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September 2005 - Posts

• Encrypting settings in a config file.

  In .NET 2.0/Visual studio 2005 there is a new (and easy) way of keeping application settings. In VS 2005 you can simply enter key-value-type pairs and it will generate code that reads, saves and updates your settings for you. Now with each settingsproperty Read More... Posted Sunday, September 25, 2005 3:43 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• WPF article

  A very informative MSDN article on Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon) Read More... Posted Thursday, September 22, 2005 9:57 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET

• Out

  The coming week this blog will be quiet. I'm attending the PDC in Los Angeles . Expect lots of info on VSTO and Windows Presentation Foundation (fka Avalon) when I return. LA here I come! Read More... Posted Thursday, September 08, 2005 4:33 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Using a set of fonts in a .NET Windows Form application

  While trying to find an answer to a question in a forum that I visit regularly I found this article: Creating a Private Font Collection It explains a very nice feature for Windows Forms applications concerning the use of fonts. Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 06, 2005 12:43 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Printable images on web pages

  Not only a very interesting topic with valuable information but also a very well designed page: High-Resolution Image Printing Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 06, 2005 8:00 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: Coding, Design

• I knew it! I always knew it!

  Curious as I am, I sometimes trace the way people find this blog. The words they enter in Google or MSN search are tracked so I know what the my audience (you) is interested in. Today someone from Belgium Googled for Weerd game and there my blog turned Read More... Posted Monday, September 05, 2005 5:03 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: Off topic, Game coding

• Designing a User Interface

  A very good site on UI Patterns and Techniques Read More... Posted Monday, September 05, 2005 8:48 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: Design

• Information Bridge Framework and VSTO

  Last week I taught a class about the Information Bridge Framework and about VSTO . Now IBF isn't that well-known so to share my sources of information I hereby publish my set of links that allowed me to get started with these two. I know that there is Read More... Posted Friday, September 02, 2005 11:21 AM by Erno de Weerd | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET, Training

• Quick start WPF

  Excellent introduction to WPF: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Windows Presentation Foundation Beta 1 Release Read More... Posted Thursday, September 01, 2005 12:40 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET