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Shazzam development is moving again
Shazzam is changing. There hasn’t been much improvement to Shazzam this year and that’s a shame. Especially since there is an influx of Silverlight developers exploring the benefits that pixel shaders bring to...
Shazzam, my pixel shader utility continues to show up in books, blogs and articles.
The latest sighting is in:
Silverlight 3 Programmer’s Reference By J. Ambrose Little, Jason Beres, Grant Hinkson, Devin Rader, Joe Croney Read an excerpt
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Recently I was talking to a friend about Visual Studio 2010 - specifically about changes we were hoping to see. He had brought up how annoying it was to only be able to see 6-7 tabs in VS2008 before you had to use the dropdown arrow to navigate between...
Pixel ShaderEffects are staring to go mainstream. Now the Silverlight 3, WPF and Expression Blend support Shader Effect I expect to see a blossoming of effects libraries. Case in point. Charles, over at digitalepiphania.com has an new pixel...
Erno de Weerd has released a plug-in for Windows Live Writer that simplifies inserting a Silverlight application into your WordPress blog post. It’s works in conjunction with Tim Heuer’s Silverlight WordPress plug-in. Learn more about...
In a previous post I mentioned ways to speed up IE8. For me, having used Spybot a long time ago proved to be the culprit: it had added a slew of sites (hundreds) to the blocked sites zone. I removed it and all was well.. Or was it? I noticed that IE8...
Completely unrelated to anything on this site, I wanted to talk about IE8 for a minute. It looks like a great browser, but on my home machine, just spinning up a tab took about 3 seconds. When I noticed that other people did not have this problem, I started...
Please update your bookmarks, because the new url of this blog is http://khason.net/ (you have not update RSS feeds, it will be done automatically). Why I did it? Why I decided to go to “stand-alone”… Well. there are some reasons. Generally, I do not...
Hi, folks. And thank you for reporting issues with WpfPerf Performance Profiling tool . Now it was fixed , so, download and use new and fixed version . Keep reporting, as you can see, you have the power to change! Imaginary by Malcolm Dare Read More....
Developers love to create utility tools. When you find that you want to simplify you programming life you look for a tool to solve the problem. If you can’t find one, you start dreaming how to build one yourself.
Whenever a new standard like...
Three days ago, I announced the new release of WPF Performance Profiling Tool . A couple hours after this was announced, I got a number of comments from you, readers. It was about issues with running this tool. I checked the issue and forwarded it to...
Finally, after a long time of silence, the new version of WPF Performance Profiling Tool is available for download for x32 and x64 OSs. So, what’s new there? Ton of UI improvements for Visual Profiler New search function to quick find elements in...
I’m kind of a tool freak, and when mouse gestures were added in some browsers, I really felt they added value. I was interested in using gestures in more applications (like Visual Studio) and found the tool ‘ StrokeIt’ . It is a great tool, fast, accurate...
I installed IE8 beta 2 yesterday and it rocks. It is much faster than IE7, seems rock stable (fingers crossed) and has all kind of nifty new features. It has taken away my need for Firefox at the moment. In FF I had a button that allowed me to subscribe...
For all those who asked, .NET 3.5 SP1 is final and available for download. What’s inside? ASP.NET Dynamic data Core improvements for CLR A lot of performance improvements in WPF ClickOnce enhancements ADO.NET with Data Services and Entity Framework LINQ2SQL...
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