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Attributes Every .NET Developer Should Know About

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:00:52 GMT

Here's a list of important .NET attributes that is commonly used in projects and proves very useful if you about them beforehand

Head Tracking and 3D WPF

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:45:00 GMT

Using a webcam to track head movement and manipulate looking direction and position in 3D WPF.

Next-Generation Rich Client with Vidyano

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:16:14 GMT

The Vidyano team just made the release candidate version of their next-generation in rich client software available. Applications build with Vidyano take advantage of technologies such as WPF, Workflow, LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework, Add-Ins, etc. Vidyano drastically reduces the complexity of these technologies by adding wizards, designers and custom tool generators to the Visual Studio environment.

WPF ICollectionViewExplained

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:31:23 GMT

Tips and tricks on ICollectionView for WPF Apps and how it can be used in M-V-VM

Some Managed/Unmanaged Exception Tricks

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:01:23 GMT

I just spent 5 days tracking down a Heisenbug. Historically, I've tracked down a lot of these but not because I create a lot of them, because I'm good at finding them. In this particular case, I had a set of unit tests that were failing on our build server but did not fail consistently on my machine. This is not a good sign to start with.

Create amazing looking full-blown WPF applications within minutes

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:01:02 GMT

The Viydano team just released their public beta, you can download it from the website for free. It allows you to create full-blown data-driven WPF applications within minutes, without sacrificing or limiting development freedom. This is their second release and going by the new features list, it looks like it came a long way since the last public CTP.

Becoming a Visual Studio Jedi Part 1

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:16:03 GMT

Peter discusses how to get your use of Visual Studio to the next level.

Real-Time Multilingual WPF Demo

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:16:11 GMT

Extend your WPF user interface with multilingual features. By adding a few markup extension to your xaml, your UI is translated in no less than 25 languages using the Google AJAX Translate API.

Creating full-blown WPF applications within minutes using Vidyano

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:31:03 GMT

Vidyano is a new product that allows you to literally create WPF applications, optionally running on top of Windows Workflow, within minutes. The July 2008 CTP, as well as a quickstart tutorial, just became available as public downloads. The screencast is a quick overview on some of Vidyano's initial features, it also shows you how to apply a workflow state machine as an engine behind a pagecontroller. More info and tutorials will become available in the upcoming days/weeks.

Image Post Processing Caching

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:46:04 GMT

This article present a small class library that abstracts opening, modifying (applying effects, resizing, etc.), and caching images in ASP.NET.

Web developers. You suck.

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:46:05 GMT

Well, JavaScript developers, specifically. In order to aid in development of my own websites, I enabled JavaScript debugging in Internet Explorer a few weeks back. To my horror, I have quickly experienced what seems to be complete disregard for serving syntactically correct JavaScript on the open internet. No, I'm not just talking about a few niche websites, run by amateur programmers. I am talking about industry-leading nerd-friendly powerhouse websites that should know better.

Wizards to the limit?

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:01:30 GMT

While looking for a visual studio addin, I came across this post announcing a program called vidyano. the speaker is building WPF-WF-Linq to SQL aplications with almost no code. Looking forward to see if this product wil, for ones, not limit our development freedom!

Negative Attitudes are a Cancer to Successful Teams

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:16:09 GMT

Team members with a negative attitude are thieves, robbing the team of its potential, its moral, and often its success.

Being Smart Does Not a Good Developer Make

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:31:08 GMT

Not every programmer needs to be a crazy mathematical genius who knows every algorithm and data structure known to man (although I think Steve Yegge would argue differently).