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I love HTML5 and I also love Silveright. I’m actually not too broken up about the emphasis on HTML5 at the PDC this year. HTML5 a nascent technology, it’s true. There are issues: We built agent8ball.com in about 4 weeks. It likely would taken about half...
One of the neatest additions to Expression Blend 3 is the Effects pane. You’ll find it in the Asset panel. This makes it dead simple to add an effect to an item on the Blend Artboard. Just drag the effect onto the desired item and you get...
Here’s a list of the Expression Blend specific talks next week at PDC 09. SketchFlow: Prototyping to the Rescue
See how SketchFlow lets designers and developers create, distribute, review and evolve compelling, rich prototypes cost-effectively and...
Here’s a list of the Windows 7 and DirectX specific talks next week at PDC 09. Windows 7 and Graphics
Windows Touch Deep Dive
Windows provides applications a default experience for gestures and touch interaction. Applications that want to go beyond...
Here’s a list of the Silverlight specific talks next week at PDC 09. Silverlight
Getting the Most out of Microsoft Silverlight 3
This is an all day workshop on Monday. It promises to be full of great content from developers working in the...
A common dilemma while attending big conferences is choosing which sessions to attend. Look around you at break time and you’ll see scores of attendees analyzing the conference schedule and making pencil marks next to the talks they find interesting...
You probably don’t need me to tell you that the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (affectionately known as PDC) is coming up soon. There are still plenty of tickets left for the event. Come on down, I’ll buy you a mocha...
Présentée par le père du langage C# (j’ai nommé le très célèbre Anders Helsjberg), cette session était sans aucun doutes l’une des plus intéressante à laquelle j’ai assisté durant cette PDC. Anders a commencé par faire un petit rappels sur les évolut...
L’objectif de cette session, présentée par Jamie Cool, était de démontrer les nouveautés apportées à Silvelright, en terme de développement d’applications métier. Après un bref rappel sur le besoin des applications métier, Jamie a enchainé sur une dé...
Cette session, co-animée par Kevin Gjerstad et Anson Tsao, avait pour objectifs de montrer ceux vers quoi se dirigait la technologie WPF. Nous avons commencé par avoir droit à une vidéo de présentation de différentes applications développées en WPF.....
Every few years the computer industry discovers a technology that dramatically improves our computing experience. Here’s a few of favorite technologies that have fundamentally changed the way you and I work with our computers. Add your...
Silverlight 2 released a few weeks ago. There were a few controls that were missing from the release however. Microsoft didn’t forget about these controls, instead they worked on them out of band and released them as a CodePlex project...
The WPF ribbon control is finally public. The ribbon control is easy to add to your WPF application. It allows you to add your own custom panels and controls. It has native support for the WPF Page journal, adding back and forward buttons...
Announced at PDC 2008
The Virtual Drive support in Windows 7 has some nice enhancements. There is now built in support for mounting existing VHD’s. You can create a new fixed or dynamic VHD from the drive control panel. My favorite...
Announced at PDC 2008.
Windows 7 has a new document management system called ‘Libraries’. Within Windows Explorer you can create multiple libraries. Each library has settings for file types ( *.docx, *.xlsx) and multiple locations...
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