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I’ve just came back from a trip to Washington DC , where I’ve been at the 50th IAM International Moving Annual Meeting . This was for my employer TellUs , who’s into lead generation for international removal companies. A lot of people asked for the reason why I went to the states, this is it. And of...
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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...
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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...
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As part of a kiosk application written in WPF, the client wanted 'Swipe'-like functionality similar to many touch-enabled smartphones. It's actually not that hard in .NET 4 and WPF. First, add a property to your page/control that keeps track of the Touch that the user has initiated to start...
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Hi, i don't know why this seemed not easy but here is how it goes Your XAML for the WPF Combo <ComboBox Name="ddlApplication" DisplayMemberPath="AppName" SelectedValuePath="ID" SelectedItem="App" Margin="92.709,56,220.46,0" VerticalAlignment="Top"...
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Ever had the feeling during your presentation that, while you were switching from Powerpoint to Visual Studio to show your demo, there must be an easier way? Like really integrating your demo into your presentation? Well, now there is! Thanks to WPF and Beatriz Costa. For more info go to Beatriz's...
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You probably already noticed that Microsoft has enabled access to the source code of parts of the .NET Framework 3.5. Here is the announcement of availability in case you missed it. And there are detailed instructions on how to enable this as well. This morning I started stepping into the Windows Presentation...
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Best wishes to everyone for 2008! In the first day of the new year, I've released version 0.9.0.0 of my Flickr Meta Synchr tool . You can always find the latest version on CodePlex . I had been working on this new version for a while now, but didn't get around to finishing it. Improvements in...
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After a long day and night of coding, I released version 0.8.0.0 of my Flickr Metadata Synchr tool on CodePlex this morning. I finally solved the long-standing problem I was having with the Windows Imaging Component (WIC) to update metadata. So this is the first fully-functional release of my application...
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Okay it's been all over, i'm like frekin busy these days but couldn't resist Acropolis which is the next Microsoft hit on the WPF space, and the support for Windows Forms wil be awesome. In my soul opinion .NET was one of the best project Microsoft have done, as it's behid the great stream...
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Some people use hyperbole to refer to the disclosure of Silverlight and CoreCLR by Microsoft at MIX07. April 30, 2007 has been called the day that will be remembered as the day that Microsoft "rebooted the web" . This might be true in more than one way. I was just reading the Silverlight SDK and was...
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WPF comes with great support for animation using XAML without needing to code this in for example C#. With Silverlight (fka "WPF/E") you can also do animations from XAML. If you want to perform custom animations in code that you can't do using XAML, you need timers. In the full blown WPF you have several...
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If you haven't heard the news yet, you must be living under a rock ;) There is a new CLR in town. Silverlight (fka "WPF/E") 1.1 comes with its own CLR. And the best news is that it runs both on the Mac and the PC. Go check it out at silverlight.net . One of the greatest achievements is that the download...
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Microsoft has announced that the little cross-platform, cross-browser cousin of Windows Presentation Foundation will be called Silverlight . This technology which was first announced at PDC05 was codenamed "WPF/E". Tim Sneath has the best list so far of the features and power of this "Flash killer" technology...
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Microsoft has some great news today: the new Expression Web (already RTM) and Expression Blend (RTM later in Q2 2007) tools will be included in the MSDN Premium Subscription. Soma announced this on his blog . This is the result from strong feedback from the developer community. Although I am not a graphical...