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Getting more out of VS2010 Beta 2

A very interesting post on the new WPF and Silverlight designer (Cider) in Visual Studio 2010 . One of the things that stood out to me was this: “ The other piece of advice I would give you for Beta 2 is to make sure you’re running either Vista or Windows...

Published 09-01-2010 10:57 by Erno de Weerd

Filed under: .NET, Coding, WPF, Silverlight

Do you play?

A few years ago I advocated the addition of a Minister of IT to our government in a column. One of the main reasons for supporting this (or even being up for the position myself) is the apparent lack of thorough knowledge of information technology amongst...

Published 30-06-2009 22:43 by Erno de Weerd

Filed under: Coding, Design, Process

Sampling

Whenever you test it is vital that you pick correct test data. Suppose you need to verify that you implemented an Add method correctly and you test it by passing 2 and 2 to be added. There are many implementations that would respond with 4. Here are a...

Published 28-05-2009 9:07 by Erno de Weerd

Filed under: Coding, Design

Microsoft Silverlight

It's official! WPF/E has been named Microsoft Silverlight. (Yet another meaningless name...) Flash, eat your heart out! Link to Microsoft Silverlight

Published 17-04-2007 14:06 by Erno de Weerd

Filed under: .NET, Coding, Design, WPF

Microsoft DevDays 2007

(It has been too long... I am trying to get less clutter and more valuable info in my blog...) Last Friday I wrote my biography, a session summary and I sent them accompanied by my portrait to Microsoft as I will be doing a session on the Dutch DevDays...

Published 01-04-2007 11:41 by Erno de Weerd

Filed under: .NET, Coding

Be one of the first to download Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express 1.0

Today Microsoft releases XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 The official link and download page aren't there yet but after digging around I found a link[1]. Here's the official link[2] [1] Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 [2] Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express...

Published 11-12-2006 14:25 by Erno de Weerd

Filed under: .NET, Coding, Game coding, Design

More than just Dispose

In my previous post about using and Dispose[1] I touched lightly on the Garbage Collector. Indeed very lightly, I never mentioned it but Dispose is very much related to the GC. Today I found Chris Lyon's Weblog which contains excellent info on the GC...

Published 09-12-2006 9:43 by Erno de Weerd

Filed under: .NET, Coding, Design

Using, Dispose, Close and Connections

Please note that my explanation in this post is incorrect. I am sorry if I caused any trouble. In .NET 2.0 disposing the SqlConnection DOES return the connection into the connectionpool. In my experience .NET 1.1 acted differently; I will try to investigate...

Published 08-12-2006 11:57 by Erno de Weerd

Filed under: .NET, Training, Coding, Design

PowerGadgets

During the last few weeks I developed the idea that it would be nice to be able to pull Key Performance Indicators (KPI) data from a data warehouse to the desktop in gadget on the sidebar in Vista. I even asked some colleagues if there are any standard...

Published 05-12-2006 20:28 by Erno de Weerd

Filed under: .NET, Coding, Design

Expression - FAQ

As you might have noticed the Microsoft Expression Products[1] got their final names and a new addition. In true adherence to other naming schemes[2][3] they decided to give Interaction Designer a name that is 'easy' to recognize. I remember it by remembering...

Published 05-12-2006 6:41 by Erno de Weerd

Filed under: .NET, Coding, Design

Nuts

Today I have met Jason Olson[1]. I have been reading his blog ever since the gaming world was looking for the ultimate gameloop in managed code[2]. Like Jason I love game development and do 'normal' development for my work. This week he is teaching Longhorn...

Published 04-12-2006 21:10 by Erno de Weerd

Filed under: .NET, Coding, Game coding

Opening up Vista features using .NET

Eric[1] showed me a great summary of tricks that will let you use some new Vista API's from managed code[2]. Thanks Eric! [1] Eric [2] Vista-only features for the managed developer

Published 04-12-2006 9:02 by Erno de Weerd

Filed under: .NET, Coding

Running Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 on Windows Vista

Last Friday I gave a seminar on the requirements for the Vista Logo Certification[1]. During the talk someone suggested that the problems of running Visual Studio 2005 (and SQL Server 2005 as well) on Windows Vista can be fixed[2]. Although I haven't...

Published 04-12-2006 8:56 by Erno de Weerd

Filed under: .NET, Coding, Windows Presentation Foundation Tutorials (FKA: Avalon), Windows Communication Foundation

The Source for Java Technology Collaboration

Every once in a while there's a smirk on my face caused by something that I think is very funny but is overlooked by others. Today Sun announced a new Java community because Sun's Java platform is going Open Source. And here's my smirk: the site is called...

Published 13-11-2006 16:35 by Erno de Weerd

Filed under: .NET, Coding

.NET 3.0 Released!!!

.NET 3.0 (FKA WinFX) has been released. Go to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C2B1E300-F358-4523-B479-F53D234CDCCF&displaylang=en to get the SDK.

Published 07-11-2006 10:38 by Erno de Weerd

Filed under: .NET, Coding, Windows Presentation Foundation Tutorials (FKA: Avalon), Windows Communication Foundation, WPF, WCF

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More than just Dispose

Using, Dispose, Close and Connections

PowerGadgets

Expression - FAQ

Nuts

Opening up Vista features using .NET

Running Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 on Windows Vista

The Source for Java Technology Collaboration

.NET 3.0 Released!!!