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May 2006 - Posts

• Virtual Development and testing

  A very interesting article[1] about Development and Debugging using Virtual PC appeared on the MSDN. [1] Windows: Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 Development and Debugging Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 30, 2006 12:47 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• WPF: ScreenSpaceLines3D in the rebound

  While building my 3D Animation tool[1] I used a lot of ScreenSpaceLines3D[2]. Unfortunately Microsoft decided to remove them from WPF release 1[3] After complaining (begging even) Dan Lehenbauer[4] responded and today he released a new build of his ScreenSpaceLines3D[5]. Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 30, 2006 8:11 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding, WPF

• WCF: Breaking changes in Beta 2

  Whereas WPF appears to be faster and hardly breaking any code[1] WCF has some bigger issues[2][3]. [1] Changes in WPF beta 2 [2] WCF Breaking Changes between Feb CTP and Vista Beta2(RCO) [3] And more Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 24, 2006 6:33 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• WPF: Adding depth to your app!

  It appears that there aren't many breaking changes from the last CTP to Beta 2 of WPF and I love the addition of the ZIndex property[1]. [1] The ZIndex Property -- At Last! Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 10:08 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding, Design

• More Beta's!

  And, yes! They released Beta 2 versions of the Expression products[1] Graphics Designer and Interactive Designer at the same time. Wow, imagine a PC running Vista, Office 2007, WinFX all Beta 2 [1] Microsoft Expression - Home Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 10:05 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding, Design

• Vista Beta 2: good news for VPC

  Get a special version of the VPC Additions for Windows Vista beta 2[1] [1] Using Windows Vista / Longhorn Server Beta 2 on Virtual PC or Virtual Server Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 7:10 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• WinFX beta 2 is here! (And Vista beta 2 and Office beta 2)

  Go get them! http://msdn.microsoft.com/winfx/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/ http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/getthebeta.mspx Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 6:54 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments

• WPF: Exception handling suggestions

  XAML and Exception Handling is quite a tricky combination. And while I understand that it hard to design a robust and serving way of catching errors in XAML world it always feels a bit like way back when we had no exceptions; just breaking applications. Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 17, 2006 9:03 AM by Erno de Weerd | 3 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Microsoft must be psychic

  Yesterday I told Wouter[1] how I dislike not being able to Blog using Word without building a custom VSTO solution. Today this[2] [1] Wouter [2] Blogging from Word 2007 Read More... Posted Friday, May 12, 2006 12:32 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: Coding

• Microsoft Exams Visual Studio 2005

  MCPTS… MCPD… upgrading from MCAD and MSCD .NET If you are confused about the new certifications that have been and are being launched this year, try reading this blogpost[1] Why doesn't Microsoft publish this kind of information more clearly is beyond Read More... Posted Friday, May 12, 2006 9:31 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Training

• WPF: Printing an XPS document

  Read this post[1] to find out how easy it is to print a WPF Visual to an XPS document. [1] Printing in WPF (XPS) Read More... Posted Friday, May 12, 2006 8:53 AM by Erno de Weerd | 2 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Ruby: programming in Visual Studio 2005

  Thanks go to Don Box[1] for pointing out[2] a very nice way to edit and debug Ruby code in Visual Studio 2005[3] [1] Don's blog [2] Sapphire in Steel: Ruby in VS [3] Sapphire In Steel Ruby Programming with Visual Studio 2005 Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 09, 2006 1:11 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• WPF: Vista and Glass

  Read this post[1] to learn how to use Glass in WPF on Vista. Now I can't wait any longer for Beta 2… I want it now! [1] Aero Glass inside a WPF Window Read More... Posted Friday, May 05, 2006 4:42 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding, Design

• MSBuild examples

  And just in case you are wondering how to write MSBuild scripts after reading my previous post[1]; do what I did: check out some examples[2] provided by Microsoft. [1] Building ASP.NET 2.0 Web projects [2] MSBuild Preview Quickstart Tutorials Read More... Posted Thursday, May 04, 2006 9:48 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Building ASP.NET 2.0 Web projects

  Using Visual Studio 2005 to build Web applications felt a bit uncomfortable until now. My biggest issue with VS2005 is the new project structure. I really liked the single DLL deployment way of VS 2003 but by default VS2005 creates a DLL for each page. Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 03, 2006 10:24 PM by Erno de Weerd | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• WCF: connecting through NAT and Firewalls

  Read this interesting article[1] on WCF and how to configure WCF for NAT and Firewalls. [1] Configuring WCF for NAT and Firewalls Read More... Posted Monday, May 01, 2006 4:47 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments

• Tutorials can be discussed!

  I have added a forum[1] to my tutorial site[2]. It is not my intention to create yet another development community but to provide a place to discuss the tutorials on my site. [1] Airknow.com Forums [2] Airknow.com Read More... Posted Monday, May 01, 2006 4:27 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments

• WPF: new tutorial on building a UserControl

  Last weekend I created a simple UserControl that shows how to rewrite the UI of a Slider control. It's a new tutorial called UserCOntrol on my tutorial site[1] (Check out the screenshot I added!) [1] Airknow.com Read More... Posted Monday, May 01, 2006 3:32 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments