wintellect-blogs|Feb 29, 2012

Initial Thoughts After Using the Dev 11 Beta for Two Weeks

So today is the day everyone gets to see if that monochrome/metro UI look for Visual Studio Dev 11 works. Given the huge number of “constructive criticism” comments  that everyone gave on the first look it will be very interesting to see what people think once they get their hands on it. Because of some…
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wintellect-blogs|Feb 29, 2012

Windows 8 Consumer Preview 101

It’s finally here! Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you have heard the buzz around the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. If you haven’t had the opportunity to grab it and install it, I suggest you browser over to this link now and download your copy! There are many exciting new features, and this post…
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wintellect-blogs|Feb 24, 2012

Going to the MVP Summit (or in Seattle)? We’d Love to Meetup!

So I guess February 29th ought to be quite interesting with Windows 8 Consumer Preview and VS 11 being released. An even more important date is Monday February 27th as that’s when we are holding a Wintellect Tweetup where we want to hear your thoughts on all the new announcements. We’ll have fellow Wintellectuals, Jeremy…
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wintellect-blogs|Feb 21, 2012

Programmatically uninstalling Silverlight Out-Of-Browser Application

Every once in a while there comes a need to provide a mechanism to uninstall your application programmatically.   For Silverlight Out-Of-Browser applications , there seemed to be no way to accomplish it.  Fortunately, there’s a work-around that trusted OOB applications running in Windows can use. Silverlight OOB applications are launched via the “sllauncher.exe” command.  And…
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wintellect-blogs|Feb 15, 2012

Vote to Treat TFS as an Enterprise Symbol Server

Ed Blankenship has a brilliant idea to make symbol servers even easier to use. He wants TFS itself to serve up the symbols instead of requiring you to create the file share and fight with the network admins to get it backed up. Ed’s got a wonderful proposal on his blog about how the feature…
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wintellect-blogs|Feb 9, 2012

Windows 8: The Facts about ARM, Metro, and the Blue Stack

Many eyes will be focused on Barcelona on February 29, 2012 when Microsoft releases the Windows 8 Consumer Preview or what many are calling the beta version of the new platform. You’ve probably heard quite a bit about the Metro interface. It has design roots in Zune, Windows Media Center, and Windows Phone. It presents…
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wintellect-blogs|Jan 31, 2012

Debugger Canvas 1.1 is Released

There’s a lot of UI research going on focused around better debugging. Debugger Canvas is some that you can use today and the version 1.1 was just released. The speed increased in 1.1 are great and make Debugger Canvas much more usable. I’m in love with the toggle button where you can flip between Debugger…
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wintellect-blogs|Jan 24, 2012

We Are Hiring!

Business is good and we need YOU! Wintellect is currently seeking senior level technical development resources for both contract and permanent employment for our current client projects. If you want the challenge of keeping up with co-workers like Jeffrey Richter, Jeff Prosise, Keith Rome, or Jeremy Likness, have we got the opportunity of a lifetime.…
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wintellect-blogs|Jan 24, 2012

Wintellect is Hiring!!

Business is good and we need YOU! Wintellect is currently seeking senior level technical development resources for both contract and permanent employment for our current client projects. If you want the challenge of keeping up with co-workers like Jeffrey Richter, Jeff Prosise, Keith Rome, or Jeremy Likness, have we got the opportunity of a lifetime.…
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wintellect-blogs|Jan 22, 2012

Video: Getting Started with Jounce MVVM and MEF for Silverlight 5

I created a quick video to help you get started with using Jounce. The video starts with a blank slate, steps through installation of Jounce and the creation of a sample view model for a simple contact record that includes validation. You can access the video directly at http://vimeo.com/jeremylikness/jounce-getting-started, or view it below: Jounce: Getting…
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wintellect-blogs|Jan 21, 2012

Jounce 2.0 MVVM with MEF for Silverlight 5 Released

I’m pleased to announce the official release of Jounce 2.0 for Silverlight 5. There are quite a number of new features available that I’ll review in this post. Most significantly, of course, the code base has been updated specifically to target Silverlight 5. A number of bug fixes, feature requests, and Silverlight 5 features have…
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wintellect-blogs|Jan 19, 2012

Paraffin 3.6–Now Keeping Custom Added Namespaces

Paraffin 3.6 can be downloaded here: https://www.wintellect.com/CS/files/folders/18310/download.aspx Dan Gough had an excellent feature request to have Paraffin copy over any manually added namespaces to the .WXS file like the following. Previously, Paraffin ignored them, but no more. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Wix xmlns:util="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension"      xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi"> I updated Paraffin to copy over any namespaces added to the Wix…
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