Okoboji: a lake, a mythical university, Kevin Moore's blogKevin Moore, Program Manager, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), WinFXUpdates to 2 must-have applications! Both managed code! Both free (as in beer)!- February 22, 2007 Paint.NET ROCKS! I can't imagine ever paying for Photoshop. Now in version 3.0. The killer new feature: MDI. Awesome. Reflector .NET ROCKS! (Via Chris, Via Chris.) Take a look at the PowerPoint deck for full details of v5.0. The killer new feature: Full C v3.0 support. Awesome.http://blogs.msdn.com/okoboji/archive/2007/02/21/updates-to-2-must-have-applications-both-... Windows Vista: What Should WebSite Hosters Do- February 21, 2007 Check out Rob's blog on instructions for ISP's (or anyone that runs a server) on how to host WPF content (XBaps, XPS docs, etc). If you're a WPF fan, link to this post. T'would be good to build awareness on this topic.http://blogs.msdn.com/okoboji/archive/2007/02/21/windows-vista-what-should-website-hosters... On ItemTemplate, ContentTemplate, DataTemplate- February 13, 2007 A recent forum post asked how one could build out ItemsControl-like functionality in a custom control. Let me start from the basics. ContentPresenter presents content. If you give it a UIElement (Grid, Button, Border) it will just display it. Easy enough. If you give it "data" (Customer, Order, Int32) it will display it using a DataTemplate. DataTemplate is to data as ControlTemplate is to Control. It lets one define a tree of visuals that represent a given DataContext. Robby and I chatted...http://blogs.msdn.com/okoboji/archive/2007/02/12/on-itemtemplate-contenttemplate-datatempl... Programmer Don't Like to Code- February 6, 2007 Forgot what link brought me here, but I was quite impressed with the analysis. Programmer's Don't Like to Code ...they like problem solving. If programmers liked to code, wed all be writing in machine language to this day. You can write that stuff all day and get precious little of the real problem solved. If programmers liked to code, they wouldnt value a language by its libraries. If programmers liked to code, every last one of us would be overjoyed to write our own HTTP client. Interesting.http://blogs.msdn.com/okoboji/archive/2007/02/05/programmer-don-t-like-to-code.aspx |