Community Blogs

sachabarber.net — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:52:58 GMT

Hey dear reader, I just noticed that one of my articles is up for best c# articles of the month over at codeproject this month. If you have read the article and truly think its worth a vote, maybe you could take 2 minutes to vote in monthly competiton...(read more)

WinForms Controls 2012.1 Beta Testing Begins

The Actipro Blog - WPF, Silverlight, and WinForms Development — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:38:47 GMT

We're very excited to be done with the development of the 2012.1 updates for our WinForms controls. Today we sent out a beta test to several customers and will continue testing the products ourselves. The official release will happen at...(read more)

Streaming results to web page using MSMQ/WCF/SignalR/JQuery

sachabarber.net — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:50:54 GMT

Where I work is a Fx (Foreign Exchange) company and we trade Fx for clients all over the world, and the other day my boss came up to me and stated that he would like to be able to visualise where trades where they were happening in real time, but he wanted...(read more)

WinForms Control Updates in Progress

The Actipro Blog - WPF, Silverlight, and WinForms Development — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:08:09 GMT

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...(read more)

New WPF QuickStart Showing Alternate Docking/MDI Themes

The Actipro Blog - WPF, Silverlight, and WinForms Development — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:58:37 GMT

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...(read more)

WPF, Silverlight, WinForms Maintenance Releases

The Actipro Blog - WPF, Silverlight, and WinForms Development — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:39:49 GMT

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...(read more)

Cut the Rope Backgrounds (A Top-secret Easter Egg)

nerdplusart.com — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:28:12 GMT

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...(read more)

Bug fix: WPF4 project template for #MVVMLight V3

WPF — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:40:09 GMT

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...(read more)

Self installable and runnable service or how to make generic service and console hybrid

Tamir Khason - Just code — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:08:13 GMT

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...(read more)

Boo-yah!!! Caliburn.Micro v1.3 RTW is Here

.NET & Funky Fresh : WPF — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:32:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Restful WCF / EF POCO / UnitOfWork / Repository / MEF article

sachabarber.net — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:42:46 GMT

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...(read more)

Why is there Flash in the HTML5 version of Cut the Rope?

nerdplusart.com — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:57:26 GMT

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...(read more)

Expression Blend 4, MRU location

XAML Wonderland — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:20:34 GMT

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...(read more)

Tracking Expression Blend 4 version numbers

XAML Wonderland — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:13:22 GMT

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...(read more)

C# MVP 2012

sachabarber.net — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:52:25 GMT

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...(read more)