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XAML guidelines part 3
There were 3 goals to the XAML guidelines series: Show that there is not a single right answer (that...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 01/13/2009
catching up on all the blog posts and announcements from the holiday break..
First of all, best wishes for your 2009. I am a bit late to with the good wishes, and even later...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 01/13/2009
XAML practices series, part1
If you ask any of the XAML practitioners about the XAML best practices on organizing a project,...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 12/16/2008
Forwarding the DataGrid’s DataContext to its’ columns..
DataContext is a very handy inherited property on any WPF...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/22/2008
Microsoft Client Continuum in action: The Silverlight toolkit charts, running in WPF
The Silverlight toolkit CTP released at PDC includes some new charting functionality (Column,...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/17/2008
Eight WPF themes released…
Today, Rudi Grobler released a “WPF Themes Pack” on codeplex. The project includes eight...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/12/2008
NY Times ReaDER Free Edition..
One of my favorite WPF apps is the NY times reader.. but a while ago they started charging a...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/11/2008
WPF DataGrid RTMs.. and Ribbon Preview..
Today, on codeplex we released updates to the WPF Toolkit. This release includes: RTM, V1 version of...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 10/28/2008
Announcement: WPF Pixel Shader Effects Library on codeplex..
We just published a codeplex project with source for > 25 Pixel Shader effects and ~35 Transition...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 10/03/2008
Great WPF applications: Lawson’s Smart Office
Earlier in the year, you might have seen screen shots of Lawson’s Smart Office application. Now,...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 09/02/2008
Inside the PDC2008 Pre-conference sessions..
Last week I recorded a PDC CountDown video about the Pre-conference seminars at PDC2008. Going into...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 08/26/2008
Client profile explained..
As I mentioned on the SP1 cheat sheet, client profile is an exciting new deployment feature in...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 08/21/2008
On WPF reference applications and the new location for the WPF Hands-on-lab for building the Outlook UI?
Tim is OOF and his automated response forwards WPF requests to me.. want to know the...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 08/18/2008
cheat-sheet to some of the WPF 3.5 SP1 features..
.NET 3.5 SP1 buzz peaked very early at the beta. At the time I was immersed in Silverlight, so...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 08/15/2008
Datagrid (part3): styling.
In this third and final part of the datagrid series ( part1, part 2) we get into styling the...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 08/13/2008
datagrid (part 2) -- Show me some code.
In part 1, I walked through some of the features in datagrid. The source for the series is here. In...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 08/13/2008
dabbling around the new WPF datagrid (part 1)
On Monday, the WPF team released the CTP of their new datagrid control. You can download it from...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 08/13/2008
Working with Collections in Deep Zoom.
In the Deep Zoom run-time, you can load two types of compositions: A single image composition is...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 06/24/2008
Installing Silverlight no longer requires a browser re-start… woohoo!!!
A few weeks ago I noticed changes in browser's behaviors… 1) My IE 7.0.6000 no longer prompts for...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 05/03/2008
Only two weeks to go until WPF Codecamp in North Carolina ( May 17)…
On May 17, Karl Shifflett and Josh Smith present their “WPF Multi-Tier Business...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 05/01/2008
Viewbox for Silverlight2
Viewbox is a pretty handy 'container' in WPF.. It is a decorator that scales its child...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 04/29/2008
Some of the Silverlight blogs I read..
This one got stuck on my drafts on 4/10… sorry … (FYI, I am back from my...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 04/29/2008
built-in Styling and generic.xaml
Most people already know (from ScottGu’s blog post for example) that in Silverlight 2 you can...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 04/08/2008
Silverlight instantiation on 2.0
On my Deep zoom Post, I recommended that for Deep Zoom applications you instantiate the control...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 04/03/2008
Open source charting library for Silverlight 2..
Visifire has a free, open-source library for 2D and “3D looking” charts built using...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 04/02/2008
A deepzoom primer ( explained and coded)..
I had to learn DeepZoom recently and along the way I put together some handy notes .. below are the...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 04/01/2008
Microsoft's "client" strategy for next few years became real at MIX08 ( and is incredibly exciting if you ask me) ..
Below are my scribbles during my flight back from MIX. I considered not publishing this because it...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 03/17/2008
A carousel control in Silverlight 2...
Check it out here... Source is here! It is very little code so I did not do a write-up. The code...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 03/17/2008
A sample on referencing URIs..
Ashish did a great job with his demystifying URIs.. post. I spent a bit of time discussing this...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 03/14/2008
Silverlight in Financials Demonstrator
Yesterday at the Financial Services Developers Conference in NY, Marley Gray & Joe Cleaver...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 03/13/2008
MIME Types
I often know I need a mime-type ( e.g. .deploy or .xaml ).. Extensions are easy, but the types are...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 01/04/2008
browser navigation and RIAs..
bear w/ some early (and wishful) thinking ... I have a great RIA, with navigation inside of it (i.e....
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 01/04/2008
Just added Mole to my .NET toolbox..
Mole is a very handy visualizer for Visual Studio (.NET) developers. I am late to try it, because it...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 01/02/2008
Explaining the Firefox Warning: Unresponsive script for Silverlight 1.0 apps..
I posted before on the "firefox unresponsive script warning" but enough people have asked off-line...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 01/01/2008
dr. wpf rocks..
Today, Karsten mentioned Dr. WPF.... I am embarrassed to admit I did not know about this...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 12/21/2007
too much System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComException ?? :(
Lately, I have been seeing System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException quite often when I launch...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 12/20/2007
WPF in Line of business applications ( aka "WPF DID GO to work")
In a recent family trip, my brother-in-law hooked me up w/ a magazine for the long plane ride; it...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 12/18/2007
Am I ready for WPF.. do I need it??
This is part 3 of the 'WPF in Line of Business series' .. I do recommend part1 (for inspiration from...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 12/18/2007
WPF in Line of Business, Why and where..
Introduction/Disclaimers: This is part 2 in the "WPF in LOB series". This is not meant to be a...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 12/18/2007
WPF in Line of business case studies..
Note: these are just a few of the case studies for WPF in Line Of Business; to see more ( or a...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 12/18/2007
Expression Media Encoder video player template debug code posted...
Creating a Silverlight 1.0 video player using Expression encoder is incredibly easy ( 3 clicks and...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 12/17/2007
Lotsa tools goodies released recently...
Lots of tools released recently.. here are my lessons learned after not reading the manual :(...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 12/12/2007
"The New iteration" a paper on designer/developer collaboration using XAML...
Karl (of mole fame) emails me about "The new iteration" article that Karsten and I wrote a while...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 12/07/2007
reusing animations in Silverlight 1.0
I have seen a few people create lots of animations to animate different objects instead of reusing...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 12/05/2007
world aids day is today...
Most of the time I live in a 'shoe box' not knowing what is going on outside of my family and work;...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 12/02/2007
Requiring the Silverlight 1.0 Service Release..
Mike Harsh announced recently the first Service release for 1.0. The release includes perf...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/28/2007
Silverlight templates for VS 2008...
If you are running VS 2008 "Orcas" RTM .. you will need the "Silverlight Tools refresh for Vsisual...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/26/2007
Javascript controls for Silverlight 1.0
I have been involved in a handful of Silverlight projects where we ended up reinventing buttons,...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/26/2007
SLx01
I am dogfooding Silverlight Streaming Services via IFrame below.. If you don't see an Iframe w/...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/25/2007
Designing and implementing a Silverlight Control Library..
I have been involved in a handful of Silverlight 1.0 projects lately, so I think is time to...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 11/25/2007