Archive for the ‘Development’ Category
Monday, June 16th, 2008
Technorati Tags: WPF,Top 10,Development Resources As a minor intermission while I put a bit more effort into the WPF article series, I thought I'd list my top 10 favourite WPF and .NET tools. Ok, here goes! ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
Technorati Tags: FREE WPF Tutorials,XAML,Blend,C#,Visual Studio,.Net I thought I'd posted enough light-weight topics lately, so to create a bit of solid tutorial content I though I'd start a series of tutorials / articles on how to re-style the standard controls available with WPF, using expression blend. I've been asked ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
Technorati Tags: Synology,Subversion,DS106e,DS106j When I originally installed my Subversion server on the Synology box way back in March 07 the firmware on the box was pretty much OEM. I'd tweaked the firmware to allow telnet, but that was about the only upgrade I'd got. Well, since my I ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
Technorati Tags: WPF,Shaders,.net3.5sp1 Well, I finally managed to get round to whipping up a pixel shader today, and a reasonable workflow with skeleton projects to enable quick(ish) turnaround during development. Since Pixel Shaders were introduced on Greg Shechters blog I'd taken a quick look and one thing was ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
After spending about and hour trying to get MyGeneration to reference the FileHelpers Dll's, I thought it would be worth pointing something out.. QUIT MYGENERATION AND RE-RUN IT AFTER YOU HAVE COPIED THE ASSEMBLIES INTO THE MYGENERATION FOLDER. Damn. I've just spent a frustrating hour looking at "Couldn't ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Just thought I'd let anyone having the same problems as me know how I ended up solving them! Basically it appears that there are a couple of updates available on Windows update that are marked as optional, but which turn out to be not-so-optional... the cuplrits ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Oh No! i've just installed the .Net3.5 SP1 Beta + the VS2008 SP1 Beta, and it's completely hosed my setup :( When I open VS2008 and try to open a project, when the XAML/WPF view opens, i get the dreaded designer error window, with an exception i've not seen ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Well, not how I'd have phrased it but still. Sounds more like a Nigerian 419. But still........ I'VE WON AN iPod! Yup. Really. An iPod!! I submitted an idea into a program we have here @ EDS, and the best ideas are chosen and then awarded a ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Checkout Greg Schechters's blog! Finally we get hardware accelerated Bitmap effects, and it looks like they're significantly easier to implement than those nasty slow ugly software based effects! <ugh> even thinking about throwing pixel around in a CLR based language makes me want to wash with carbolic soap. Anyway ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
After spending a few hours with ADO.NET, typed dataset, and some WPF bindings I was feeling like I'd been 5 rounds with Mike Tyson. Well, it wasn't that bad, but it just felt that bad. The trouble is the behaviour of ADO's typed datasets when dealing with ...
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