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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
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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
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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
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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
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Seeing a lot of this lately. Not great.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:
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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
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