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Pete Brown writes on a variety of topics from .NET programming using WPF, Silverlight, XNA, and Windows Phone, to raising two children in the suburbs of Maryland, to woodworking, CNC and generally "making real stuff". Oh, and Pete loves retro technology, especially Commodore (C64 and C128). If the content interests you, please subscribe using the subscription link to the right of every page.
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I recently published two new interview videos on Channel 9, both
with product team folks here at Microsoft. You'll also see that
I've redone the video overlays to bring them in line with my site
theme. Love it? Hate it? Let me know.
Henry Sowizral
The first is with Henry Sowizral. Henry and I
chat about what it takes to take a real application, with tons of
legacy C, C++ and even assembly co...
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This is Windows Client Developer roundup #16, the last one
before all the MIX festivities. Sending this one out a day early so
I can make my flight on Sunday. In preparation for all the coolness
at MIX,
make sure you have your Silverlight/WPF/XNA development toolbox up
to date.
I'll be at MIX10 this week. Be sure to watch the keynote
at MIX (usually broadcast live), as well as the sessions o...
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Most Microsoft events have a few custom applications built for
them. You never really hear much about them, and perhaps don't even
think about them as custom apps, but there they are, in the keynote
showing tweets, or before sessions (in this case) showing trivia
questions.
MIX has been my favorite conference since I first attended in 2006. Last year I had a
blast and entered the showoff with...
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We've all been busy on our various sites. Earlier this year, we
put out an overall redesign for MSDN. Yesterday, the asp.net site
team went live with a redesign to the asp.net site (looks awesome,
btw). Also yesterday, we went live with the redesigned Windows Developer Center on MSDN.
The team really pulled out all the stops in making this a
beautiful and usable site. From a visual design sta...
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I've recently posted a few articles here
on my site. You may wonder why articles and not blog posts?
One problem I ran into on my previous site was the dating of
content that could be updated over time. You often run into this
with regular blog sites as well. I strongly dislike going back and
editing old blog posts, as the blog format wasn't really intended
for that. Blog posts should be accu...
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I just published a new article on how to get started learning WPF or Silverlight. If
you're new to either of these technologies, this could be a great
resource for you.
Article: How to Get Started in WPF or Silverlight:
A Learning Path for New Developers
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With your help, I've just put up a new article on the essential
tools every client developer should have in their toolbox. If
there's a tool (not a library/framework - that'll come next) that
you use during your client development, please go ahead and comment
on the article and let me know.
Article:
The Essential WPF/Silverlight/XNA Developer and Designer
Toolbox
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This is Windows Client Developer roundup #15. I had so much to
send out this week, I decided to do a special edition.
I'll be at MIX10 next week. Be sure to watch the keynote
at MIX (usually broadcast live), as well as the sessions once they
are posted (typically by the end of the week). Stay tuned to the MIX
website.
The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
i...
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Yesterday I blogged about using the special "Item[]" property
name in the PropertyChanged event for a custom ObservableDictionary class.
What I didn't know was whether or not the Item[] property name
was effectively a change notification for every single binding
target, or just the current one. I suspected it did it for every
binding (I even tried specifying a key inside the brackets, ...
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I saw this tweet in my Windows Client tweetstream today:
I thought, "what a good idea for a sample." I know that binding
in WPF and
Silverlight
can be a challenge, especially if you're new to the technology. It
can be even more difficult when you're working with an edge case
like binding using indexers.
So, here's a quickie on binding to a Dictionary<TKey,
TValue> in WPF...
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WPF and
Silverlight
allow you to bind to property indexers by string key or numeric
index. For example:
<TextBox Text="{Binding [field1], Mode=TwoWay}" />
<TextBox Text="{Binding Fields[field1], Mode=TwoWay}" />
<TextBox Text="{Binding [15], Mode=TwoWay}" />
If you're creating the data source for those (for example, you
are building your own ObservableDiction...
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This is Windows Client Developer roundup #14.
This is my first Roundup on my new blogging platform. Please check out the
site and let me know what you think, what could be better etc.
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 s...
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The WPF
Text team has been really busy this release. Not only did we have
the huge text improvements early on from the complete rewrite to a
DirectWrite-based text stack, but now they've tweaked the WPF text rendering to be even
better, especially on high-contrast light-on-dark
scenarios.
Can you tell the difference between the GDI VS2008 text
rendering and the new WPF GDI-compat...
