A couple of posts ago , I wrote about writing custom Effects.  The example that I dove into was ColorComplementEffect, an Effect that has no parameters other than the incoming "sampler" that it inverts the color on. This post is going to...

When troubleshooting ADO.NET Data Services, it's often handy to look at what content is actually being transferred between a client and a server. Thankfully there are a number of tools that allow you to do this without too much hassle. One of the...

WPF architect Greg Schechter was written a series of articles on the new hardware accelerated shaders recently released in beta form, as part of .NET 3.5 SP1 beta. This article includes some sample code that was enough to get me started down the path...

Jeff announced the release of Gallio alpha 3 yesterday , my time constriants at the moment meant I missed blogging Alpha 2 back in March but that release was a massive release in terms of features and the work that Jeff, Julian, Graham, Mark, Ben and...

Get it here . Discuss amongst yourselves at the forum . Don't miss Guy Burstein's guided tour . Here's the official word: Visual Studio 2008 With Visual Studio 2008, developers and development organizations have the tools that enable them...

Many managed applications start up slower than they really need to because of time spent verifying their strong name signatures. For most of these applications, the strong name verification isn't buying the application anything - especially fully...

The previous post in this series began to talk about writing custom Effects for WPF. We looked specifically at ColorComplementEffect, an effect with no parameters. In upcoming posts, we'll get into the details of multi-parameter effects and other...

Yesterday the WPF team shipped some major horsepower features in the vastly understated preview Service Pack to .NET Framework 3.5. It is an exception to the rule for an SP release to have features, and not just bug fixes. In the mold of Windows XP SP2...

Sorry for the lack of updates, but we've been pretty busy. On what, you may ask? Our PM, David Teitlebaum, just did a video on Channel 9 showing off the new features. He starts by covering interactive 2D on 3D and improved layered window support,...

Later today, I present @ VS Live the following talk ... Building Rich Internet Application using Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 In this session, we will build a Video Search Web Site using Silverlight 2.0. The session will demo – how to use Visual Studio to...

Monica Carlson, who was a champion on American Gladiators last season, also happened to be a model for Microsoft Surface. That's old news now. What's new is that last night she emerged from her contender status as a new American Gladiator with...

Yesterday I did a brief post about " WPF 3.5 & VS 2008 SP1 Beta ".  Now I follow it up with a list of content about this release.  I plan on growing this list as new content appears, so come on back... Channel9 Videos C9: Tim Sneath...

This question seems to get asked a lot, this recent article on codeproject does a decent job of explanation as well as this article from Infragistics Guidisan Todd Snyder . If I was sum it up very simply, the different is entry point into the pattern...

Someone in Silverlight forum asked for interesting question: “Is there any way that I can add/remove items in bulk from an ObservableCollection object?”. The “formal” answer is: “No, AddRange RemoveRange operators are supported for List<T> only...

As the Content Owner for PDC2008, I'm now a member of the Tier 1 Events Council at Microsoft. This is a group that meets a few times a year to share ideas and best practices around our largest events (like Tech·Ed , MIX, and PDC). We met all...