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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 some of the leading experts in their fields. But today is a new day. I’m off to a completely new adventure
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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 may read it on the Simple Talk website. I hope you enjoy it. http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net
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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 manual cleanup). I’ve also attached an XPS version and the DGML source.
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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 by the CLR team, an MSDN Magazine article as well as one in the MSDN Library. You can get a good
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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 interesting lectures I would like to share: The Art, Technology and Science of Reading by Kevin Larson
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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 cover topics such as Cloud Computing, Infer.NET, GPGPU, Axum and StreamInsight. Should be pretty interesting
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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 using bindings, styles, etc. You can read more about this in this post in Vincent Sibal’s blog
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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 ability to render ClearType (and even aliased text) in every scenario. The new stack is also supposed
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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 too many issues. The idea of using another window stayed in my head, and then I realized I could use
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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 a WPF application you must set the HwndTarget.BackgroundColor property to Transparent, which turns