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For the past six months or so I've been experimenting with and then "preaching" the idea of developing with two tools: Expression Blend for the UI and Visual Studio for the code. This has paid big dividends for me in productivity and it fits in well with...
About twice a year I try to publish a list of the utilities that I use all the time… not the ones I like in theory, but the ones that I use – that make programming or computing easier, faster, better. Here's my list for the end of 2008. Programming...
We have, I think, officially passed the point where anyone can keep up with the new technology available for developers, just from Microsoft (let alone all the new options from all the other companies), and PDC is les than a week away. A totally indefensible...
Tim and I and many others have been discussing, off and on, the frequent requests for videos/tutorials/demos, etc. that show how to move data into and out of databases and display them in Silverlight. On the one hand, my response is that the very question...
Okay, I never thought this was an issue I was likely to face, but the folks in Marketing wanted to run this ad, and so I was faced with that interesting question of what we used to call “Selling Out.” (yeah, yeah, i work for Microsoft, so my radical friends...
In my earlier column i referred to the nice new look of the Silverlight 2 controls. I couldn't resist throwing together a very fast application (using Blend to lay it out, and Visual Studio to bind the data) showing off a few of the controls. Not an ideal...
When I wasn’t looking this Website/Mindware got a lot better. Visual Thesaurus is an on-line subscription tool (~$3/month) that you can also buy as a desktop utility, that allows you to put in a word and see its related words visually. I put in play and...
I admit it, this has little to do with Silverlight per se, but it is such a useful utility, and I use it so much all day (including when I’m programming) that I thought I’d share it with you, at least briefly. Every time you copy anything to the clip...