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Pete Brown writes on a variety of topics from XAML with the Windows Runtime (WinRT), .NET programming using C#, WPF, Microcontroller programming with .NET Microframework, .NET Gadgeteer, Windows on Devices, and even plain old C, to raising two children in the suburbs of Maryland, woodworking, CNC and generally "making physical 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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This is Windows Client Developer roundup #44.
The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF, Silverlight, Visual C++, XNA, Expression Blend, Surface, Windows 7, Windows Forms, Windows Phone, Visual Studio, WCF RIA Services,
sometimes even a little jQuery and HTML5. I also include fun
non-Windows client tech like the ....
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This is Windows Client Developer roundup #39.
The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF, Silverlight, Visual C++, XNA, Expression Blend, Surface, Windows 7,
Windows Forms, Windows Phone and Visual Studio, WCF RIA Services,
sometimes even a little jQuery and HTML5. If you have something
interesting you've done or ...
Published
Monday, August 30, 2010 |
Tagged:
.NET, WPF, Silverlight, XNA, Visual-Studio, win7, WindowsClient, WindowsClientRoundup, Windows-Phone |
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I'm trying out various BIOS and clocking tweaks on my bench
install of the Ultimate Developer PC 2.0. To keep things
clean, I've reinstalled Windows 7 a number of times.
Normally, this would be a deal killer. I mean, who wants to sit
around and wait for a complete reinstall of Windows 7 Ultimate x64?
Well, turns out it's really fast. I reinstalled 4
or 5 times yesterday and twice toda...
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This is Windows Client Developer roundup #31.
The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF, Silverlight, Visual C++, XNA, Expression
Blend, Surface, Windows 7, Windows Forms, Windows
Phone and Visual Studio. If you have something interesting you've
done or have run across, or you blog regularly on the topics
includ...
Published
Monday, July 5, 2010 |
Tagged:
.NET, WPF, Silverlight, XNA, ASP.NET, Visual-Studio, win7, WindowsClient, WindowsClientRoundup, Windows-Phone, jQuery, WCF-RIA-Services |
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This is adapted from my recent "Creating your First WPF Application"
post. I felt the dynamic overlay was interesting enough to pull
out into a separate post.
WPF has
good integration with the Windows 7 taskbar. One of the more
interesting ways to integrate with the taskbar is to show an
overlay icon. Most examples of this show how to overlay a static
image or some visuals. I wanted ...
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Back in February, I wrote a primer on getting started with WPF,
using the Hello World example. Yesterday, as part of my work on the
MSDN video series, I created a very different "getting started" example using
Silverlight Out-of-Browser and a direct REST service call to search
twitter. For the WPF video in that same series,
I decided to parallel the work I did on the Silverlight side, an...
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This is Windows Client Developer roundup #23.
The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF, Surface, Windows 7, XNA,
Windows Forms, Silverlight, Windows Phone and
Visual Studio. 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 m...
Published
Monday, May 10, 2010 |
Tagged:
.NET, User-Experience-(UX), WPF, Silverlight, Patterns, XNA, Visual-Studio, win7, CPP, WindowsClient, WindowsClientRoundup, Windows-Phone |
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Telnet can be a nice easy way to debug DNS and see the raw
result of a web request. There are lots of other tools that do
this, but I keep returning to Telnet; maybe because at one point in
my career, Telnet was the
internet.
Enabling Telnet
Open the control panel, and go to Programs and Features.
Select "Turn Windows features on or off"
Next, select the Telnet Client. Don...
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Today, I visited one of those ad-laden but otherwise legitimate
sites with lots of top 10 lists. In this case, it was a list of
photos which looked too cool to be real. I got there from a link
chain starting at a Lego article on Epic Win which had a link to
the original photo which then had a link to similar stuff etc. It
was a long chain of sites I normally wouldn't visit, but which wer...
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This is Windows Client Developer roundup #21.
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.
WPF a...
Published
Monday, April 26, 2010 |
Tagged:
.NET, WPF, Silverlight, XNA, Surface, Visual-Studio, win7, WindowsClient, WindowsClientRoundup, Windows-Phone |
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Earlier this year, I upgraded my Verizon 15/5 business-class
FIOS to 35/35. While I had awesome downstream results, my upstream
always hovered around 6-10. I run my web server out of my house,
and also do a lot of VPN work with Microsoft, so upstream is really
important.
I first called Verizon support, and got annoyed at the wait. I
tweeted something, and a Verizon tech contacted me o...
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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 des...
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Marc Schweigert in public sector just announced the availability of touch.codeplex.com, a set of multi-touch behaviors for WPF 3.5sp1, Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4.Project OverviewThe APIs in WPF4 plus the Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch make building common touch scenarios easy. However, implementing many of the same touch scenarios using WPF3.5SP1 or Silverlight 3/4 involves writing a fa...
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Last week I had the real pleasure of speaking at the Best of Tech-Ed and Convergence in Reykjavik, Iceland. I was absolutely amazed by the size of the developer and IT community in Iceland, and the turnout at this conference. For an island of about 300,000 people, having a turnout close to 1,200 locals at a conference is pretty amazing. The participants at the conference were all great folks. ...
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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...
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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...
Published
Saturday, January 23, 2010 |
Tagged:
.NET, Silverlight, Zune, XNA, Fun, win7, Web-Development, WindowsClient, Gadgets |
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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...
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On to Windows Client Developer Roundup #3 for 12/21/2009 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. And to everyone reading this live, I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Joyous Holiday Season. WPF Source code for MyBoard (I mentioned MyBoard in the last roundup – awesome WPF app) (co...
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Here’s a list of videos I’ve put on various sites lately. The first set includes videos I’ve done for WindowsClient.net, to help folks learn how to build cool applications on Windows. The second set are some of the interviews I did at PDC09, showing cool apps folks have built in WPF and Silverlight. More of both will be coming soon, WindowsClient.net How do I: Use Windows 7 Taskbar Progre...
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Computer voice synthesis has come a very long way since the old
robotic voices like we heard on Wargames ("Shall we play a game?" in what sounded like
slightly British overtones) and other voice synths of the time.
From automated voice response to the little GPS receivers in our
cars, we expect to hear pretty decent human-sounding words, with
gender tones and even accents.
Many of u...
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Here’s another link roundup for Windows Client developers. I often tweet a number of these as I find them, so if you want the links in real-time, follow me on twitter. WPF General Another screensaver with WPF (CodeProject) How can I filter data virtualized items in WPF? (Bea Stollnitz) Snoop, now with 2x the bits! (Snoop 64 it support) (Cory Plotts) How to create a Reverse Prog...
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I have a KVM in my rack in the utility room. It’s great for those times when I have to be at the console of one of my servers. I wanted something similar for my workstation setup. This weekend, I finally got around to cleaning up my home office, and setting up the Dell PC that was sent to me from Microsoft per Scott Hanselman’s request. The importance of an “always connected to Microsoft” PC (...
