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Rob's new gig (Kinect for Windows) & new blog (robrelyea.wordpress.com)
In my last blog post ( WPF, Family, Rowing in Feb 2011), I said: Haven’t been blogging much lately, but you can see a lot of me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/rrelyea Lots has happened since February...and I'm changing blog sites. Read on... Rob's...

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WPF, family, rowing
<WPF MoreFunStuffComing=”true” /> Haven’t been blogging much lately, but you can see a lot of me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/rrelyea I’m focusing 90% of my time on WPF vNext right now – having lots of fun working on it. WPF team has a blog ,...

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Another great example of how WP7 helps Silverlight/WPF
Just tripped on a blog post from a Microsoft F# team member where he says: “I finally deeply understand XAML, and I really now grok and appreciate the WPF architecture and all the terrific-looking UI you can easily create in a small amount of XAML or...

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BindingFinder Updates
I posted significant updates to BindingFinder today. The goal of bindingFinder, as I discussed on Twitter , has evolved to provide compile type checking of Bindings in your XAML. In order to do this as well as possible, BindingFinder relies on declarative...

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Software Should: “catch your eye and make you want to use it”.
I stole this phrase from a comment by ch00kz on the Bend text editor project on CodePlex . I think this is something very solid to build upon. I am very big on aesthetics and this program does catch my eye and it makes me "Want" to use it. Here...

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WPF Class Library Reference Poster
A few things brought this topic to my mind recently. 1) Chris Lovett asked me for a poster. I had no clue, but he eventually found Interknowlogy’s John Bowen’s work . (couldn’t find where the higher res photos are on the Interknowlogy website…) (also...

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MVVM, MVP, or code behind–all ok, as long as you build a great Ux
Interesting to see Davy Brion’s critique of MVVM and series explaining MVP in Silverlight/WPF . As a member of the Silverlight/WPF team, I want to ensure that our platforms enable exploring best practices for UI construction. I believe that Data Driven...

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Ensuring your WPF applications are Accessible
A few links that may help you understand how to ensure your WPF applications are accessible. 1) Ivo Manolov – “ Application Accessibility Testing ” A lot of our customers and partners have asked us to provide guidance on how to make their WPF and Silverlight...

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If you were selling WPF/Silverlight to a team in Microsoft, what apps would you show?
As aficionados of WPF/Silverlight, I’m interested to hear what WPF apps and/or Silverlight apps you would demo to application teams across Microsoft. If you were doing the demo, what apps would you use to make the most compelling cases for use of WPF...

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WPF or Windows Forms codeplex projects can be installed via clickonce now!
I kicked a 2 year old email thread with the ClickOnce team in late June to see if ClickOnce support on CodePlex was still in the plan. They said it was going to ship early July! They announced the release yesterday: How to deploy your codeplex project...

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Hey, you snooped my app! uh…thanks!
In an interesting post about “ thoughts on WPF 4 from a novice ” which discusses the effort to build MetroTwit , there are a bunch of interesting comments. My favorite is http://www.istartedsomething.com/20100711/thoughts-on-wpf-4-0-from-a-novice/#comment...

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VideoWall: Added vectorwall example
Posted a slightly enhanced code drop for video wall (see link to .zip on http://robrelyea.com/demos/videowall ): Took advantage of the fact that ViewportWindow can take a UIElement, not just a MediaElement, as the “masterElement”. Built a context menu...

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David Teitlebaum: VideoWall with WPF
David, a WPF/Silverlight graphics PM, did a short write-up recently on some tips that he has shared with customers doing VideoWalls. WPF applications can only run with hardware acceleration when their window's size does not exceed the maximum texture...

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"255 depth levels ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 2010
Some WPF customers have complained about this help that WPF tries to provide: Layout recursion reached allowed limit to avoid stack overflow: '255' We saw the feedback via this forum post , and thought we fixed it in 3.5sp1. I posted in April...

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I have a XAML problem…
We should all get in the habit of being very specific of what versions of tools and frameworks we are targetting when we run into problems. I recently replied internally to some vague question: We have so many XAML parsers/compilers/designers in this...

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