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Expression Blend in Software Development Lifecycle
I was having dinner with a friend yesterday (non-Microsoft) who manages a software development team and he told me that he was excited about the potential of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and...
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Mindjet Should Hire These Guys!
Four guys out of Bulgaria just built this .Net application for mind mapping. It looks really cool with a very fresh look! It was built with WPF and all our latest technology like Silverlight. I...
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More Detail on When to use Which Presentation Technology
Back in July, I created a simple grid of when to use which Microsoft presentation technology. I did this in response to a workshop I ran at one of my customer's offices. David Chappell just wrote a...
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Upcoming Webinar: Better Online Documentation: Creating WPF FlowDocuments...
One of the challenges with creating online documentation is readability, especially with long documents. Most of the time, we end up printing out documents instead of attempting to read them online....
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Webinar Recording Available: Better Online Technical Documents - Building a...
I just posted the recording of the webinar that I did today showing a Word 2007 Add-in that creates WPF Flow Documents (using the FlowDocument class):...
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Lenovo Uses WPF for Laptop Power Manager applet
I have been using a Lenovo T60p computer with Windows Vista since I joined Microsoft last year. Lenovo has a great System update utility that keeps the service packs and applets up to date. Recently...
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Talking About Expression Blend at SDForum Windows SIG in Mtn. View 8/28/2008
I love using Expression Blend. With both a design education (architecture) and a career in software development, I've become somewhat of an expert on using Microsoft's Expression Blend for designing...
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Silverlight and WPF Workshop in NYC 9/3/2008
Next week I will be in New York City meeting customers and I will be holding a free half-day mini-workshop at the Microsoft office on 6th Avenue to teach people about building Silverlight and WPF...
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Added Silverlight 2 Text to WordToXaml (formerly WordFlowDocumentCreator)
Last year I created and uploaded a demonstration project to Popfly that converted a Word 2007 Document to a WPF FlowDocument. The best example of a FlowDocument can be seen in the New York Times...
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Updating Word to XAML Converter
I have done a bit of work lately on my Word 2007 to XAML converter application to give it a bit more functionality in the following areas:TableVML GraphicsCorrectly handling default styles and...
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Whitespace in XAML
I just ran into a problem with XAML (WPF and Silverlight) and wanted to share my solution with you. In my Word to XAML converter application, I was noticing that sometimes extraneous spaces were being...
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WPF for Line of Business Apps Free Training
My colleague Jaime Rodriguez asked me to tell you about this great opportunity for learning about building WPF Line-of-Business applications. It’s a free two-day workshop held in Los Angeles, London,...
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New York Times WPF Kit
If you browse the source code for the New York Times Silverlight Kit, you’ll notice that there are two project that are not for Silverlight but for WPF applications. It turns out that most of the code...
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Windows 7 Sensor Trigger for WPF Applications
One of the cool new features of Windows 7 is a sensor platform that unifies the way that Windows 7 applications work with sensors. For .NET developers, we’ve released a Windows API Code Pack that...
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Word to XAML Converter Updated
I have just updated the Word to XAML Converter application to support Word 2010, WPF 4, and Silverlight 4. You would use this converter if you have documentation or text in Word that you want to...
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Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework Updated
We have just released an update to the Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework to include the following new features:Support for Windows Phone 7Support for the Microsoft Silverlight Media Framework...
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Xaml Generator – a New App for Office
A few years ago I build and shared the source code for a Word to Xaml Converter, a Word 2007 add-in that developers could use to convert Microsoft Office Word documents to Xaml for WPF and Silverlight...
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Kinetic Typography: a New Design Tool
If you know my background, you know that I have a passion for building tools for creative design. Recently I’ve had a fascination with Kinetic Typography and saw the convergence of a few key...
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POV Hackathon Prototype: Aerial Viewing
This past weekend, I participated in the most interesting hackathon: Sponsored by the PBS Documentary Series POV, this hackathon paired media makers with technologists, challenging the teams to...
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Surface Pro 3 + Adobe Photoshop CC 2014
The past two days, I have had an amazing time helping attendees at the Adobe MAX conference setup their new Microsoft Surface Pro 3 tablets. For most of the attendees that I had met, this was their...
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