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UX into the business mainstream
At the UX workshop I had a chance to talk with UK ISV's and see and discuss there approach into UX. MS are working hard to help them visualize how they can push the UX in there applications with WPF. Sometimes that's hard when you see consumer facing...
Posted: Apr 13 2006, 11:42 AM by astopford | with no comments
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WPF has a learning curve
Karsten hits the nail on its head with this post about the WPF learning curve . No doubt that WPF is a very powerful framework indeed, when you start simple you feel productive but as you dig deeper and deeper the curve gets steeper and steeper. As he...
Posted: Apr 06 2006, 10:19 AM by astopford | with 1 comment(s)
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WPF images over http issue
I have a lot instability with images over http and have tried a lot of different things to get to the bottom of it. In the end I gave up and tried a post on the forums , it turns out that this is a known issue and should be resolved beyond it.
Posted: Apr 03 2006, 01:33 PM by astopford | with no comments
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WPF perf blog and WPF perf tool thoughts
Really good to see a perf blog for WPF, welcome Tim Cahill , subscribed! In terms of ideas for WPF performance tools I would like to see ways of looking at peformance of several points in my appliation. Time to load data from an external source such as...
Posted: Apr 03 2006, 01:30 PM by astopford | with 1 comment(s)
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Watch for the WPF sandbox
If your coding a WPF app as a windows app and thinking about allowing it to work in the browser then be aware of the sandbox, this limits certain chunks of functionality for security reasons. This whitepaper is worth printing out and keeping to one side...
Posted: Mar 28 2006, 09:30 PM by astopford | with no comments
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WPF\E Code walkthrough
Microsofts Michael Harsh has the details .
Posted: Mar 28 2006, 09:25 PM by astopford | with no comments
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WPF Imaging on C9
Nice video from C9 showing some of the folks on the WPF imaging team , good to see Tim Sneath doinng thr rounds on this one. Here's hoping we get to see more of Tim and Erine showing us the folks on the WPF team.
Posted: Mar 07 2006, 02:32 PM by astopford | with 1 comment(s)
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Zam 3D
I had a bit of play with Zam 3D, its a very cool tool for 3D manipulation and animation , when combined with EID you can do some really nice animation. I would like to see Feb CTP support, it runs ok but the export is borked unless your running Dec\Jan...
Posted: Mar 06 2006, 02:38 PM by astopford | with 1 comment(s)
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Todays XAML pointers
Great WPF tips and tricks blog from Chaz UISpy not in the Feb CTP and won't work with the Jan CTP , lets hope this makes a quick return. Binding to ado.net sample from Beatriz .
Posted: Mar 06 2006, 12:14 PM by astopford | with 1 comment(s)
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Opase windows in WPF pt2
Further to my post on creating a borderless (opase) window in WPF , check out this widget sample from Unni. I shows how to use this approach and with code that has code behind files. Check out the Application.cs file in the sample code.
Posted: Mar 02 2006, 09:49 AM by astopford | with no comments
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