Monthly Archives: November 2006

In my last post I discussed the 3 adorner spaces in the new Cider adorner placement API’s.  In this post I will discuss these API’s  in a little more detail.  Note at the time of this writing, the spcific class … Continue reading →

I have recently been redesigning the architecture used to specify adorner placement within Cider.  This is a good time for us to get to a common understanding of the coordinate systems that affect our adorners in WPF and how they can … Continue reading →

If you have a machine still running Windows XP SP2 and you’d like to play with some fun simple game development code, check out XNA Game Studio Express.  http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/xna/gse/ This install requires Visual C# Express to first be installed.  Visual … Continue reading →

WPF offers distinctly different techniques for rendering graphical elements. The top level is adding shape elements such as Rectangle, Ellipse, and Path to a Panel element. This is what we see in the multitude of XAML based samples. Below I … Continue reading →

Nikola is one of the QA members of the Cider Team.  He is now blogging at http://blogs.msdn.com/nikola/. Be sure to check it out and encourage him to blog more.

Well, I’ve survived yet another vacation.  After 1900 miles, 5 states, 8 tanks of gas, 5 hotels, 2 horseback rides I return home with 8 gigabytes of photos, aches, pains, more bug bites than I can count, and fine new … Continue reading →

 .Net Framework 3.0 has been announced.  It includes Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, and Windows CardSpace.  A new community site has been launched to support this, NetFx3.com   Check it out, sign up, and contribute!

For the May CTP we have improved the reliability of the Grid layout in Cider.  I’d like to hear your thoughts on how you like the features.  Particularly resizing the columns using the triangular handles verses the thin line of … Continue reading →

Patrick Meader, Editor in Chief of Visual Studio Magazine, talks about Cider in the February issue.  Brian Pepin had his blog mentioned as well.  In Monday’s architecture meeting I got Brian to sign my copy 😎  I’m sure I’ll fetch … Continue reading →

Well it’s been a few days since I have blogged.  I’m sorry.  Mostly the blame is on me.  A little I will put on Rob Caron who loaned me season 1 of both Lost and 24.  Both I really enjoyed … Continue reading →