Robby Ingebretson has stepped up the game with his new blog nerdplusart. Not only does the new site use a sweet Silverlight app for the homepage (with custom blur effect!) but its functional too. It cleverly provides his latest twitter and song choice along with links to more content.…
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After all of the interest shown in the WPF 3.5 SP1 graphics video, I was planning on writing a tutorial showing how to create your own simple custom effect. Noe need. Instead, I will point you to Anders Bursjöö Grayscale Effect tutorial. Anders walks step by step through the…
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With the release of WPF 3.5 SP1 Beta, many have written comprehensive text on the subject: Introducing the Third Major Release of Windows Presentation Foundation - Tim Sneath Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta - Scott Guthrie VS2008 and .Net 3.5 SP1 Beta - Shou…
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Mindscape recently announced the release of their WPF Property Grid. The Mindscape WPF Property Grid is a 100% WPF component for browsing and editing object properties. Use the WPF Property Grid to rapidly add features such as user configuration, preference editing and domain-specific designers to …
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On November 29th 2007, a group of people gathered together to study Silverlight. "What is it, really?", "What can I do with it today?" and "There really is more than just a Media?" were all questions answered that day. Video and audio of the event has been captured on the Silverl…
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Robby Ingebretsen stopped by on Halloween last week to not only discuss the holiday of tricks and treats but also the interesting story behind designers, developers and integrators. Robby has done a lot of thinking and work in this space, especially since joining Identity Mine where…
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The ZamDes user group just had their first meeting and I found this in their slides: Impressive. Most impressive.
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A new Wellington NZ based user group focused on WPF and Silverlight for designers will be holding their first meeting on Thursday the 13th of September. This is awesome to see. Now if only Wellington wasn't so far from here, I'd stop by :) From their about section: If you w…
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Today I posted two screencasts, created by Jaime Rodriguez, on Channel 9. Its a short two part series which provides an overview of "Cider", the WPF Designer surface, included in the recently launched Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2. In the first video, I was really impressed with the contro…
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In a recent Channel 9 video, Charles interviews Karsten Januszewski and Tim Aidlin about Flotzam. Take a spoonful of Twitter, add some Flickr and a dash of Facebook, optionally flavoring to you own taste with custom RSS support and you have an application that doubles as a screensaver flowing…
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Two years ago on this very date of June 20th, I started my first day here at Microsoft. It was an exciting day, it was just new employee orientation, but it was my first job in a technical company with more than 20 employees. I was hired on to become the newest web developer on the coole…
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I just came from a session given by Nathan Dunlap and Robbie Ingebretsen entitled “ZAP!, WHAM!, KAPOW!”: WPF and the Next Genertion of Online Comic Book Reading. And yes, it was as awesome as it sounds like as it should be. They presented an experimental WPF app designed to cr…
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All MIX07 attendees will receive a Commemorative Edition of Expression Studio, that combined with receiving a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate and you're ready set up a fresh new pc for designing your WPF and WPF/E apps. Very nice. I used to go to a fair amount of conferences and I don't re…
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I watched this video straight through, full command of my attention. On Channel 9, Micheal Wallent tells the history of WPF and provides interesting information on its current incarnation and where its heading. I had actually heard a little of this at MIX06 during the Mix Chat at the&nbs…
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When I first saw "Avalon" back in 2003, I was stunned (Vector Graphics, Hardware Acceleration, Rich layout and Controls, etc...). But Avalon is a very rich client and I've always been a web-based developer at heart, so once I saw the short demo of WPF/E yesterday I flipped out again. WPF/E…
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