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This past Monday (May 14th), I officially started a new role at
Microsoft. I like to be as transparent as possible, so I thought
I'd share with you all the details of this role as well as where I
was before I moved to it.
TL;DR:
XAML. Windows. Developers. 'nuf said.
A little (optional) history
I've been working for Microsoft for a bit over two and a half
years now. In that...
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IL DASM (The Intermediate Language Disassembly tool) is
something I haven't used in a while. When .NET 1.0 first came out
in beta over a decade ago, a much younger me went and created a
"Hello World" in IL just to see how it's done. I still have it:
//
// Hello World IL Program
// ------------------------------------
// Written by Peter M. Brown
// August 15, 2001
//
// This is ...
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Recently, a reader asked how they should go about
setting the Typography properties from code-behind.
The original question was about Silverlight, but the approach
works in WPF, Windows 8 and more.
Given the following markup:
<StackPanel>
<TextBlock x:Name="OriginalText"
FontSize="72"
FontFamily="Gabriola"
Text="Hello ...
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Over the years, I've conditioned myself to use the Uri class
when surfacing web URLs in my application. Early versions of
Silverlight couldn't bind an image source directly to an instance
of a Uri because they lacked an appropriate type converter; the
usual workaround was to change the property to a string type.
Subsequent versions Silverlight added that capability and the
converter. ...
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My Lenovo W520 laptop is running the
Windows 8 consumer preview. When at home, I don't use my laptop
as my primary workstation -- I have my 6 core 4.2ghz, 2x30" beast
for the majority of my work. However, I do often need to do some
things on my laptop, especially given that it is currently the only
Windows 8 machine in my office.
The way I work on the laptop is to remote into it ...
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At the South Florida Code Camp last week, I gave an early
morning talk titled "Getting Started with XAML". In this talk, I
covered the basics of XAML, the property system, layout, and other
things you need to know as a XAML developer for WPF, Silverlight,
or Windows 8.
Slides
Attached to this post
Demos
It was all real-time stuff in this talk. No downloadable demos.
I...
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The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WinRT XAML, WPF, Silverlight, Visual
C++, XNA, Expression Blend, Surface, Windows
7, Windows
Phone, Visual Studio, WCF RIA Services and
more. Sometimes I even include a little jQuery and HTML5. If you
have something interesting you've done or have run across, or you
blog regu...
Published
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 |
Tagged:
.NET, WPF, Silverlight, XNA, CPP, WindowsClient, WindowsClientRoundup, Kinect, Windows8, XAML |
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Before joining Microsoft, I was a consultant, primarily building
desktop applications using a variety of MS technologies. During my
last couple years there, Silverlight was a large part of that both
for full apps and as parts of larger web sites. Prior to that, it
was WPF, Windows Forms, VB, HTML and even SharePoint.
tl;dr: The point of this long post is not to
show you examples of ...
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The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WinRT XAML, WPF, Silverlight, Visual
C++, XNA, Expression Blend, Surface, Windows
7, Windows
Phone, Visual Studio, WCF RIA Services and
more. Sometimes I even include a little jQuery and HTML5. If you
have something interesting you've done or have run across, or you
blog regu...
Published
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 |
Tagged:
.NET, Silverlight, 3d, XNA, CPP, WindowsClient, WindowsClientRoundup, Kinect, Windows8, XAML |
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The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WinRT XAML, WPF, Silverlight, Visual
C++, XNA, Expression Blend, Surface, Windows
7, Windows
Phone, Visual Studio, WCF RIA Services and
more. Sometimes I even include a little jQuery and HTML5. If you
have something interesting you've done or have run across, or you
blog regu...
Published
Monday, November 28, 2011 |
Tagged:
.NET, WPF, Silverlight, 3d, XNA, Surface, WindowsClient, WindowsClientRoundup, Kinect, Windows8, XAML |
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The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WinRT XAML, WPF, Silverlight, Visual
C++, XNA, Expression Blend, Surface, Windows
7, Windows
Phone, Visual Studio, WCF RIA Services and
more. Sometimes I even include a little jQuery and HTML5. If you
have something interesting you've done or have run across, or you
blog regu...
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The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WinRT XAML, WPF, Silverlight, Visual
C++, XNA, Expression Blend, Surface, Windows
7, Windows
Phone, Visual Studio, WCF RIA Services and
more. Sometimes I even include a little jQuery and HTML5. If you
have something interesting you've done or have run across, or you
blog regu...
Published
Monday, October 10, 2011 |
Tagged:
.NET, WPF, Silverlight, XNA, Surface, WindowsClient, WindowsClientRoundup, Kinect, Windows8, XAML |
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The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WinRT XAML, WPF, Silverlight, Visual
C++, XNA, Expression Blend, Surface, Windows
7, Windows
Phone, Visual Studio, WCF RIA Services and
more. Sometimes I even include a little jQuery and HTML5. If you
have something interesting you've done or have run across, or you
blog regu...
Published
Monday, September 26, 2011 |
Tagged:
.NET, WPF, Silverlight, XNA, WindowsClient, WindowsClientRoundup, Kinect, Windows8, XAML |
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Windows 8 and Metro are new to most developers. Luckily, the
//build/ event has a TON of great sessions explaining how to get
productive with the new development stack. Here's my personal list
of Build 2011 videos that XAML developers (Silverlight, WPF, Phone)
should see, roughly in order starting with key Windows 8
sessions.
The video player supports trick play (on IE9, right-click a...
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I'm putting the finishing touches on Silverlight 5 in Action. At
around 1050 pages of very deep Silverlight content, it's quite a
brick :) I'm really proud of how this book has come out.
Developers, especially business application developers, will be
using Silverlight for application development for years both on
Windows 7 and Windows 8 With that in mind, I wanted to make sure
that I ha...