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February 2006 - Posts

• Contract First design (II)

  ThinkTecture created a tool to do Contract First Design using web services. I have blogged about this tool before and now ThinkTecture has released a version that supports Visual Studio 2005 and a lot of .NET 2.0 features. Get it here: http://www.thinktecture.com/WSCF Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 7:22 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding, Design

• Undo/Redo and WPF

  Brand new! A new part of my Windows Presentation Foundation Tutorials : RoutedCommands. How to use them, create them and a nice addition (if I say so myself): Undo and Redo functionality. This Undo and Redo caused me some pain because I found out that Read More... Posted Monday, February 27, 2006 2:30 PM by Erno de Weerd | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Debugging Xaml has been bugging me

  From the ReadMe that comes with the WinFX SDK (CTP February 2006): Xaml Runtime Parsing Exceptions: We still have a way to go before the design/compilation process for xaml files gets smoother. In our first version, we aren’t going to be able to do as Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 22, 2006 8:08 PM by Erno de Weerd | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Breaking changes in WinFX CTP February 2006

  See Karsten Januszewski's blog for an overview of the breaking changes in the February CTP of WinFX . (Let's hope there are a lot of new features and fixes as well!) Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 22, 2006 7:59 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Upgrading WPF sources to the February 2006 CTP

  In the February 2006 CTP a couple of changes have been made to namespace names in Xaml. this Wpf Xaml Namespace Update Tool for Feb2006 CTP helps you to parse your code and upgrade it. Of course I will upgrade all sources that are available on the WPF Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 22, 2006 6:50 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Downloading right now!

  The February 2006 CTP of WinFX is Windows right here ! (another night sleeplessness ahead :)) Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 22, 2006 6:12 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments

• C# power up.

  By installing the Visual Studio 2005 Code Snippets your get the same snippets as the VB.NET programmers have: Application Code Snippets Collections and Arrays Code Snippets Connectivity Code Snippets Crystal Reports Code Snippets Database Code Snippets Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 21, 2006 10:51 AM by Erno de Weerd | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• A bit old, but every bit sparkles

  In this interview with Steve Ballmer I see the passion I want my audience to see when I am busy presenting. Of course the technical bits are nice but I really like the way he wants to be remembered; having three sons myself, I couldn't agree more (by Read More... Posted Sunday, February 19, 2006 6:12 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: Training, Off topic

• Windows Communication Foundation: Getting started

  Tomorrow I will be presenting a seminar on WCF at Microsoft's. After many seminars on .NET technologies, ranging from Smart Clients, ADO, VSTO, WPF it will be nice to get into some very technical stuff again. I really like the way Microsoft has abstracted Read More... Posted Thursday, February 16, 2006 9:30 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Training, Coding, Design

• Security: the next step

  The WinFX API that will bring us the next generation of programming tools and environments will also give us Info card; a new way of managing identities. Read this guide to integrating with Infocard v1.0 Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 5:01 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding, Design

• If only I could get my wife and kids to move to the US…

  I wish… Job Details Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 14, 2006 10:36 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: Off topic, Game coding

• Passed!

  I just learned that I passed the 071-528: TS: Microsoft® .NET Framework 2.0 - Web-based Client Development exam! It is a beta exam but counts as the real thing towards certification. Still… I'm awaiting the results of three more exams I've taken and I've Read More... Posted Friday, February 10, 2006 9:59 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Training

• Designing a WPF application.

  As some of you have noticed I have started building a real WPF application . (More than a hundred visitors a day! I must be filling some serious gap in the internet). In this post I'll explain some, if I might add, very neat design options I have chosen Read More... Posted Thursday, February 02, 2006 9:50 PM by Erno de Weerd | 4 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding