Yesterday I had a had a chance to have dinner and drinks with another group here for a Technology Summit hosted by Microsoft. They get a bunch of representatives from parallel and alternate technology groups such as PHP, Linux, Java, Python, etc together and discuss they reasons for Microsoft decisions, show off Microsoft focused options [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Powershell
Mar 28
To avoid disappointing users after they’ve gotten as far as running your application on their 1997 300mhz Pentium II, determine their capabilities using the RenderCapability.Tier value before hand and notifying them that they’ll need to joing the 21st century before running your app. Henry Hahn has a quick overview and, the always welcome, code samples of [...]
You may have noticed there were not many blog entries for Day 2. It turns out there’s no way to ftp stuff out of the technology center. It’s hindering my ability to post with pictures/screen captures. I’ve got a bunch of posts for you as soon as I figure this out. Stay tuned.
Notes
Mar 27
Kevin Moore, Program Manager “Bag of Tricks” Templates vs Styles Beatriz de Oliveira Costa (Test Lead) Data Binding/DataTemplate INotifyPropertyChanged, INotifyCollectionChanged www.beacosta.com blogs.msdn.com/okoboji www.blois.us/snoop Exposing new “facits” (i.e. glow color on the button) as properties which can be stylized/template bound. WPF Partner Showcase Accruent Retail Store Lifecycle Manager Iconics Dassault Lectra EASY Infoworkz Tempworks Scripps Healthcare Skandia London [...]
The Speedy Rewards program is backed by two pretty hefty Oracle 9i RAC instances. One is for the OLTP and the other for data-warehousing analytics. Since it’s inception we’ve pretty impressive success with the uptime and performance, though one glaring problem has plagued us now for going on 4 years. Every 3 days, whoever is on [...]
This is pretty good stuff. One of the cool features of the WPF/Xaml structure is a way to define the visual structure (read: look) DataTemplates in WPF/Expression WPF Threading Model/Dispatcher and long running operations: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms741870.aspx New Rendering model (painters algorithm). More memory, draw off screen then move bitmap. Shapes vs Drawings (drawings lower level – no [...]
For those who don’t already know, I want to make it perfectly clear that I am the last person you would ask to design an appealling interface. Messaging, thread syncronization, etc I’m your guy, but pretty pictures I am not.
We moved past the introductions quickly and are getting down and dirty. Rob Relyea took us through the basics of WPF from the latest Visual Studio Orcas perspective. Starting simple by creating a button via Xaml and a duplicate example using purely C# code. I’ve posted a copy of the sample here for Visual Studio 2005 with the [...]
WPF Bootcamp Day 1
Mar 26
My co-worker Steve and I are here in Redmond this week for a WPF Bootcamp training session. We started off by meeting the WPF Product Unit Manager, Ian Ellison-Tayler, and Lead Program Manager, Rob Relyea. Ian ran through some existing WPF applications floating around the intersphere. As early as it is for WPF, there are some cool [...]
The multilingual family…
Mar 8
One of the things we have decided we really want to try with Little Ryan is Baby Sign Language. I’ve read a number of great first hand accounts and I’m really excited. Beyond the suggestions that family’s who’ve adopted baby sign language see a reduction in temper tantrums, I’m excited that I’ll have at least [...]