I have been futzing with WPF/E today trying to get the concepts down and when I looked up, I saw a post from Mike Taulty that said telerik has Silverlight radControls!
The “blimey” comes from MIke, because the relative American exlamation is R-rated! 🙂
Very cool demos.
It took me a while to figure out how to get the WPF/E project template into Visual Studio 2005. Read more…
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Somasegar announced (with great pride) the availability of the first Beta of Visual Studio Orcas a few days ago. There is a huge VPC available for download, but also express versions. Some other varieties (perhaps an MSI installer) are coming on MSDN Subscriber downloads as well. READ MORE
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I finally noticed that Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005 corrected two of the problems that I’ve mentioned in previous articles and blog posts about ClickOnce. read more…
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I wrote an article for .NET newbies for DevSource called Getting Started with .NET Programming. It goes over the basic “what is .NET” question, then how to get your hands on the dev tools and then lists gobs of resources. It’s short and sweet.
If you know anyone who is asking these questions, feel free to send them over that-a-way.
I hadn’t, so when I needed a calendar I could put info onto in a web app (like the one on your wall), it took me a while to realize that all I needed was right at my fingertips. Read more …
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I had a wierd problem with tabbed data in a TextBox and need to get around it. WPF offered a solution, but I had to opt for straight .NET 2.0 anyway. Read more…
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I needed to use a monospace font in a report but did not want Courier as it looked too different than the rest of the text on the report. I did end up going with Lucida Console, but on the way to that decision, found a nice resource from someone who made a list of 22 monotype fonts along with some details about each and where to get them from.
The January 8th VTdotNET meeting is shaping up with a LOT of people demoing their favorite tools.
Here’s the roster so far:
VTdotNet’ers show off Developer Tools We Love
Chris DeGuise: ReSharper (20)
Dave Burke: CodeSmith (20)
Rob Hale: Beyond Compare (10)
Bret Griswold: Code Charge Studio (10)
Julie Lerman: SnagIt, PureText, TimeSnapper & 2 PowerToys(15)
Mike Soulia: XMLSpy (xpath features) (15)
Bob LoCicero: NotePad++, ExamDiff, SyncToy, XmlNotepad & Toad Free Modeller (15)
It’s going to be fast, furious and fun!
Thanks to Altova for steppinig up to sponsor the pizza and soda for the meeting.