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Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)

One of the many announcements made at the PDC was that Visual Studio 10 will be built on top of WPF. In addition, VS will be using MEF as an extensibility mechanism. I just wanted to take a few minutes to explain what MEF is all about. The Managed Extensibility Read More...
Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 11:37 PM by Patrick Danino | 1 Comments
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Silverlight 2.0 Released

Silverlight 2.0 has been released, and you can install it here . The link will work for both PC and Mac versions. If you had any doubts about Silverlight, I highly recommend you check out the Hard Rock Memorabilia site. The user experience and performance Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 15, 2008 9:37 PM by Patrick Danino | 0 Comments
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Service Pack 1 released

In case you haven't heard, the .Net FX 3.5 Service Pack 1 and VS 2008 Service Pack 1 have been released! The VS 2008 Express Edition with SP1 is also available here . In addition to providing bug fixes, the update also includes a number of new WPF features. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 12, 2008 7:34 PM by Patrick Danino | 1 Comments
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WPF Debugging in VS

If you ever debug WPF elements or use the QuickWatch feature in VS, I suggest you try out Mole . It’s a visualizer similar to Snoop, allowing you to view the visual/logical trees, as well as an extended set of properties, directly from VS. I was Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 06, 2008 8:33 PM by Patrick Danino | 1 Comments
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Commands

If you are trying to write an application in WPF that separates the UI from the underlying business logic (otherwise known as Model-View patterns), you may have noticed that some of the features in WPF don't always make that easy. Commands are an example Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 05, 2008 9:08 PM by Patrick Danino | 0 Comments
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User Settings in WPF

It's been a while since my last post, so I figured I'd write something I just recently had to work on: user settings. In many client applications, you quickly run into the need to store application or user settings. There are a few options on how to do Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008 11:57 PM by Patrick Danino | 1 Comments
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When To Adopt WPF

One of the questions we frequently get when meeting with customers is whether or not to adopt WPF over WinForms, Win32 or some other technology. As much as I'd love to have the answer always be "of course!", the reality is that it depends on a number Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 31, 2008 12:35 AM by Patrick Danino | 0 Comments

Jobs on the WPF Team

If you're passionate about WPF, or even if you're just curious to learn more about WPF, we have a few software engineering positions opened on the test team. Here's a link to a post by Ivo Manolov, Test Manager for WPF, with a list of positions currently Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:17 AM by Patrick Danino | 0 Comments
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Third Major release of WPF

The third major update of WPF has just been released as a Beta, as part of the .Net Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta. Here's a few links to blogs that have more detail: Scott’s Blog [VP] http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-framework-3-5-service-pack-1-beta.aspx Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:03 PM by Patrick Danino | 3 Comments
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Hello World

Welcome to my blog! In the coming weeks, I will be posting a series of posts based on my experiences doing WPF application development. For the time being, the focus will be on client applications, although that may change as I take on new projects. Over Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 9:00 PM by Patrick Danino | 0 Comments
 
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