August 2008 - Posts

Saturday, August 23, 2008 9:30 AM

Until we meet again...

You left so sudden I couldn't even say goodbye. You've lived a hard life, but did everything to make mine easier. Your faith, courage and love will continue to live on through your words and wishes: " Love one another ". I'll miss you, Mom!
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Friday, August 15, 2008 3:28 PM

Creating splash screens with Expression Designer

Did you know you can create cool looking splash screens for your WPF application right there with the Expression Designer ? Of course you did. Expression Designer provides you with all you need to create free-shaped, part-transparent, drop-shadowed graphics
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Monday, August 11, 2008 2:03 PM

Splash Screen in WPF 3.5 SP1

Besides improving application startup time, .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 also allows developers to add a splash screen to WPF applications. The splash screen is shown using native code, even before WPF application starts to load. In reality this means the splash
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Monday, August 11, 2008 2:12 AM

Live Europe Weather Map in action

As promised , here’s my Live Europe Weather Map in action . This is still just a basic example of displaying icon pushpins on a map, and because I’m using Virtual Earth ASP.NET Map Control , I don’t need to worry about how map is handled and pushpins
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Saturday, August 09, 2008 12:50 AM

VSM4WPF

While next release of WPF (3.5 SP1) won't yet align with Silverlight's " Parts & States Model "  by not introducing VisualStateManager into its API, it's good to know that VSM is definitely coming to WPF. Even more, John Gossman has
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Friday, August 08, 2008 11:09 AM

Silverlight Olympics

Want to tune into 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games with Silverlight ? Not in the United States, you say? Well, tough luck ;) This IP restriction thing is getting sillier by the day... Isn't Internet supposed to be global? What happened to World Wide
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 11:57 AM

The tide is high – new MS downloads

SQL Server 2008 RTM is out! Microsoft Sync Framework v1.0 RTM is out! Sync Services [now @ v2] is “synchronized” with Sync Framework Peer 2 peer database sync support Sync with device’s Database SQL2008 Change Tracking supported Sync process tracing A
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Monday, August 04, 2008 2:28 PM

Live Europe Weather Map with Windows Live Tools Map Control

A while ago I built a sample weather map using Atlas [now Microsoft Ajax] and VirtualEarthMap control, which used real-time data to display current weather conditions. VirtualEarthMap control was steadily progressing all this time as a part of a separate
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