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WinForms Control Updates in Progress
In a recent blog post, we mentioned that WinForms product updates were in progress.  I'd like to get into some more detail on what is to be expected from these updates. Update Overview Creation of WinForms Studio 2012.1 The next major WinForms...
New WPF QuickStart Showing Alternate Docking/MDI Themes
Earlier this week we posted new builds of many products, including WPF Studio.  The latest WPF Studio build now has a new QuickStart that shows how easy the Themes portion of WPF Studio makes it to customize other products such as Docking/MDI. The...
WPF, Silverlight, WinForms Maintenance Releases
We just published maintenance releases for all WPF and Silverlight controls, along with the WinForms SyntaxEditor and UIStudio products. WPF Controls The WPF Studio updates include numerous minor enhancements, tweaks, and bug fixes throughout nearly all...
Cut the Rope Backgrounds (A Top-secret Easter Egg)
Here’s a fun tip about the HTML5 version of Cut the Rope. If you launch the game with this web address: http://www.cuttherope.ie/?boxbackgrounds=true …then you’ll get a page background that changes depending on the box your playing. In the first box Read...
Bug fix: WPF4 project template for #MVVMLight V3
Ironically, my last release of MVVM Light V3 was about fixing bugs in templates and making them better. In the process however, seems that I introduced a regression bug in the WPF4 project templates. Yep *** happens. How do I know if I have the bug? Check...
Self installable and runnable service or how to make generic service and console hybrid
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...
Boo-yah!!! Caliburn.Micro v1.3 RTW is Here
I’m extremely pleased to announce the release of Caliburn.Micro v1.3 . This is a great release with many bug fixes and several API improvements. We also support several new platforms. Here’s the highlights: Support for WP7 Mango Support for...
Restful WCF / EF POCO / UnitOfWork / Repository / MEF article
Numerous people have asked me to create a LOB (line of business) app that showed how I would typically structure my layers between a front end and a database (this was mainly asked for by users of my Cinch MVVM framework) Whilst I have limited time, I...
Posted: Jan 18 2012, 11:42 AM by sachabarber.net
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Why is there Flash in the HTML5 version of Cut the Rope?
Monday was a big day Pixel Lab. We had the incredible opportunity of developing the HTML5 version of Cut the Rope for ZeptoLab (the brainiac creators of the game) and Monday was the launch. Overall, the feedback has been incredibly positive. It’s been...
Posted: Jan 11 2012, 05:57 PM by nerdplusart.com
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Expression Blend 4, MRU location
I’m working on my book for O’Reilly this month (HLSL and Pixel Shaders for XAML Developers).  If you’ve written books or articles yourself you know there is a lot of prep involved in getting your machine into a clean state for screenshots...
Tracking Expression Blend 4 version numbers
It’s a bit hard to know the version numbers for Expression Blend releases as the information is scattered about the Internet. Version Name Number Release Date Expression Blend 4, original release 4.0 June 7, 2010 Expression Blend 4 Service Pack...
Posted: Jan 09 2012, 07:13 PM by XAML Wonderland
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C# MVP 2012
A new year brings me good fortune, I have been made a Microsoft Visual C# MVP again for 2012. I am grateful, it’s a nice thing to get. I never work towards the goal of getting the MVP, I just do what I do, and consider it a nice thing to get, but...
RabbitMq With Shovel Plugin
Well a happy new year to you all. I thought I might start the new year of with a small article on using the popular Rabbit Mq message bus. But before I give you a link to the article this is what is the problem I was trying to solve: At work just before...
Posted: Jan 06 2012, 11:39 AM by sachabarber.net
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How I Lost, Regained and then Turned Down an MVP Award
What Happened To Me I’d say that 2011 was a pretty good year for me as a .NET open source developer. After all, Caliburn.Micro had it’s first official release in April 2011 just in time for the Mix Open Source fest. At the festival, the framework had...
Actipro Blog 2011 Q4 Posting Summary
What We Accomplished In this quarter, we released the 2011.2 versions of WPF Studio and Silverlight Studio .  Numerous major new feature areas were added to SyntaxEditor, and WPF saw the release of our new Themes for WPF product, which unifies and...
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