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Resolution Randomizer: I have always found it is hard to make meaningful New Year's Resolutions. Lucky for me, I ran across this cool Silverlight Application that helps you find a truly meaningful resolution... if you don't like the one you get, just click "Randomize" and try Read More...
Posted 26 December 08 05:03 by BradA | 10 Comments
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Silverlight 2 DataGrid December 2008 Release: We are very happy to get out a bug-fix release of the Silverlight 2 DataGrid. It should be very easy to simply drop this into your project and the get the benefits of a bunch of bug fixes.. This updated DataGrid contains almost 30 fixes to the top issues Read More...
Posted 19 December 08 03:42 by BradA | 12 Comments
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Let Silverlight Power Your Netflix Experience!: As I am sure you have heard, Netflix is moving over to using Silverlight for their very cool streaming video service. This is already the default experience on the mac, but if you are a PC user you need to opt in to this experience for now as they are Read More...
Posted 18 December 08 04:46 by BradA | 3 Comments
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Framework Design Guidelines: An appeal for consistency: Continuing in our weekly blog post series that highlights a few of the new additions to the Framework Design Guidelines 2 nd edition .. This content is found in the Names of Classes, Structs, and Interfaces section of Chapter 3: Naming Guidelines. Even Read More...
Posted 15 December 08 07:03 by BradA | 7 Comments
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Framework Design Guidelines: Naming New Versions of Existing APIs: Continuing in our weekly blog post series that highlights a few of the new additions to the Framework Design Guidelines 2 nd edition .. This content is found in the Naming New Versions of Existing APIs of Chapter 3: Naming Guidelines. Incrementally evolving Read More...
Posted 08 December 08 06:57 by BradA | 5 Comments
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Framework Design Guidelines: Avoiding Abstractions: Continuing in our weekly blog post series that highlights a few of the new additions to the Framework Design Guidelines 2 nd edition .. This content is found in the Principle of Self-Documenting Object Models section of Chapter 2: Framework Design Fundamentals. Read More...
Posted 01 December 08 06:54 by BradA | 15 Comments
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dnrTV Does MEF!: Glenn Block recently did a great screen cast on the Managed Extensibility Framework. Show #130 | 11/26/2008 Glenn Block on MEF, the Managed Extensibility Framework Glenn Block shows you how to use MEF to allow a plugin architecture in your .NET Read More...
Posted 30 November 08 08:56 by BradA | 2 Comments
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MEF Preview 3 Shipped!: I am pretty excited to see MEF preview 3 ship on codeplex today! Please check out Glenn's post for all the details... This is a release where we really focused on getting in your feedback... We are 100% MSPL, we are shipping our own Read More...
Posted 25 November 08 08:55 by BradA | 2 Comments
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Framework Design Guidelines: Supporting Experimentation: Continuing in our weekly blog post series that highlights a few of the new additions to the Framework Design Guidelines 2 nd edition .. This content is found in the Framework Design Principles section of Chapter 2: Framework Design Fundamentals. I love Read More...
Posted 24 November 08 06:38 by BradA | 4 Comments
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Framework Design Guidelines: Scenario Driven Framework Design: Ccontinuing in our weekly blog post series that highlights a few of the new additions to the Framework Design Guidelines 2 nd edition .. This annotation is found in Chapter 2: Framework Design Fundamentals. Joe and Chris nail the core things. JOE DUFFY Read More...
Posted 17 November 08 06:35 by BradA | 4 Comments
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What Does that .NET Namespace Mean: System.* and Microsoft.*: I need your feedback... I am chatting with some co-workers about the perception of in the .NET Community of what the System.* and Microsoft.* namespaces mean. So I had the crazy idea of just asking you! For this exercise, Read More...
Posted 16 November 08 07:04 by BradA | 82 Comments
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Need Windows Mobile Phone Recommendation: I am ready to replace my several year old Verizon XV6700… The 2 nd replacement battery is not keeping me through the day any more, it is way too heavy and my colleagues pick on my for using such old technology ;-) I have a pretty good deal with Read More...
Posted 12 November 08 09:02 by BradA | 45 Comments
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Framework Design Guidelines: Testable Frameworks: I thought I do a weekly blog post series that highlights a few of the new additions to the Framework Design Guidelines 2 nd edition .. The first is around writing testable frameworks it is found in Chapter 1: Introduction. Phil brings his real world experience Read More...
Posted 10 November 08 10:33 by BradA | 2 Comments
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Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Demo: The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a new feature of .NET 4 (and will work on 3.5 as well) that makes it significantly easier to extend applications and generally support application composition patterns. What does that really mean? Read More...
Posted 07 November 08 07:10 by BradA | 7 Comments
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Book Plug: The C# Programming Language (3rd Edition): At PDC2008, we shipped the third edition of the C# Language specification ... If you are a language-lawyer type or just like to know exactly how the latest version of the language works, this book is for you! In this addition, we tried something Read More...
Posted 07 November 08 11:55 by BradA | 6 Comments
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