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I had a great conversation with Rob Relyea (Mr. XAML) yesterday about the future of Kaxaml and he shared a lot of very useful pointers about how to use some upcoming .NET 4.0 features to make Kaxaml super awesome. Looks like he’s already...
I got an email this morning that asked if Kaxaml development had been discontinued. The answer is a big huge no way, Jose. That said, it’s been a long time since I dusted off the Kaxaml source. Here’s where we are: 1) Unfortunately, Kaxaml is just a hobby...
I’ve gone a little dark on the blog lately, mostly due to a suddenly very busy schedule (a good thing for our small team of one at Pixel Lab World Headquarters). I’m excited, though, to share a little about at least one project I’ve been working on: Seesmic...
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A handy feature of WPF is the ability to tell TextBlock to truncate its text to ellipses if it runs out of room. You do this by setting the TextTrimming property on the TextBlock and voilah!, your text ends up looking “like this…” This is especially handy...
This is a long time coming. I finally created a version of Simple Styles that is designed for Silverlight. Woohoo! This was a rewrite, a complete departure from the WPF Simple Styles and it may still be a little rough around the edges so please send me...
Here’s a little time saver. I sort of have a routine that I go through when I create a new WPF project. One of those things is to create a resource dictionary (I’m down to one on most projects now, but more on that later) that includes some common stuff...
UPDATE #1: someone asked for the rest of the ResourceDictionary. It’s very basic, but here it is if you’re interested. Basically, it just contains sections for the various types of resources you might create.
Here’s a little time saver. I sort of have...
Funny how your own site is always the lowest priority when your job is to create websites for other people. It’s like the auto mechanic with the broken down car. Well, last week (while I was on vacation with the family) I was finally able to sneak a couple...
Jafar Husain told me that he was working on a challenge by Eric Lippert . David Anson followed and they posted solutions to the challenge on their blog. I thought it was quite a bit of fun so I quickly wrote something up that I like. I will copy the problem...
1. Stickers For those of you who have submitted haikus, it’s finally sticker time. I’ll be mailing them out in about a week. Between now and then, please send me a physical address where I can send the sticker. Also, let me know how many you want...
I just picked up the stickers and they turned out great and they also turned out in abundance. Who knew that 1,000 stickers is really about 5,000 stickers! So please take them from me. Track me down at MIX or submit your haiku! Read More...
Pete took me up on an my challenge to make a VS plugin for XAML Scrubber (the XAML cleanup utility in Kaxaml), a challenge which apparently I extended in this video with Adam Kinney. I’m glad he did. This is awesome. Thanks Pete! It...
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I was teaching someone about DependencyProperty the other day when I realized two things: first, DependencyProperty is a bad name. Does anyone know what they depend on (DependencyObject doesn...
Well, first of all, you’ll be happy to know that the sticker order has been placed. Now we just need to cross our fingers that they get printed and delivered in time. A month seems like plenty of time, right? That’s what I think and...
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