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October 2008 - Posts

Presentation with Aaron Parker
At the Vista Squad event that happens on the 15th of October I'll be co-presenting on UAC with Aaron Parker .  He'll be doing the majority of the talk and I'll be presenting on why devs (or at least just me) develop in admin mode.  Hopefully Read More...
Silverlight 2 RTM 14 October 2008
Yes, finally we’ll have an RTM product to build with.  I cannot wait to finally have a stable API and something we can push to customers. More info at the press release with news that the RTM will be available to download on the 14th.  No news Read More...
Unit Testing and INotifyPropertyChanged
I’ve been busy with a Silverlight project where our models are all implementing INotifyPropertyChanged. I’m not a big fan of INotifyPropertyChanged because of the need to raise the event with the property name as a string. This can lead to numerous spelling Read More...
Reflector and Reflexil
I love Reflector. Nothing beats reading the source code of a closed library that you're having issues with to determine what is the cause. Or reading the .NET framework to better understand what is going on. I had the issue this evening of helping my Read More...
Silverlight Visual State Manager Series
Karen Corby has an awesome set of 4 blog posts on Visual State Manager.  She discusses what it does, shows us how to use states, parts and transitions and is a very informative set of posts. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Read More...
Remix UK 2008 Sessions are now available
Just posted up with the videos available for some of them.  Follow the link  to watch them.  Some of them only have the slides available with audio but altogether a great resource. Remix Sessions Read More...