This evening the Central Ohio .NET Developers Group was nice enough to let me present on WPF. Everything went fairly well, though it was more a test of my efficiency in WPF development than I had planned; I managed to leave behind the external hard drive that had my code-snippets, slides (both of them), and [...]
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Lap Around WPF @ CONDG
Sep 28
If you happen to use CodePlex as I do, I hope you found Team Explorer for Visual Studio 2005 to be a huge productivity boost. With Visual Studio 2008 it wasn’t entirely obvious to me how to replicate this setup. It turns out that Team Explorer can be installed individually from the Visual Studio Team [...]
I’m working on a WPF app for my wife who coaches our local high school track team. One of the features she wanted was to have some images for different players and teams and, religious debate aside, I have chosen to save these in SQL Server 2005. I’m using NHibernate for all my data access which has [...]
WPF ScaleTransform Direction
Jun 28
The key to scaling your WPF elements in a specific direction other than down and to the right are the CenterX and CenterY properties of the ScaleTransform. It’s easy enough to set these manually, but that’s just lazy and asking for long term trouble. Instead, decide how you want it to animate and bind it [...]
One of my play projects with WPF is a photo viewer for the pictures we put out on http://cromwellhaus.com. One of the views is a montage of the latest photos with a random RotateTransform Angle applied to each image’s RenderTransform. Getting the view itself set up as cake, but when I attempted to apply the random angle [...]
While up in Redmond for the WPF Bootcamp, we had a short time to work with some of the WPF/E, now Silverlight, team members. At the time Silverlight didn’t make a whole lot of sense in our strategy. That said, I hope everyone sees the great potential that comes from some of the features surrounding Silverlight 1.1 specifically. Let’s [...]
Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1
Apr 20
The last few weeks I’ve felt like a little intern again. With the WPF Bootcamp and the early stages WCF integration into the Speedy Rewards messaging infrastructure (I’ll be posting on this soon), I’ve had lots of time to play with .Net 3.0 stuff. For those that have had a chance to fiddle, there are two feasible options at this [...]
In the Speedy Rewards team here we use custom PerformanceCounters quite extensively to monitor and trend our host systems. You may not know, but our rewards program implements real-time host integration for transactions that are Id’ed as a SpeedyRewards member such that systems like the in-store kiosk, www.SpeedyRewards.com, and any other store you may soon visit can accurately [...]
One of the cool tools we had a chance to use while up at the WPF Bootcamp in Redmond was Expression Blend. While there I became pretty engrossed in the ease with which you could create fairly cool animations without an intimate knowledge of Xaml. This made it all that harder to leave seeing as [...]
[Update: These are being posted due to the ftp access restrictions at the Microsoft Campus] Today has been pretty intense which has kept me away from blogging “live”. Today started with Kevin Moore, Program Manager for WPF/Blend(?), and a lightning round with Expression Blend. As I mentioned yesterday, I’m not a designer, so Kevin had my [...]