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Visual Studio debugging of GPU parallel algorithms

By now you've probably heard of the steady march toward multiple CPUs in your computer. First there were two core CPU's and then a few months later there was four core ones available. The number keeps growing, with Intel predicting 80 core within Read More...

Still seats available in the upcoming Wintellect WPF virtual class

Once or twice a year Wintellect offers my Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) class as a two day virtual online class. it’s a busy two days, I cram a lot information about WPF basics into a short amount of time. it is always hard for me to decide what Read More...

Remote Debugging Startup procedures in WPF

This week I was debugging a problem with a WPF application. Actually, it being a WPF app had little to do with the problem. No, what I was testing was the installer process. We’re writing a new WPF frontend for an existing system and Read More...

Spending Time with my LG Windows Phone 7 “Developer” Device

Tuesday morning started out good. I was in a meeting room on the Microsoft campus, working on a Windows Phone 7 (wp7) application. About 10:A.M. my local developer evangelist came to the room. In his hand was a white and yellow box that Read More...

Changing Hardware can Invalidate your Expression Blend License

Do software crises ever happen when you have plenty of free time to troubleshoot them? I’m sure that they do, it just doesn’t seem that way for me in the last few years. Expression Blend Warning The first sign of trouble appeared as Read More...

The BringToFront Behavior

Are you a WPF history buff? If so you might be familiar with the attached behaviors story. It’s a short saga, but worthy of review. Back in the early days of WPF we were learning the nuances of the new XAML system. The attached property system was an Read More...

Shazzam Shader Editor 1.3 is now available

I work on an Open Source project called Shazzam Shader Editor. This week, we released version 1.3. With this utility you can write, compile and test WPF/Silverlight shaders. You can learn more about this free tool at http://blog.shazzam-tool.com Read More...

Taking a Look at Content Controls

A fair portion of the time, the content of a FrameworkElement is text. Some elements, like TextBox and TextBlock make this obvious, by providing a Text property. The Text Property is of type String and it trivially easy to set in XAML. [example] Read More...

Playing with the Polyline

Let's say that you want to draw a line in WPF. You'd probably guess that there is a Line class in WPF that does the trick. You'd be right, as it turns out, there is such a class available in WPF. To use it you designate a start and end point, provide Read More...

Time to dust off this Blog

I spend a lot of time writing articles, blog posts and code. Most of the blog posts I write are published on my wpfwonderland blog site. But I hear from the students of my Wintellect classes that they’d like to see some posts here on Read More...

Virtual WPF - Data-binding examples

Data is at the heart of virtually any business application. WPF ships with a flexible data binding engine that simplifies writing data centric applications. I spend a lot of time during my WPF class talking about this data-binding feature. Read More...

Talking about Microsoft Surface

The last couple months have been a hectic flurry of activity. Not only have I been at several conferences and the MVP summit I've also been putting the finishing touches on our Mastering Microsoft Surface™ Development with WPF class. This Read More...

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