September 2005 - Posts
Microsoft is dogfooding their own go-live license for ASP.NET 2.0: > telnet www.microsoft.com 80 > GET / Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:17:52 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 P3P: CP="ALL IND DSP COR ADM CONo CUR CUSo IVAo IVDo PSA PSD TAI TELo OUR SAMo
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Chuck Jazdzewski has a decent two-part primer on XAML on his blog. Today I begin a tour of XAML. As Chris said, I have been part of development of XAML. I came fairly late to the game, however, more closely to the end of the Avalon development cycle than
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A few folks have asked us where Melissa is registered for the baby. Here are the links: Nurtured Family : Natural fuzzi bunz cloth diapers and wipes. Please follow the instructions on registry page as they aren't quite as automated as other places. Babies
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I first learned BASIC on a DEC VT back in 7th grade at Mary E. Wells Jr High School in Southbridge, MA. Mr Dragon ran the (usually empty) computer room there at the time. While I quickly tired of the monochrome display when I first discovered sprite graphics
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Ok, so let's say you're not into WPF and all the neat UI changes that will come about from that. You're not the design type, you just want to write traditional battleship applications. Will you still be able to stay in happy F ile | E dit | V iew | ...|
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In case anyone ever wonders if Microsoft produces any real apps (other than Microsoft Max ) using managed code, here you go: Expression Interactive Designer (aka Sparkle) is a 100% .NET, managed code application. The source is currently more than 1200
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The simulated reflection effect in WPF (formerly Avalon) is ripe to quickly become a visual cliche, much like the aztec temple-like overuse of stacked 3d elements in the VB 3.0 Win3.x days. When done tastefully by someone with an eye for design, it can
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Here's some interesting baby gear we intend to get: Slings We ordered a Maya Wrap for Melissa, and a larger one for me, from La Leche league of Annapolis. They sell them as a fundraiser. While we were down there, we saw a fairly slight woman with a very
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Here's the floor plan for our kitchen renovation. The opening between the living room and kitchen/dining area will be almost double in width (compared to current) to let in a lot more natural light as well as provide for a much more open feeling between
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On Friday September 23, 2005, we had the 20 week ultrasound. Luckily, they were able to do the 4d ultrasound (4d is 3d + movement the fourth dimension is time) I was hoping for . Here is a shot of the 4d ultrasound. The baby is lying against the placenta
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Check out the new guided tour of WPF on the MSDN site. Summary : Get an overview of Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly code-named "Avalon") and a context for this new graphics subsystem. Survey the architecture and major components available within
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Check out WinFX Hearts . This nifty WinFX / WPF / Avalon / XAML app was demonstrated at the PDC as part of the "Light Up on Windows Vista" bits.
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The Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines are definitely worth a read. In addition, if you haven't already ordered your own copy of the . NET Framework Design Guidelines (I picked up mine at the PDC), do so now. If you're using the naming conventions
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Sparkle, Quartz, Acrylic. Those are definitely some of the more unique product names I've heard in a while. As these are targeted towards the usual hip "own a mac as a spare" types of folks, you won't find any ".NET" or "2006" or similar in the names.
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Yes, more PDC swag :) I spent a half hour in a hands-on lab today, learning how to program for the tablet PC in Windows Vista and Visual Studio 2005. In return for doing something which I considered to be enjoyable and enlightening, I received a refurbished
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Microsoft PDC Day 1 Everything Looks Different The first thing that became clear to me today was that we're in for another user interface revolution, one even larger than the change from Windows 3.x to Windows 95. Windows Presentation Foundation (aka
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If you recall from yesterday's blog entry , I was having some problems trying to find a way to compare some generics which may contain nullable types. My thanks go to Dinesh and his colleagues for solving this problem for me . Here's the new code; it's
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By now, you have likely read Somasegar's blog entry on nullable types in VS 2005. You know that nullable types are now recognized by the CLR and no longer implement INullableValue. What you may not have realized is that nullable types no longer implement
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All the emergency priming and trim work paid off. The house appraised for over the amount I needed, and they only took off $1000 for the paint and trim. Had I left it as it was, we'd be looking at a failed appraisal, or at a minimum, a much larger
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I guess now is the time we get to practice our sleep deprivation exercises. I don't recall reading that in the manual. Every morning, the baby (fetus/future person/avocado/whatever you want to call it right now) body checks/kicks/wiggles my wife awake
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