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• Silverlight and the Mouse(Wheel) part II

  I wrote about Silverlight and the mouse(wheel) before and the responses are pretty good. One question that stuck to my brain and has been asked in forums is how to actually have controls like the ListBox respond to the MouseWheel event. First some code Read More... Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 3:03 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

• 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 Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2007 2:06 PM by Erno de Weerd | 2 Comments 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[1] Read More... Posted Sunday, April 01, 2007 11:41 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• WPF galore

  From Channel9. If you have .NET 3.0 installed, try the links marked with XBAP. (Thanks Eric!) Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista - New IM client ( SCREENCAST ). New York Times Reader - Next-generation online reading experience for the NY Times ( MSI ). Read More... Posted Monday, February 19, 2007 11:17 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Windows Presentation Foundation Tutorials (FKA: Avalon), WPF

• 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 Read More... Posted Monday, December 11, 2006 2:25 PM by Erno de Weerd | 3 Comments 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, Read More... Posted Saturday, December 09, 2006 9:43 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding, Design

• Visual Studio 400 Differences

  I just have to admire the effort they took to promote Visual Studio 2005. I really like #144, #156 and #195 videos. Link to Visual Studio 400 Differences Read More... Posted Friday, December 08, 2006 1:50 PM by Erno de Weerd | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET, Off topic

• 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 Read More... Posted Friday, December 08, 2006 11:57 AM by Erno de Weerd | 5 Comments 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 Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 05, 2006 8:28 PM by Erno de Weerd | 1 Comments 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 Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 05, 2006 6:41 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments 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 Read More... Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 9:10 PM by Erno de Weerd | 4 Comments 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 Read More... Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 9:02 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments 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 Read More... Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 8:56 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments 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 Read More... Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 4:35 PM by Erno de Weerd | 8 Comments 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. Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:38 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding, Windows Presentation Foundation Tutorials (FKA: Avalon), Windows Communication Foundation, WPF, WCF