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Evolution of Windows Explorer
Tue, Aug 30 2011 3:05 PM

Nice post of Steven Sinofsky on MSDN blogs about the history and future of Windows Explorer. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/29/improvements-in-windows-explorer.aspx (edit 31-08-2011) And Martin Tirion of Microsoft Netherlands wrote about it a day later (in Dutch). http://blogs.microsoft.nl/blogs/ux/archive/2011/08/30/windows-explorer-in-windows-8... Read More...

by Andries van der Meulen | with no comments

Filed under: User Experience Design, Microsoft, Design, Windows 7, Ribbon, Windows 8

Datadrop Website Load Tool
Tue, Aug 23 2011 5:41 PM

In the last months I’ve experienced a lot of problems with my current internet connection. Due to mysterious reasons there have been data-drops at random times for random periods. I’ve contacted my ISP (Online.nl), and told them my story. But every time they’ve called me back, they said that they could not find the problem. My connection was always fine. Irritated... Read More...

by Andries van der Meulen | with no comments

Filed under: CodePlex, WPF, Ribbon, Website Load Tool

Storing and retrieving WPF RibbonWindow settings (including the usercustomizable QuickAccessToolbar)
Tue, May 17 2011 6:42 PM

When you’re creating a desktop application you'd probably want to store some user settings. Especially when using the Ribbon inside your application, there are several things (like RibbonIsMinimized and ShowQuickAccessToolBarOnTop ) that users can set and want to keep even if the application en closed and restarted. There are several ways to store these user... Read More...

by Andries van der Meulen | 3 comment(s)

Filed under: Microsoft, Interaction, WPF, QuickAccessToolbar, Ribbon, .NET