you haven’t played around with it […]

VS 2005 SP1 in September

Guess we can look forward to the first service pack for VS 2005 in Sept. For details, check out this page over on MSDN.

What the heck is XBAP?

Simply put, XBAP is the sandboxed, browser based application model for WPF. What’s that mean? Well head on over to Channel9 and watch this video to get all the nitty gritty details on the feature.

Creating Scrolling Tabs Using WPF’s TabControl

Someone posted a question in the WPF MSDN forums today where they wondered if it was “easy” to change the default stacking behavior of the TabControl to use the scrolling paradigm used in an application such IE7 or Visual Studio instead. It turns out this is actually very “easy” in that you don’t have to write a […]

Can’t wait for VSTE for DB Pros!

Run, don’t walk, over to Channel9 and check out this awesome demonstration of all the capabilities of Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals. Then click here to download the latest CTP which was released last week. While database projects weren’t amazing in VS2003, I was extremely frustrated that they absolutely crippled the feature in VS2005. […]

XAML Discussion on Channel9

I noticed via a post on Rob Relyea’s blog that an interview, with Rob himself, was posted over on Channel9 last night. The interview is all about XAML and how it works its magic. Why XAML? Is it compiled? If so, how does it get compiled? WTH is BAML? How does the code-behind get wired together? […]

Objective-C, object communication patterns and the Cocoa API

Yes, another Mac post. Is this nuts or what? 🙂 Anyway, I’ve been doing more work with Obj-C and the Cocoa APIs. Specifically I’ve been figuring out how to use NSAlert (the equivalent of MessageBox in WinForms) and also how to work with their networking APIs to do things like GET and POST. While these […]

I’m going to AWWDC

What… you don’t know what AWWDC is? Well, make sure you’re sitting down because this may come as a shock. It’s the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. *insert record scratching/squealing tires sound here* Seeing as how I’m like Mr. Microsoft when it comes to software the most common reaction to this is probably “Woahhhhhhhhhhh, what the…?!?” Well… […]

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