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I’ve been asked about what will happen at the BUILD conference ( http://www.buildwindows.com ) many times over the past few weeks and how it will or won’t affect existing client technologies like Silverlight, WPF and so on. There’s very little that I can say around this area – the company is, understandably...
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I did a fun talk on Expression Blend at the recent DevDays conference at the Hague in Holland. The basic idea of this talk was to (as much as possible in 75 minutes) take Expression Blend from scratch through to putting something together that involved things like; layout, resources, styles, data-binding...
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Borrowing the content from Karl’s original blog post – there’s a new book on Prism available from O’Reilly or Amazon with an eBook on its way and the MSDN materials here What’s In The Book? Prism helps you to design and build flexible and maintainable WPF and Silverlight applications by using design...
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If I had a penny for every time I heard someone from Microsoft say “I’m not a designer” when working with Blend then I’d be a rich man. Naturally, Microsoft does have some very fine designers but, unfortunately, it’s not me so I also end up having to say the dreaded “I am not a designer” phrase. I say...
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At the UK TechDays online conference last week there were a number of sessions around Silverlight and Windows that I wanted to provide follow-up resources on here. Session: Modern Windows Applications Visit Develop For Windows Download the WPF Ribbon Control and get the information on it here Download...
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Blend seems to have been a little schizophrenic with regard to whether it wants you to write code inside the environment or not. Going from memory I think version 1 had a code editor and then 2 took it out and 3 might have put it back and beefed it up and 4 definitely still has one. Generally, I’d say...
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Following on from that previous post I thought it might be interesting to look across the controls that ship with the various frameworks (i.e. WPF, Silverlight and Silverlight for WP7) and see how they respond to being dropped into a touch-based interface. I thought I’d take a smattering of controls...
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Following on from that previous post I promised to make a simple example where an application would display 2 pictures and a single-finger drag would flip from one picture to another. Here’s my example as a WPF application, a Silverlight application and a Windows Phone 7 application; and all 3 are responding...
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quick note – this post has a lot of sketchy code in it that I’ve not really tidied up – apply a pinch of salt and look for better examples elsewhere as I’m just trying to skate across the surface of the different API options. Following up on that previous post , I thought I’d carry on a little and think...
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“Someone’s got it in for me, They’re planting stories in the press. Whoever it is I wish they’d cut it quick, but whether they will I can only guess.” “Idiot Wind” , Bob Dylan, 1974 A couple of lines that seemed relevant to me in all the commentary that I’ve seen since the PDC last week and the...
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Following on from that previous post I wanted to take a look at processing raw touch events. In truth, I suspect that most application developers don’t want raw touch events and would rather work at the level of gestures and/or manipulations but being able to get access to the raw events at least means...
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Multi-touch interfaces are becoming more and more prevalent. This week saw the launch of the Windows Phone 7 where the interface is mostly (or almost entirely in the case of phones without keyboards) touch driven and it’s hardly alone amongst the Android, iPhone and iPad devices for making use of multi...
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Sure, it’s an attention-grabbing title and, of course, it’s complete nonsense. I was watching the #Silverlight and #WPF tags on Twitter this week and saw a stream of noise about how various client technologies from Microsoft are “dead” and the killer seemed to be a mixture of Flash or HTML5 or even one...
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Morgan ( a double ex-colleague of mine and all round genius ) has got an interesting blog post over here on how he finds it painful to implement commands in WPF application and a possible way around some of that pain via custom type descriptors. I spotted this via Sam’s response over here on Functional...
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Earlier in the year I dropped in to see some former colleagues of mine who are working on a new product/service called KoodibooK at their software company in Bath (UK). KoodibooK is a product that allows you to build up a set of photographs into a book, publish that book to an online store and then buy...