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Monthly Archives: January 2010

  • Windows Client Developer Roundup for 1/25/2010

    This is Windows Client Developer roundup #8. I’m off in Reykjavik Iceland this week, speaking about Silverlight and WPF, but put this together ahead of time to ensure we have some great links for this week. By now, you’ve probably heard that Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4’s launch date is April 12, 2010. The teams are doing more performance work to ensure we all have the best possible experien...

  • It’s an awesome time to be a Developer

    I code for fun.  When I was quite a bit younger, it was pretty early in the era of personal computers, pre-PC revolution. I’ve been pretty clear about how much I loved my Commodore, so I won’t drone on and on about that here (you may breathe a sigh of relief now, but this post reads well with the theme from M.U.L.E. or better yet, a remix of Outrun playing on your headset). Ba...

  • The Win7 Sensor and Location API: Introduction to Working with Location in .NET 4 Beta 2

    Windows 7 introduced the Sensor and Location API. I’ve previously blogged about the sensor API, but couldn’t wait to get into the Location side of it. Location API OverviewThe location API is a specialized part of the overall sensor API. Many portable devices, laptops and tablets are starting to include GPS and WIFI equipment, both of which can be used to idenfity your current locat...

  • Applications and Other Things I’ve Written Professionally over the Years

    Prior to joining Microsoft, I worked at a consulting company for a bit over 13 years. Prior to that, I started the IT department at a medical billing company and worked there for 4 years while completing my Computer Science degree. Seeing Scott’s post on past work he did years ago at SparkFun and 800.com got me to thinking about some of the interesting projects I’ve been on. I’ve been a develo...

  • Windows Client Developer Roundup for 1/18/2010

    This is Windows Client Developer roundup #7.The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF, Surface, Windows 7, XNA, Windows Forms, and some Silverlight. If you have something interesting you’ve done or have run across, please send me the URL and brief description via the contact link on my blog.WPFA Field Guide to WPF P...

  • Some Fun Blogs I Subscribe to

    I subscribe to maybe a hundred blogs, most of which are related to programming or design. To keep it mixed up, I do have a bunch that I read every day just for fun. Here they are, in alphabetical order. Take a peak through, and if you find some you like, go ahead and subscribe. If there are some you sub to now that I don’t have listed here, let me know in the comments – I’m always looking for n...

  • Terry Brown 1950 - 2010

     On January 14, 2010, around 5:30 am, my father passed away at home from a relatively short bout with a very aggressive cancer. He had just turned 59 in December. We first found out in May 2009, and, as these these things often do, it looked like it would respond well to treatment.Treatment took a lot out of dad, but he held up well.We all thought there would be more time, but the cancer t...

  • Windows Client Developer Roundup for 1/11/2010

    This is Windows Client Developer roundup #6. Ahh, another wonderful binary day: 011110, this time we also have symmetry in the number. So happy “30” everyone! The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client (WPF, Surface, Windows 7, XNA, Windows Forms, and some Silverlight) developers. If you have something interesting you’ve done or have run across, p...

  • A WPF Behavior for Window Resize Events in .NET 3.5

    I got stuck on one bit of functionality in the ShoeBoxScan project Scott assigned me just before the holidays. I needed to keep the size of the selection adorners in sync with the size of the overall window when resized: (the screenshots are a WIP development build) Now, if I had just used a ViewBox, everything would have resized on the adorner layer, and I only wanted the bounds changed,...

  • Scanning images in WPF via WIA

    Over the holidays, Scott assigned to me a project to wrap up some of the WPF-ness in the shoebox scanner he had built. He had the scanning in place, but not some of the cropping/resizing against the original image, and the UI was a dev UI. The scanning part is pretty interesting, so I thought I'd share that with you. The app Scott and I have put together is a WPF 3.5 application, b...

  • Windows Client Developer Roundup for 1/4/2010

    Happy New Year! This is Windows Client Developer Roundup #5, the first of 2010, and the first of the new decade. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client (WPF, Surface, Windows 7, XNA, and some Silverlight) developers. If you have something interesting you’ve done or have run across, please send me the URL and brief description via the contact l...

  • Happy 22!

    Today is “22”. 01/01/10 or 010110 Have a happy new year!