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WPF TextBox with Watermark
WPF has simply the most powerful templating and visual engine that is available at the moment for designing your UI.  A requirement came up in a project that required a watermarked textbox for displaying some contextual help. With WPF this becomes Read More...
Latest MSDN Events
Michael Lonnon has just provided us with the latest MSDN half-day Roadshow events that are taking place in February 2009.  Its a sneak peak before the official announcement goes out on Wednesday, so head on over to sign up now. Find out about all Read More...
How Azure Works
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Silverlight Reading
Thought I'd put together a post of some good Silverlight blogs for your reading pleasure.  Awesome Silverlight SDK Blog Scott Guthrie Laurence Moroney Silverlight Cream Tim Heuer Jesse Liberty Read More...
Code Available from MVVM Talk
As promised, I've uploaded my code and slides from last night's talk at Nxtgen Cambridge.  Many thanks to Chris Hay for allowing me to spout my MVVM pattern talk at the guys.  I hope it was enjoyable and you managed to learn something from the Read More...
Blend June Preview
Seeing a lot of this lately.  Not great. Read More...
Event Reminder
Just a reminder to all you WPF and Silverlight developers out there that I'm presenting at Nxtgen Cambridge on the MVVM pattern. We will look at how to design a WPF application and spend quite a lot of time deep in code. I have one more space in the car Read More...
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...
VBUG.NET ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2008
From Tim Leung: "We’re holding our VBUG annual conference at Thames Valley Park on the 4th/5th November. It’s £399 for non VBUG members and our international speakers include Ken Getz and Roy Osherove. The topics covered will include: Read More...
VS/VSTS/TFS/.NET 3.5 SP1 have all shipped!
Everything all of it! Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions with Service Pack 1 (Bootstrappers) Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions with Service Pack 1 (iso) Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (Bootstrapper) Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (iso) Visual Read More...
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