blog community

January 2006 - Erno de Weerd

Sort by: Most Recent | Most Viewed | Most Commented

  • They're here!!!!

    Whohoo! The Microsoft Expression products, Sparkle and Acrylic, got their official names: Interactive Designer and Graphic designer. Download them here: Microsoft Expression - Home And don't forget: they need the WinFX 2006 Jan CTP!
    Filed under: , ,

  • My Favorite(s)

    I have been using a little program that I wrote to sync my Internet Explorer Favorites across several machines. I won't trouble you with all the nice features I wrote because today I am dropping my tool. I really like a new (beta) service from Microsoft...

  • Some recent history

    As I have taught Sybase SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Server courses this post provides some very nice historical background information.

  • WinFX update (not)

    As I mentioned before the new CTP (01 2006) contains no changes concerning WPF. Even Cider hasn't been updated. However Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation did get updated and even have a go-live licence! In the near future...

  • Versioning Xaml

    In this post you will find a very clear explanation of Xaml versioning.
    Filed under: ,

  • WinFX January CTP released

    It's here! I'm not that cheerful about it because it seems that Windows Presentation Foundation is binary compatible… no changes there I guess… I wonder whether the Orcas parts are better (like Cider and stuff) Also it's an English only version (no problem...
    Filed under: ,

  • I couldn't resist…

    Being a blonde myself: this is the best Blonde Joke ever!
    Filed under:

  • Small change to the fullscreen WPF tutorial

    I changed (or rather added to) the fullscreen tutorial of my Windows Presentation Foundation Tutorials . When you move the slider, the content of the window is being scaled up and down. this is a pretty nice trick that is used in Cider but is also very...
    Filed under: ,

  • What do you want?

    Take a look at these numbers: Perc. Search Term 20.00% avalon tutorial 10.00% windows presentation foundation tutorial 6.67% wpf visual studio 2005 6.67% information bridge framework or vsto 6.67% access provider asp.net toolkit 6.67% printable images...
    Filed under:

  • WPF tutorial at your service

    Added a "How to create a full screen windows with WPF" to the Windows Presentation Foundation Tutorials . It is not that difficult, you just set two or three attributes of the Window to set the border style, size and z-order.
    Filed under: ,

  • Yet Another WPF Tutorial

    The newest addition to the Windows Presentation Foundation Tutorials is a tutorial that shows how to create a classical heightmap in 3D. I used the old and famous WinFract ( FractInt for Windows) to generate the heightmap and the texture. Screenshot:
    Filed under: ,
Powered by Community Server (Commercial Edition), by Telligent Systems