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Frankly, I thought that one of basic things in windows development, such as “debagability” and “installability” of services, were changed for the last 10 years in development environments. However I was disappointed to discover, that nothing actually...
At 1996-1997, together with Internet Explorer 3.0, Microsoft released API to work with media content (for example movies). They used to call it Quartz. This was very convenience set of interfaces and thus was widely used by industry. Now we call it DirectShow...
First of all, I want to apologies for not writing. From one hand, this is not a good think for me to disappeared from development community horizons, from other hand, I am investing all my time into our better feature, which is good thing. There are too...
Yesterday Visual Studio 2010 was released. This is very exiting, however from the moment I played with very first preview versions I had concerns regarding the performance of it code editor. So today I had some time to perform small face-to-face battle...
Because of my main job and lack of human resources there, I invest less and less in community. Thus I lost my MVP title. Sorry, guys. Also a ton of management tasks in big company prevents me from actual coding. However I am still able to find some time...
One of the most common problems in WPF is memory/processor time consumption. Yes, WPF is rather greedy framework. It become even greedier when using unmanaged resources, such as memory files or interop images. To take care on it, you can implement singleton...
For the last week most of WPF disciples are discussing how to get rid of hardcoded property name string inside INotifyPropertyChanged implementation and how to keep using automatic properties implementation but keep WPF binding working. The thread was...
Microsoft loves cumbersome licensing models . This is not because of their evil-heartedness, but because it make them possible to get more from bigger companies and less from smaller. However when you come into the real decision about how many and what...
As for me, there are only two kinds of projects – hobbyist’s nifty tools and systems (scale may wary). The main difference between those is the easiness of making changes and refactoring. Other words, how many other developers I should persuade to do...
There are some debugger-oriented attributes in .Net, however 70% of developers not even know that they exist and 95% of them has no idea what they doing and how to use it. Today we’ll try to lid light on what those attributes doing and how to achieve...
First of all, I want to beg your pardon about the frequency of posts last time. I’m completely understaffed and have a ton of things to do for my job. This why, today I’ll just write a quick post about checksum calculation in C#. It might be very useful...
There are some very cool downloads suddenly appear on MSDN download site due to all new technologies, presented at Mix ‘09. So let’s start Silverlight 3 SDK beta 1 If you do not want to install full SDK, you can install only runtime for Windows or Mac...
Small update today (mostly interesting links)… During my last “Smart Client” session I was asked about WPF LOB application development labs. So, there are two full labs, I noticed about: Southridge, which comes from Redmond team Order Manager, which comes...
Great thank to everybody attended yesterday at “Smart Client development” session. As promises, please see slides and desks from this session Smart Client Development View more presentations from tamirk. (tags: wpf israel) Related posts:Action...
My colleague just asked me about how to reduce a number of colors in image programmatically. This is very simple task and contains of 43 steps: First of all, you have to read a source image using (var img = Image.FromFile(name)) { var bmpEncoder = ImageCodecInfo...
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