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5 Course Saké/Tapas Tasting @ Yama Japanese Restaurant — Bellevue

XamlXaml.com — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:45:56 GMT

Yama in Bellevue is having a great 5 course saké tasting with tapas on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008. It is $70/person, starts at 6:30 with the following menu: The saké will be: Kasumi Tsuru Kimoto Watari Bune 55 Shichi Hon Yari Taiheikai Tokubetsu Junmai...(read more)

In Another Direction…

XamlXaml.com — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:25:29 GMT

My career has taken quite a few turns in the last year or so. I now find myself in the mobile phone industry. Software development for mobile devices is a whole other ball of wax than that for the desktop. While the purpose of this blog was originally...(read more)

Shadow Copies Saved My Live

Brownie Points — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:13:09 GMT

I'm a control freak...when I delete something, I want it gone like now. I don't want it to go to a recycle bin so I can retrieve it later. Get off my computer...NOW. So when I delete a file, I always use Shift+Delete to bypass the "send to...(read more)

[Silverlight] Comment échanger des données entre une application Silverlight et une page ASP.NET via cookies ?

Thomas Lebrun — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:58:56 GMT

Il est parfois nécessaire, dans une application Silverlight, de communiquer avec "l'extérieur". Dans la majorité des cas, on aura tendance à utiliser un Web Service mais qu'en est-il lorsque vous souhaitez communiquer avec la page ASP...(read more)

Alan Turing

Andrew Stopford's Weblog — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:56:00 GMT

Jeff Attwood has a post on possibily the greatest man in the computing age, Alan Turing. As Jeff states during WW2 Alan helped break the enigma code and went on to become one of the fore-fathers of AI. There are several books on Alans life that are well...(read more)

Commercial version of Ab3d.Reader3ds available

Tools and libraries for WPF and Silverlight — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:00:15 GMT

As promised the commercial version of Ab3d.Reader3ds is available. The purchase can be done on http://www.wpf-graphics.com/Purchase.aspx . As rss subscriber I give you 10% launch discount. Just enter "Reader3dsRss" as a discount code on the...(read more)

MbUnit v3 in Visual Studio Team System 2008

Andrew Stopford's Weblog — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:46:00 GMT

One of the changes made in MbUnit v3 alpha 3 was support for the Visual Studio Team System test runner. As Jeff points out, we are the first to offer this kind of support. At the moment the support is experimental but we will be driving foward more in...(read more)

MbUnit v3 beta 3 updates

Andrew Stopford's Weblog — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:56:00 GMT

Jeff has news on a couple of updates to the MbUnit v3 beta 3 release including. R# 4.0 final support Factory attribute support Repeat and ThreadedRepeat attributes support CSV data source metadata Pex support Contract verifiers The R# 4.0 support does...(read more)

[WPF] Comment cloner un contrôle WPF ?

Thomas Lebrun — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:47:00 GMT

La semaine dernière, pour les besoins d'un client, j'ai eu besoin de trouver le moyen de cloner un objet graphique WPF afin d'en avoir une copie. Dans la plupart des cas, on peut se dire qu'appeler la méthode Clone suffit. Seul petit problème...(read more)

Walt Mossberg heaps praises on the HP TouchSmart PC - or maybe not…

GeekTieGuy — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:37:27 GMT

Here’s the summarizing headline/link: The TouchSmart Has Improved–But Not Enough I’m surprised at how relatively positive the article is. Thanks Mr. Mossberg! Share This Read More......(read more)

[Perso] Tom.MVP.Years++ && Tom.MVP.Category = "Client Application Development"

Thomas Lebrun — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:36:07 GMT

En voila un titre sans doute un peu bizarre Enfin bref, juste pour vous dire que je viens d'être renouvellé MVP avec cependant un changement de catégorie: de MVP C#, je passe à MVP Client Application Development. Cette catégorie contient tout les...(read more)

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Andrew Stopford's Weblog — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:23:00 GMT

I post this every year, but I was a day late this year. I turned 32 yesterday, your only as old as you feel they say, I feel about 50 :) Read More......(read more)

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Andrew Stopford's Weblog — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:23:00 GMT

I post this every year, but I was a day late this year. I turned 32 yesterday, your only as old as you feel they say, I feel about 50 :) Read More......(read more)

[Silverlight] Retrouver la WatermarkTextBox de Silverlight 2

Thomas Lebrun — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:42:15 GMT

Dans la Beta 1 de Silverlight 2, on disposait d'un contrôle bien sympathique nommé WatermarkTextBox. Ce contrôle vous permettait d'afficher, dans la zone de saisie, du texte qui disparaitrait dès lors que l'utilisateur entrerait lui-même du...(read more)

What's Up With Caliburn?

.NET & Funky Fresh : WPF — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:19:19 GMT

After asking some questions of the community and doing some thinking, I've finally devised a plan of action for Caliburn: I'm going to freeze the current source code where it's at. Anyone who is using it can be assured that it's...(read more)