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 [...]
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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 [...]
Our build process is pretty seamless all the way through to an Integration environment which sits right between Development (laptop/workstation) and Certification (keep your muddy paws off land). With this automation and continuous integration in general, comes a large amount of excess in the form of intermediate versions. During a recent upgrade to Window 2003 [...]
Here at my office we deploy new applications all the time to support our business. Each http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnnetsec/html/SecNetHT01.asp?frame=true
Well the Dayton-Cincinnati Code Camp and my presentation have both come and gone. In all, the day was a success, but I was a little disappoint in my session. Nothing in-particular went wrong, but I just never felt we got into a good flow. I feel exhaustion took a toll on my presence, but other [...]
Mono hits the road
Jan 11
It looks like Mono will finally be a valid option for deploying applications. Red Hat has announced that it will include Mono in its Fedora Core 5. Does that mean it will be in Red Hat as well? I couldn’t tell you since I don’t follow the Linux distributions to closely, but that would definitly [...]
Dayton-Cincinnati Code Camp
Dec 27
The final schedule for the Dayton-Cincinnati Code Camp to be held January 21st has been released. I’m really looking forward to Jim Weirich’s session on Ruby on Rails and the especially interesting Developing for Windows Media Center (with Xbox 360!) session by Jason Follas and Greg Huber. I’ll be following Mike Wood with a session on [...]