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  • My First 6 months Working for The Man

    It's hard to believe, but today marks six months of working for Microsoft. It was a long process - one that lasted almost two years from the first contact to the start date, but it was worth it. I started on Monday October 12, 2009. On that first day, I got all my orientation and badge work done by 3:00pm, and then went and found Scott so I could shadow him for a bit. I even made a few...

    Published Monday, April 12, 2010 | Tagged: , , , , | 8 comments

  • WPF 4 Release: A guide to the new features

    April 12 is my 6 month anniversary at Microsoft, and also happens to be the date we've launched .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010. Congratulations to the product teams who made this release happen! .NET 4 has had a ton of improvements, and Visual Studio 2010 with the new WPF interface and MEF-based plug-in model is an amazing piece of software. Having watched it grow from the differe...

    Published Monday, April 12, 2010 | Tagged: , , , , | 22 comments

  • Windows Client Developer Roundup for 4/12/2010

    This is Windows Client Developer roundup #19. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF, Surface, Windows 7, XNA, Windows Forms, Silverlight and Windows Phone. 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. This ...

    Published Monday, April 12, 2010 | Tagged: , , , , , , | Leave comment

  • WPF: Binding to Anonymous Types from LINQ

    When doing some writing on Binding for WPF 4, it occurred to me that many folks don't realize that in WPF, we've long been able to bind to anonymous types returned from LINQ statements, as long as we have property names. Here's a quick example that does a product of two lists to generate some test data: XAML <ListBox x:Name="MyListBox"> <ListBox.ItemTemplate> ...

    Published Monday, April 12, 2010 | Tagged: , , | 6 comments