Posted:
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 10:54 AM
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Filed under: WPF, ObjectSharp, Tech Events, Tech, Canada, Microsoft, Location-based, Visualization, training
I’m excited to be launching a WPF training course through Toronto-based consultancy ObjectSharp. The course is called “Windows Presentation Foundation for Developers and Lead Designers,” and, as the title suggests, it offers a hands-on experience designed to give developers and lead designers the knowledge, background, tips and references they’ll need to build smart client [...]
Posted:
Thursday, May 15, 2008 3:59 PM
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robburke.NET |
Filed under: WPF, Silverlight, Tech Events, Tech, Microsoft, DevTeach, line of business, LOB, Prism, snippets, coding guidelines
Some WPF Line-of-Business App follow-up after my presentation at DevTeach today:
Great Snippets: Great code snippets I have installed into my Visual Studio for WPF development are the Dr Wpf and Nerd+Art snippet packs.
WPF Coding Conventions: The coding guidelines I use for WPF are a riff on Paul Stovell’s XAML and WPF Coding Guidelines.
Application Quality Guide: [...]
Posted:
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:06 PM
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robburke.NET |
Filed under: WPF, Silverlight, Tech, Microsoft, Photography, Visualization, .NET 3.5 SP1, futuristic interfaces, Shader Effects
This Channel 9 Video is so impressive, I couldn’t help but think that this is the closest we’ve come to allowing any creative team to invent and then build an interface like the futuristic ones imagined for movies like Minority Report or Iron Man.*
* minus the holography bits. although maybe some awesome researcher could come [...]
Greg is in the middle of writing a great explanation of how to build custom WPF 3.5 SP1 pixel shader effects on his blog. He helped me re-create his sample ColorComplementEffect, so I thought I’d offer a sample solution containing an end-to-end custom WPF Pixel Shader Effect using the .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta bits.
Download [...]
A “Week of WPF” begins on Channel 9 with the announcement that the third major release of WPF (3.5 SP1) has gone beta!
Tim Sneath’s blog entry has fantastic detail about what’s coming in this release and all the download/update details (Silverlighters: see caveat below).
Folks attending my “WPF for Line Of Business apps” presentation on Thursday [...]