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Goodbye and hello, as always by aelij

Today I’m saying goodbye to Sela. I’ve been a senior consultant at Sela for the past 9 months, and it has been a good experience for me; I’m much more experienced with giving lectures and teaching classes. I’ve also had a chance to meet and work with...
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Reflectoron: Transform and Roll Out! by aelij

A few months ago I've decided to write a Prism tutorial by building a WPF UI for the .NET Reflector . Red Gate, the owner of Reflector, liked the idea so they asked me to write it for their magazine, Simple Talk. Today the article was published, and you...
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WPF Controls Class Diagram by aelij

I’ve prepared a class diagram for my students of main WPF controls, divided into Decorators, Panels, Content Controls and Items Controls. The diagram was generated using the new Visual Studio 2010 Visualization and Modeling Tools (with a bit of...
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Peaceful Coexistence by aelij

One of the new features in .NET 4.0 is Side-By-Side In-Process (SxS InProc) execution of older CLRs (e.g. .NET 2.0). Previously, SxS was supported only in different processes. If you look it up, you’ll find these two (yet to be updated) blog posts...
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MIX10 by aelij

I recently attended the Microsoft MIX10 conference in Las Vegas. I had a nice time, but mostly because of the location; Las Vegas is an interesting place. The conference itself was mainly a PR for the new Windows Phone, but there were a couple of very...
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My SDP Lecture: .NET Numerical Computing by aelij

Josh Reuben and I will be giving a lecture in the upcoming Sela Developer Practice about .NET Numerical Computing and Scaling Up ( DSE502 ). It is intended to be a swift yet exhaustive review of what’s available out there for .NET developers. We will...
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Local values in DependencyObjects by aelij

If you’re writing a custom control in WPF, you may have encountered a very annoying bug: if you set the value of a DependencyProperty in your implementation code, the local value will trump any changes that you may try to apply to this property...
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Hey La, Hey La, ClearType’s Back by aelij

One of the most referenced posts in this blog is the one dealing with the ClearType issues . Those of you who shared my pain will be glad to hear that Microsoft has delivered on its promise: WPF is getting a new text rendering stack in v4, which has the...
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Presenting PresentationHost by aelij

I always prefer simpler solutions. The solution I proposed on my previous post was not that simple, and was not complete. It may still be useful for other stuff, but for the purpose of preserving ClearType while using DWM, I just have to admit it has...
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Casper to the Rescue! by aelij

WPF has ClearType issues . Hopefully some of them will be solved in the upcoming .NET 4.0. Meanwhile, however, I have concocted a nifty solution to one of the scenarios – placing stuff on the Aero Glass DWM frame. When you extend the DWM frame in...
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Normality Restored by aelij

The past 24 hours have been a blogger’s nightmare for me. I wanted to upgrade my GoDaddy’s hosting account to IIS 7. Unfortunately, they do not have any upgrade option, so you have to call their customer service, cancel your current hosting...
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Theme Manager: A Hackly Hack by aelij

One of the most popular posts in this blog is the one explaining how to override the system theme and get the Vista look on non-Vista systems. This is possible because WPF ships with the theme files for all operation systems (well, all Microsoft OSs that...
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New Release of WPF Contrib by aelij

I've released a new version of WPF Contrib (October 2008, although it's released in November. I changed the release name a few times, so I decided to leave it like that. I'm only late by a few days. :) It contains quite a few fixes and new...
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Activator 2: XAML and Generics Day by aelij

First of all, you didn't miss part one. Just thought it was a funny reference . I'm currently working on a new release of WPF Contrib . In my TaskDialog class, I used a few classes I derived from ItemsControl (which I'm considering deleting in this version...
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License by aelij

I've added a license page to my blog. As indicated there, all code (unless noted otherwise) is released under the MIT license .
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