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At PDC09, we discussed that our direction was to invest in improving the Silverlight XAML parser. We didn’t announce a timeframe, but I’m happy to see that this work successfully made it in time for Silverlight 4! David Poll, the Program Manager...
Developers often find some benefit by implementing an override for ToString(). I believe that we could make providing a DataTemplate in generic.xaml very beneficial as well. First we have to start a beneficial cycle… What could be done with it: Apps that...
Happy to see that we’ve finally released a few key facts on Windows Phone 7’s developer platform: Silverlight and XNA will be used to create Applications and Games for Windows Phone 7 Series - Charlie Kindel’s blog post “ Different Means Better with the...
I’ve been exploring XamlPad and XamlDesigner features built on top of .NET 4. I plan to ship a XamlPad+ sample soon. After that, I’d like to provide guidance and/or small samples for all of the other steps to enable the Xaml Tools out there to continue...
I’m considering this for my rowing team so that our coach could easily share video, with his comments, to the entire team. (anybody have a cool app for that, or something similar, already? perhaps a WPF commenting engine with a Silverlight player?) David...
Now that the PDC is over, I’m staying very busy helping to move XAML in .NET 4 and Silverlight 4 forward. Wanted to take a quick second to point towards a few good questions and answers about Silverlight and WPF. With the recently released Silverlight...
Best Week Ever This may have been the best ever week for XAML UI. I’m smiling! WPF 3 & WPF 4 I was excited about several exciting applications for Windows (built with WPF) shown or announced during PDC09 this week: 1) Microsoft Visual Studio...
On a comment for our XAML Futures PDC09 talk , vplusplus asked: …curious to know why MSFT chose a design approach of "not-using" BAML in Silverlight space? The compiler could have done the heavy-lifting as against the runtime... Why do you ask...
Bing announced “ Visual Search Galleries ” the other day. Promising… We’re considering getting a dog and the Dog breed search will help. Also saw Patrick Hansen’s write up about PhotoBucket’s Visual Search . Promising…
Starting today (Thursday night?), Sunday Night Football on NBC will be web broadcast in HD via Silverlight. I’ve seen a demo of the app, I’m excited to try it out live…. http://snfextra.nbcsports.com/
Got a comment from Thomas Claudius Huber the other day in the middle of my post about “ MsBuild pipeline for WPF & Silverlight ”: Hi Rob, what about the Markup-Parsers? There are some differences between Silverlight and WPF XAML, e.g. <Button>Hello<...
Just stepped a developer on my team through the basics of a .csproj file, the targets it imports (Microsoft.CSharp.targets), and how targets and tasks work in msbuild. He is debugging why a Blend 3 project has a strange warning when upgrading a SketchFlow...
Blogs.msdn.com/officewebapps posts: “ The Office Web Apps Love Your Browser ”
Ran into the office earlier today and installed: W indows 7 Ultimate (RTM) – which includes .NET Framework 3.5sp1. O ffice 2010 (Technical Preview) – my first try of Office 2010. L ive Essentials – Live Writer and more… V S 2010 (an internal build from...
Sparky Dasrath writes a short post discussing XAML centric improvements in VS2010 XAML Editor and Property Grid for WPF and Silverlight developers.
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