WPF Changes In June CTP WinFX June CTP was released recently and Tim Sneath put up a post with some details on some changes you can expect to deal with in this release. Nothing major thus far. Personally I’m all for breaking changes during the beta phase if they improve the API in the long run. 🙂 The coolest thing […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
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
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
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
WPF: Panels Finally Get a ZIndex Attached Property Karsten let us in on one of apparently only a few API changes in WPF Beta 2: the ZIndex attached property for Panels. A lot of people have been clammoring for this feature since day one. It used to be that the order of the child elements inside of the Children collection dictacted the ZIndexing, so […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Expression Interactive Designer May CTP Available for Download Wow, it’s a heck of a day for product releases. Now there’s a new May CTP of Expression Interactive Designer available for download. Designers of the world rejoice! ;P Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Office 2007 Beta 2 Available for Download In addition to Vista Beta 2 being made available for download today, Office 2007 Beta 2 is also available for download now. Knowledge workers of the world rejoice! 😉 Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Vista Beta 2 Available for Download Hate to do “me too” style posts, but, just in case you didn’t read it someplace else yet, Vista Beta 2 is now available for download. If you have an MSDN Subscription, you can also download it there. Windows geeks throughout the world rejoice! I just hope this build comes with drivers for my laptop’s […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
What is WPF/E? Well, for starters WPF/E stands for Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere. What’s that? Well, check out this Channel9 video to find out! 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
