wintellect-blogs|Jul 7, 2011

Atlanta Code Camp Demos

Another fantastic Atlanta Code Camp!   Big kudos go out to the crew that threw this together this year in record time and did a fantastic job.  I heard nothing but positive comments from everyone that I talked with.  Big thank you to the sponsors, volunteers, organizers, speakers, and attendees! I gave two presentations this year:…
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Blogs|Jun 28, 2011

Moving further towards the Dark Side

I’ve been a proponent of dark coding environments for many moons, back to Turbo C++ and that blue.  In fact, my current Visual Studio template started way back in the first version of Visual Studio for .NET. I actually painstakingly hand-copied my colors from HomeSite. At the recent Atlanta Code Camp, I overheard someone ment…
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wintellect-blogs|Jun 15, 2011

Atlanta Code Camp is open for Registration

Atlanta Code Camp has finally been confirmed for this year and will take place on Saturday. June 25, 2011 at Southern Tech in Marietta, GA.  I’ll be reprising my CodeStock talks on Intro to MEF with Silverlight and Intro to Jounce MVVM Framework for Silverlight.  There are a lot of other really great sessions planned…
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wintellect-blogs|Jun 6, 2011

Another Great CodeStock!

Once again, CodeStock was awesome and the CodeStock crew took care of everything and made it look easy!  All of the attendees that I had chance to speak with had nothing but good things to say.  Big thank you to the CodeStock sponsors, volunteers, organizers, speakers, and attendees!   I gave two presentations this year:  Intro…
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wintellect-blogs|Sep 9, 2009

Happy Beatles Day

In case you didn’t know, The Beatles re-masters are being released today (9/9/9).  Even more exciting is the fact that you will be able to get all of them in mono and in stereo.  So, you can hear them the way they were meant to be heard!!  From my understanding, though, the mono versions will…
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wintellect-blogs|Jul 1, 2009

Prism Presentation – Code and Slides

I recently had the pleasure of speaking at CodeStock 2009 and was very impressed with the conference overall.  The folks behind this conference put in a lot of work and did a really great job.  I got the chance to see some really good presentations as well.  I look forward to attending CodeStock in the…
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Blogs|Feb 12, 2009

Silverlight UI Rant #2 – ListBoxItem

Tonight’s recipient of my UI Rant is the Silverlight 2 ListBox, or more specifically, the ListBoxItem.  A client recently asked me to provide an alternating row style like the DataGrid for the ListBox.  Now, if you’ve ever tried to add a border or background to your ListBoxItem, you’ve seen this: No problem, you say, I…
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wintellect-blogs|Feb 5, 2009

Silverlight UI Rant #1

If you’ve used the the Silverlight 2 DataGrid, you’ve no doubt seen this: I really hate when this happens!  I’ve seen several forum discussions where folks were looking to get rid of this nastiness, so I know I’m not the only one losing sleep over it.  I haven’t come across a solution in anything I’ve…
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Blogs|Feb 3, 2009

HtmlPage.PopupWindow vs. HtmlWindow.Navigate

I was recently looking at various ways of launching an external window from inside a Silverlight 2 application.  Dusting off your javascript brain cell, you’ll recall that to open a popup dialog in “the old days”, we’d use window.open().  I knew about the HtmlBridge available in Silverlight 2 and I had used it for several…
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Blogs|Jan 22, 2009

Yngwie Malmsteen syndrome (Silverlight 2 Scroller revisited)

Earlier this month, I blogged about a Silverlight 2 Scroller control that I had labored over for the better part of a weekend.  The entire time I was working on this Scroller, I had this small, dirty feeling that what I had created was somehow way more than what I needed to accomplish my end…
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Blogs|Jan 15, 2009

Silverlight System.ExecutionEngineException

Just a quick note that will hopefully save someone the pain that I just went through chasing yet another exception in Silverlight with nothing to go on from Visual Studio.  (I really hope that there is some better feedback coming on Silverlight applications when you hit a runtime error in the future).  Anyway, I was…
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wintellect-blogs|Jan 12, 2009

Silverlight 2 Scroller

01/22/09: Scroller updated in this post.  Last week I had the opportunity to really dive into some fun with a Silverlight 2 ListBox.  It all started with a requirement for a simple Scroller control.  You know, the simple left-to-right scrollers that you see in so many applications?  I’ve seen them in several applications, yet when…
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