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When I heard earlier today that Microsoft had put all of the Microsoft PDC keynotes online , I was very excited. But I have to admit, it was for selfish reasons. Because I would finally get to tell one of my favorite experiences. Apologies for the self

Microsoft (and by "Microsoft" I mean an employee who has posted to his blog three times in the last two years) announced today that it's taking Indigo on the road with "Windows Communication Foundation - Compact Edition." It's a subset of WCF that runs

As the final runup to Vista RTM continues, Microsoft has announced at the .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly WinFX) has RTMed and is available on Microsoft Downloads. This is a significant milestone for the Developer Division, and delivers on some of the promise

I moving over to msn spaces...

Charles Petzold has been generating many interesting blog posts dealing with WPF/XAML. As part of his book writing effort ( Applications = Markup +Code ), he even created a XAMLPad like application called XAML Cruncher. It added a number of interesting

Just watched a short interview with IBloks showing off their new WPF application. I like Dancing man. I'm going to sign up for the beta...looking at their site it looks like they will sell backgrounds for $.99 and a game for $9.99 and media. Interesting

I just posted a set of 5 wpf technology demos that work on the January 2006 CTP showing: http://robrelyea.com/demos/wpfDemoShell Contains working versions of the following demos: Data Visualization (Auction items) Flow Document Layout (basic panels, layout

At the PDC, developers could try it out in the hands on labs. On Channel 9 last year, you could see demos . Now, you can download its first CTP (Customer Tech Preview) and check out a new Channel 9 video . I'm fantastically excited to see the first CTP

Ok, the confusion is over back on my old .TEXT blog. I tried WordPress . I liked it. However, I recieved a gracious invitation from Scott Belleware and Brendan Tompkins via email to join the CodeBetter community. Based on messages from their/our community

[ Topic from Main Blog ] This blog has been going since March 2002 when it was only me, Peter Drayton and Simon Fell as .NET bloggers. Its come a long way since then. I know I have a lot of loyal readers and a lot of people that recomend me on their blogs

Now that I got the mess working , I must say that the Orcas Designer from Avalon totally utterly rocks!!

I have battled with the December WinFX Runtime Components and Dec WinFX SDK on Dec Vista for the last 6 hours . I would keep getting errors like “WinFX Runtime Components Not Installed” (they were and they were Dec) or that it was the wrong version, like

So now that things are working, at least without Glass, I have kept going. The following is what I have tried installing: Installed Software Product Status Microsoft Office Professsional 2003 with SP2 Success but Outlook 2003 doesn't seem to retreive

Along with the release of WinFX , I should have noted explicitly that Vista and Vista Server Build 5270 have been made available for us testers on Microsoft Connect . These builds are also public builds available for MSDN Universal Subscribers. posted

Normally I am really excited about new releases of WinFX/Indigo but our team members just looked up after reading Tom Archer's post and said “***, we have to upgrade again.” As Tom says, “Go to my Windows Vista Get the Beta Web page to see a description

The much anticipated release of our November 2005 CTP of WinFX is here. See Tom Archer 's announcement with pointers to the installs. Karsten also posts some good information about the release. This is the last time you'll need to uninstall/clean your

Many people say that Databinding is one of the more impactful of the features in WPF. Namita wrote a great set of demos for her PDC talk about Databinding with WPF . As part of a few talks (some VB customers, a Vista + WPF talk , a talk at the Borland

I already see many queries about a build of WinFX that works with the just released VS/.Net Framework: 1 2 3 ... I've updated the information in my blog post about our installing our current CTP with the text in bold: Sorry, there is currently no build

If you are doing WinFX development with the WinFX September CTP you should stick with Windows Vista 5219 (PDC release) or XP or Server 2003 for now. Windows Vista 5231 released yesterday to msdn members (and other beta participants) is not compatible

The WinFX Sept CTP will not install on 5231 rendering this build of Vista useless for anything other than eye candy. In that department, the Windows Key-Spacebar stacking windows 3D thingie is gone too. Fab (-. Anyone from Microsoft know if there will