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The estimable Raymond Chen posted a funny story today about an experience he had in Sweden. (Make sure you read Raymond's post so you can understand one of the greatest blog comments ever !) Anyway, I had to laugh out loud because I had something similar...
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I recently had the pleasure of speaking at CodeStock 2009 and was very impressed with the conference overall. The folks behind this conference put in a lot of work and did a really great job. I got the chance to see some really good presentations as well....
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Aren't "New and Improved" the most over used, and contradictory, terms in the marketer's dictionary? How can something and be new, but yet improved because if it is improved that cancels out the new. My point is that I want to tout an updated release...
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After a detour into Historical Debugging , it’s time to come back to return to answering questions about PDB files. Here’s a question from Justin: Thanks for the great post once again. I was looking forward to your debugging virtual training, but unfortunately...
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I have been asked by many people if I will be updating my CLR via C# book for .NET 4.0. Well, I'm happy to report that the answer is YES! I have already signed the contract with Microsoft Press and have been busy writing. The new edition keeps its focus...
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Visual Studio 2010's Historical Debugging feature fascinates me. As you sit in the debugger, being able to move backwards while in the debugger (or attach the execution log to a bug) has to be the killer feature coming up in the entire Visual Studio 2010...
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While Silverlight is a functional subset of WPF and the gap is ever narrowing, there are many features that WPF supports that Silverlight does not. Silverlight even offers a few features that WPF doesn't. Microsoft asked us to do a whitepaper on the differences....
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Go here: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-C9-Bing-Changes-to-NET-FX-40--play-Apple-IIe-games-on-your-Xbox/ And at about 23 minutes in, they talk briefly about the Wintellect Power Live Framework library....
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As I've discussed , PDB files are wondrous bundles of binary joy. However, loading missing PDB files can quickly become an angst-ridden teenager as you wait what seems like forever on a network timeout for missing symbols. This is especially apparent...
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While Microsoft really wants everyone to test doing an upgrade install of Windows 7 from Vista, I don't know anyone who has because all my friends are jaded Windows developers. Having installed Win 7 RC from scratch twice on my laptops, I was feeling...
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Thanks for all the comments and emails about my blog entry, PDB Files: What Every Developer Must Know . There was lots of nice feedback, but more importantly great questions! Instead of responding in the blog comments to these questions as I normally...
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Since late 2008, I have been spending a lot of time focusing on Microsoft’s Live Framework and Mesh technologies. Towards this end, I have produced a Power Live Framework library that simplifies coding against the Live Framework. And, I have also put...
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I posted a new version of my Power Threading Library today on http://Wintellect.com/PowerThreading.aspx This version has some minor bug fixes and a few new (minor) classes. See the Power Threading Overview.pdf file for change log information....
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As I have written in the past , I have a bit of a "love-hate" relationship with Lenovo and their ThinkPad line, but its way more on the love side because their hardware utterly rocks. As it was getting time for a new laptop, I surfed over to the Lenovo...
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Most developers realize that PDB files are something that help you debug, but that's about it. Don't feel bad if you don't know what's going on with PDB files because while there is documentation out there, it's scattered around and much of it is for...
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Last week I found myself needing a Silverlight layout control that arranges its items radially so I could use it to template a ListBox. A quick Web search revealed a number of RadialPanel implementations, but none that offered the features I needed. For...
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A few weeks ago, I blogged about a sample application I wrote that uses Silverlight 3's WriteableBitmap class to draw views of the Mandelbrot set. I hadn't used it long before I realized that it really needed Back-button support. You could drill down...
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If you've worked with Silverlight 3, you may have noticed that Visual Studio's Add New Item dialog includes an option for adding a "Silverlight Child Window" to your Silverlight project: The new child window feature makes it easy to add modal dialogs...
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As I've written in the past , I've been using VMware (both Workstation 6.5 and Server 1.04) for what seems like ages. They've served me well but I wanted to be prepared for two changes coming up this year. The first is Server 2008 R2, which is 64-bit...
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Missed Devscovery NYC? See the Keynote! If you couldn't make it to NYC last week to have a blast at Devscovery , we missed you. One of the most interesting parts was Scott Hanselman's keynote on Social Networking for Developers . Scott, with the help...
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Chances are that you haven't heard about VirtualBox . It is yet another virtualization environment, but it has some great features. It has support for Linux/OSX/Windows as the host OS and Linux/BSD/Windows/etc as guest OSes (both x86 and x64), it supports...
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If I had a dollar for every time a developer has said to me "You mean a style can only be applied to an object once in Silverlight? How brain dead!" or "Why doesn't Silverlight support BasedOn styles like WPF?", I'd be retired on a tropical island with...
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One of Silverlight 3's prominent new features is its built-in navigation framework. This framework allows you to break your content into navigable chunks, or "pages," that derive from the new System.Windows.Controls.Page class. Pages are addressable by...
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One of the overarching goals when designing a Silverlight application is to minimize the size of the XAP file. The smaller the XAP file, the faster the application loads. In Silverlight 2, one way to prevent external BCL assemblies such as System.Xml.Linq.dll...
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Silverlight is a browser plug-in that enables browser-based applications to display rich, XAML-based UIs, execute managed code, and leverage the .NET Framework Base Class Library. Thus it may come as a surprise to some that in Silverlight 3, applications...
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