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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
This is a rather old one (dated June 1st 2007), but I feel this one deserves it: A three-hour webcast by FxCop creator Krzysztof Cwalina who now works at Microsoft on the design of APIs, a little post mortem on the development of the .NET Framework, etc.
You can download the not-so-small ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Again, there is a new drop for the Prism Reference Implementation. Get it here:
http://www.codeplex.com/prism/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=12226
At the current release intervals, it's hard to keep up ;-)
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
While implementing a little custom control (a radial panel, actually - stay tuned what it's good for...), I stumbled across a little problem when trying to add automatic behaviour.
Many built-in WPF Controls such as Canvas or Panel allow something like
Width="Auto"
Now, for my control I need something that accepts
AngleSpacing="Auto"
AngleSpacing=""
Of course, accomplishing ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
Huge thanks to Ilmar Kruis for implementing GetDeviceCaps() in the Tao framework! With some small modifications I suggested, one can now easily develop DPI-aware OpenGL applications using C# or .NET in general! Thanks Ilmar!
I will update my article on the CodeProject about OpenGL windows in Vista soon!
See http://www.taoframework.com/
Get the latest ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
During the last days, I stubled across a very annoying feature of Vista very often: The resource exhaustion manager. It tells me to close Visual Studio and the Destop Window Manager. OK, shall I close the lid of the computer and go to sleep, too?
However, the stituation gets worse when ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
A new Prism drop has just been released! See Glenn Block's post here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock/archive/2008/03/26/prism-drop-2.aspx
The direct link to the resource is
http://www.codeplex.com/prism/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=11976
Views are no longer added via AddViewToRegion(); rather, an IRegion can be requested and an Add method can be called to actually add the view.
Also, a sliding region has been added.
However, I ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Due to the very high resolution of my new laptop's display, I chose to increase its DPI so I could benefit from more readable text. Unfortunately, it turns out that there are still a number of problems:
o On 120 dpi, 11pt Segoe UI (Windows Vista's default UI font) will have ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Well, due to the hardware-hunger of some of the projects I am working on, it was certainly time for a new machine so I got myself a brand new ThinkPad T61p. Very nice indeed, with a crazy WUXGA display on just 15.4" - kewl! More pixels than you typically find on ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
As Glenn Block reports, the patterns & practices Team released a reference implementation of Prism on Wednesday:
http://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=prism&ReleaseId=11615
Very interesting read! While I'm still working with the 6267 release of prism, I'm gonna update my code and write about some experiences with it soon!
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
When trying to install the SmartClientSoftwareFactory May 2007 CTP, you may encounter some problems. Workarounds have been presented, for example by Ezequiel Jadib:
http://staff.southworks.net/blogs/ejadib/archive/2007/08/27/How_2D00_To_3A00_-Smart-Client-Software-Factory-_2800_SCSF_2900_-_2600_-Visual-Studio-Orcas-Beta-2.aspx
However, with the new February 2008 versions of GAX and GAT, SCSF Installation fails on my system (Vista Business) with some strange Error 2869.
Anyway, for those interested in the ...
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