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WPF - State of the Nation, January 2007
In celebration of the launch of Windows Vista (and of course, Windows Presentation Foundation), I...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/31/2007
Great WPF Applications #2: Electric Rain StandOut
Enumerating the applications that I'm going to showcase as part of this portfolio on my whiteboard...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/30/2007
Great WPF Applications #1: British Library Turning the Pages
I'm going to start off this series with a real blockbuster that was announced just this morning....
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/30/2007
The Daily Show's Take on Windows Vista
The BillG appearance was very funny... Stewart: What does the F12 button do - does it do...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/30/2007
Great WPF Applications: Introduction
So at last we're finally done. As of today, you can go to Best Buy, Amazon or countless other stores...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/30/2007
The WPF Wiki is Here...
Behind the scenes, Karsten and I have been developing a WPF wiki on a background thread, and I think...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/24/2007
WPF and WPF/E Bloggers List: Updated for 2007
For the last couple of years, I've undertaken the thankless task of trying to maintain a list of...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/08/2007
Comparing WPF on Windows Vista v. Windows XP
A question I'm often asked is, "what's different about WPF in Windows Vista compared to the version...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/05/2007
WPF Technical Chat: Transcript Now Available...
The week before Christmas, we had just over a hundred people show up for an online technical chat on...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 01/02/2007
Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation
OK, so you've just decided that WPF is the strategic technology of choice for your next-generation...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 12/20/2006
Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Compatible with WPF and WPF/E Templates
Just in case anyone was wondering, you're safe to install the service pack for Visual Studio 2005 on...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 12/19/2006
WPF Unleashed - New Book from Sams Publishing
If you're looking to learn WPF from a book, there are an increasing range of good choices out on the...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 12/18/2006
Microsoft Expression Launch Event
I'm presuming that almost everyone who follows this blog has at least one of the Expression design...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 12/18/2006
WPF Technical Chat: Thursday December 21st
Following on from a couple of requests, I'm delighted to announce that we'll be hosting our first...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 12/14/2006
The Microsoft Office Prank
It's a long-standing Microsoft tradition that when someone goes away for an extended period of...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 12/14/2006
New in WPF: Build a True 3D Application
Well, it's finally here. As mentioned yesterday, the WPF 3D team had a very special announcement to...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 12/13/2006
WPF in Three Dimensions
The WPF 3D team have just started a new team blog (covering the 3D APIs in WPF, obviously). These...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 12/12/2006
Installing the WPF/E Developer Environment on Windows Vista
Although the client runtime is an easy install, I came across a few quirks in installing the full...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 12/08/2006
The WPF/E Developer Environment
On Monday of this week, we introduced a "little brother" for WPF as we released the first CTP of...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 12/08/2006
Windows Vista Secret #11: Deleting the Undeletable
As many of us move forward from Windows XP or prior beta versions of Windows Vista to the final RTM...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 11/10/2006
Windows Vista Secret #10: Open an Elevated Command Prompt in Six Keystrokes
User Account Control is, as I mentioned in secret #4, an important part of the security protection...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 11/02/2006
A Sackful of WPF Tidbits
It's been a busy month for me, primarily due to the arrival of our third child (and our first...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 10/30/2006
Windows Vista Secret #9: Kill the Startup Monsters
If there's one thing that puts me off an application, it's when it unnecessarily inserts itself into...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 09/28/2006
New York Times Reader
I posted in June about the wonderful New York Times reader application, written entirely in WPF. I'm...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 09/26/2006
Windows Vista Secret #8: Zoom in Explorer
The awesome guys from the Windows Vista Magazine revealed a great Windows Vista secret recently that...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 09/26/2006
Preparing for Windows Vista
On a more practical note than my last blog posting, I want to encourage everyone to check out the...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 09/22/2006
Windows Vista Secret #7: The Oldest Component in Windows?
We go to fairly extreme lengths to try to maintain compatibility with older applications, as Raymond...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 09/22/2006
Windows Vista Secret #6: Running a Command Prompt During Setup
If you're doing a fresh install of Windows Vista, you'll probably use a bootable DVD so that you're...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 09/21/2006
Windows Vista Secret #5: Running Quick Launch Items
Saw this posted on one of the internal forums today, and I thought this was something that was worth...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 09/20/2006
Windows Vista Secret #4: Disabling UAC
If you're a reader of this blog, I'm going to take a low-risk gamble and assert that you probably...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 09/20/2006
Windows Presentation Foundation: Live on YouTube
Over the last week or so, I've had a couple of people point out some cool videos of WPF that have...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 09/19/2006
Windows Vista Secret #3: Bringing Back Start / Run
The Start menu got a big overhaul in Windows Vista, with a number of significant changes made as a...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 09/18/2006
Windows Vista Secret #2: Copy as Path
Ever wanted to copy a link from a network file share into an email, and wound up having to traverse...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 09/18/2006
Windows Vista Secret #1: Open Command Prompt Here
I don't know about your workflow as a developer, but I often find myself switching back and forward...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 09/18/2006
The Coolest Command-Line Tool in Windows Vista
Perhaps this is ironic for someone who has a heavy focus on beautiful client interfaces, but I've...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 09/07/2006
Windows Vista RC1 - Tools Ready...
It took a couple of extra days, but the Visual Studio and Expression tools are now ready with...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 09/07/2006
On the Glidepath to RTM
In large software development projects, the end-game is often compared to the act of landing a...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 09/01/2006
Registering as Charles Petzold's #2 Fan
I received a box through the internal mail today containing ten copies of Charles Petzold's new WPF...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 08/29/2006
The Power of the One Line Demo
Sometimes the simplest demos can be the best. Catherine Heller is our team expert on the myriad of...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 08/17/2006
WPF State of the Nation
We're in the home stretch after five long years of development. As we close in on the RC1 release of...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 08/13/2006
A New Look and Feel for Windows?
In an attempt to add some light-hearted humour to our series of interviews with the WPF team on...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 08/04/2006
Hot Off the Presses: WinFX June CTP Is Here...
So I'm glad to announce that the WinFX June CTP has just arrived; you can find the download for...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/23/2006
This is Not The WPF Blog...
...this is. I'm in awe of the cool demo visualizations that Lee Brimelow (author of the...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/02/2006
Twenty of the First Windows Vista Applications - Is Yours Ready?
Check out See Windows Vista if you haven't already to see twenty applications that give a glimpse of...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/02/2006
Read the New York Times with Windows Presentation Foundation
I wanted to link to this on10 video, which shows Kevin Gjerstad demonstrating the New York Times...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/02/2006
Which Colour Is Darker in WPF - Gray or DarkGray?
The answer might not be what you'd expect. In XAML, you can express colours in a number of different...
Author: Tim Sneath Date: 06/02/2006