WPF at the Movies: Follow-Up Links

It was great to be part of ObjectSharp’s VS2008 at the Movies event this morning. Thanks to all of you who braved a quintessentially Canadian snowstorm to be there! My favourite part of the WPF/Silverlight presentation was being able to show some of the work ObjectSharp has been doing with WPF and .NET 3.5 at Thermo [...]

Learn WPF by example (a recipe)

Ever wonder how the experts build clever things into their WPF applications? Here’s one way to find out which uses a few of my favourite tools for building WPF and Silverlight apps. Required Ingredients: 1. Snoop, an excellent utility that lets you visualize and probe a running WPF application. 2. Lutz’s tried and true Reflector utility, which [...]

O# at the Movies

  I’ve been knee-deep in code for the past month, and in the process I’ve refined my proverbial code pipeline and learned heaps about what it’s really like to build line-of-business WPF applications with Visual Studio 2008. So I’m excited to have the chance to talk WPF and Silverlight at ObjectSharp’s “VS2008 at the Movies” event on [...]

UX Matters

Sometimes I feel like a characature of myself when I’m “evangelising” the importance of good user experience. It’s not the glitzy interfaces I’m talking about, it’s the functional ones that inspire me. Of course, functional user experience isn’t limited to the computer screen, and I’ve never seen an image that epitomised this better than the [...]