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Data Bondage in WPF presentation at Toronto Code Camp

My final presentation in my April World Speaking tour was at the Toronto Code Camp this afternoon. As always, the code camp was a huge success. The efforts of many people went into making it so, but the organization was top notch. As part of the lead-up Read More...

Design 101 – The Color Wheel

One of the most common comments from Silverlight and WPF developers is their lack of design sense. Over the next little while, I’ll be posting (interspersed with other topics) on some of the basics of color theory and how they can be applied to WPF and Read More...

Is WPF Dead?

One of the first questions that arose from the announcement of off-browser Silverlight was “What will happen to WPF?” The obvious source of this concern is that since Silverlight 3 can run either as part of a Web page or installed in an off-browser mode, Read More...

MIX ‘09 Keynote – Part 2

More stuff on the Web server side of the equation. There is a new version of the Web Platform Installer. This doesn’t have any impact on me, at least not in the past. But there is now a gallery of community-based applications, such as DotNetNuke, DasBlog Read More...

On the Road to MIX ‘09

I’m writing this particular blog post while in the air on the way to Las Vegas. For the next three days, I’m going to be at the MIX ‘09 conference. For regular readers of my blogs, that means you can expect a flurry of posts. I tend to live-blog the sessions Read More...

The Patch I Didn’t Even Know I Needed

I have been working with WPF and Silverlight pretty steadily for the past 6 months or so. And thanks to Rocky Lhotka , a problem that I didn’t even realize I had has been (probably) corrected. The problem was that occasionally Visual Studio would just Read More...

Changing Generated Code in VS2008

Have you ever been dissatisfied with the code that is automatically generated by Visual Studio in response to various commands that you perform. For example, in VS2005, I got used to using the prop snippet to create properties. This snippet created a Read More...

“Fixing” the WPF Designer

If you use WPF on a regular basis, then I can take a good guess as the esteem in which you hold the designer. While it has it’s place, hard code WPF devs using XAML directly. It’s much each to get the result that you’re looking for quickly. The problem Read More...

Walking the WPF Control Hierarchy

I just finished teaching a Silverlight/WPF course last week. As is true in almost every course I teach, there were questions from people who are trying to use the technology in the real world. It's what I love about teaching...that I always learn something Read More...

WPF Futures

I just got out of the WPF Roadmap talk. I found the future for WPF less interesting that the present, although that could very well because the speed of innovation coming from that group has been very high over the past couple of years. In fact, the 'roadmap' Read More...