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October 2008 - Willem Meints

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  • C# 4.0 language features

    The .NET framework 4.0 may be far away now, but Microsoft is working really hard to complete the bits. I wasn't going to write about this, but after reading the information on the C# future page on MSDN I found it hard not to soak it all in and provide...
    Published 28-10-2008 19:41 by willemm
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  • Photoviewer part 3 – Fixing memory leaks

    In a comment on part 2 about the photoviewer application Erno pointed out a problem with my photoviewer application. It uses some serious memory and it doesn't really clean up after itself. This already caused some frowns on my end with an album containing...
    Published 22-10-2008 21:50 by willemm
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  • Photoviewer part 2 – Creating the collage view

    You might be wondering, what is he talking about? Was there a part 1 about this application? Yes there was and it wasn't actually called part one. It was an article about custom windows in WPF and how I made one myself for my photoviewer application...
    Published 21-10-2008 20:11 by willemm
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  • JQuery will be included in ASP.NET

    There's is some good news on the web front. Microsoft will be including JQuery in ASP.NET, there is even going to be intellisense support for this great library. Microsoft will be posting an update to visual studio with the intellisense support in just...
    Published 20-10-2008 8:30 by willemm
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  • Google search sample in silverlight

    Looks like I caught the silverlight virus after all. I can't help it, it's fun and very easy to learn especially if you have existing WPF skills. Yesterday I took a moment to produce a google search sample in silverlight. In this article I want...
    Published 16-10-2008 11:37 by willemm
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  • Silverlight 2.0 RTM

    Sometimes release dates come swooshing by so fast that I miss them. Silverlight 2.0 is one of them, appearantly Microsoft released it in the last few days. I don't know what is changed, but its there and I'm pretty sure I'm going to try it...
    Published 14-10-2008 18:11 by willemm
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  • Chart designer for silverlight

    Erno did a great presentation about silverlight 2.0 last night. He showed what features are available and did a demo of a simple products picker that he skinned live during the presentation. One of the things that people asked about were charts in silverlight...
    Published 09-10-2008 13:43 by willemm
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  • Custom Windows in WPF

    In my spare time I have been working on a photoviewer application. The main reason for spending time on this project was to check out the functionality offered in Composite WPF and WPF in general. This is sort of a way for me to discover what is missing...
    Published 07-10-2008 21:00 by willemm
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  • Cool WPF Demos

    I'm a very big fan of the new effects library in WPF. I don't have much experience in 3D, but with the new effects library even I can create some pretty cool things in WPF. There are quite a few videos on this topic on channel9 this week and the past...
    Published 07-10-2008 8:55 by willemm
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  • Visual studio speed tip: Taking out the trash

    Since a couple of weeks I have been having quite a delay when deleting files in visual studio. First I thought it was my Visual Studio installation, but I had the same weird delays on my machine at home. After frustrating myself once at home by reinstalling...
    Published 02-10-2008 21:16 by willemm
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