Scott Hanselman introduced us to BabySmash today. It’s an app for his kids that he developed using his arcane Win32 knowledge in a WPF app. He did it on purpose, mind you, to teach himself WPF, with us watching. I think this is a fantastic idea. When I was writing the AutoComplete TextBox series, I [...] Read more »

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A regular reader would know I’m quite enamoured with the Cue Banner as UI tool. Once again, in WPF, Microsoft missed something fairly obvious for inclusion; and really easy to implement, as we’ll see. We’ve been through 2 revs of WPF since its release, and the number of new controls or new features on old controls is disappointing. In case you missed it, .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta was released a few weeks ago. The grand total of new controls in WPF? One; admittedly, a useful one – a WebBrowser control. Read more »

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The .NET framework is huge, but not so huge that it does everything for everyone; there are things that they in Redmond miss or don’t do for whatever reason but is still generally applicable to many developers. So, dear reader, I present to you a new series of posts on stuff I find missing in [...] Read more »

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The .NET framework is huge, but not so huge that it does everything for everyone; there are things that they in Redmond miss or don’t do for whatever reason but is still generally applicable to many developers. So, dear reader, I present to you a new series of posts on stuff I find missing in [...] Read more »

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The .NET framework is huge, but not so huge that it does everything for everyone; there are things that they in Redmond miss or don’t do for whatever reason but is still generally applicable to many developers. So, dear reader, I present to you a new series of posts on stuff I find missing in [...] Read more »

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