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WinForms Control Updates in Progress

Feb 03 2012, 09:08 AM by The Actipro Blog - WPF, Silverlight, and WinForms Development

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...

New WPF QuickStart Showing Alternate Docking/MDI Themes

Feb 02 2012, 12:58 PM by The Actipro Blog - WPF, Silverlight, and WinForms Development

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...

WPF, Silverlight, WinForms Maintenance Releases

Jan 30 2012, 01:39 PM by The Actipro Blog - WPF, Silverlight, and WinForms Development

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...

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

Jan 25 2012, 09:28 PM by nerdplusart.com

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...

Bug fix: WPF4 project template for #MVVMLight V3

Jan 24 2012, 06:40 PM by WPF

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...

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

Jan 24 2012, 06:08 AM by Tamir Khason - Just code

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...

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

Jan 20 2012, 08:32 PM by .NET & Funky Fresh : WPF

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...

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

Jan 18 2012, 11:42 AM by sachabarber.net

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...

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

Jan 11 2012, 05:57 PM by nerdplusart.com

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...

Expression Blend 4, MRU location

Jan 11 2012, 01:20 AM by XAML Wonderland

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...

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