Web and Cloud : WPF

August 29th Links: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS Express, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7

ScottGu's Blog — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:23:36 GMT

Here is the latest in my link-listing series . Also check out my VS 2010 and .NET 4 series and ASP.NET MVC 2 series for other on-going blog series I’m working on. [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share...(read more)

The Weekly Source Code 56 - Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit - Code Contracts, Parallel Framework and COM Interop

Scott Hanselman — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:07:55 GMT

Do you like a big pile of source code? Well, there is an imperial buttload of source in the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit . It's actually a 178 meg download, which is insane. Perhaps start your download now and get it in the...(read more)

Dealing with Images with Bad Metadata - Corrupted Color Profiles in WPF

Scott Hanselman — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:03:27 GMT

Creating a Twitter client is a really interesting exercise in application development because, amongst many reasons, it's taking input from effectively an infinite number of people and places. Never trust user input, right? Input to your application...(read more)

Claims on the Client…

Vibro.NET — Sun, 02 May 2010 12:24:00 GMT

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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Released

ScottGu's Blog — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:39:21 GMT

The final release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 is now available. Download and Install Today MSDN subscribers, as well as WebsiteSpark / BizSpark / DreamSpark members, can now download the final releases of Visual Studio 2010 and TFS 2010 through the...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 Released

Scott Hanselman — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:00:42 GMT

It's a big day at Microsoft today as Visual Studio 2010 officially releases. There's a lot going on with this release and I thought I'd do a big rollup post with lots of details and context to help you find your way to the information and...(read more)

Spring Speaking Rollup 2010: Recent Talks and Upcoming Talks at Microsoft WebCamps

Scott Hanselman — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:27:41 GMT

I've been travelling some, and I have a few more trips at Microsoft WebCamps before I take a much needed break and stop travelling until 2011. I went to Munich, Cairo, and Egypt a few weeks back and presented on ASP.NET MVC (both Beginner and Advanced...(read more)

WPF and Text Blurriness, now with complete Clarity

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:23:09 GMT

The #1 complaint I hear about WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) is that many fonts end up looking "blurry." It's a darned shame because really great applications like Evernote get criticized because of this one issue*. The blurriness...(read more)

SmallestDotNet Update - Now with .NET 4 support and an includable JavaScript API

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:44:03 GMT

A few years back I wrote a post on the size of the .NET Framework . There's historically been a lot of confusion on the site of the .NET Framework. If you search around on the web for ".NET Framework" or ".NET Framework Redistributable"...(read more)

Hanselminutes Podcast 198 - Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) with Erik Meijer

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:38:41 GMT

My one-hundred-and-ninety-eighth podcast is up . I sit down with Erik Meijer from the Cloud Programmability Team to hear about the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) . Rx is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable...(read more)

How many PCs in the world have the .NET Framework installed?

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:29:02 GMT

I did a second .NET Framework features informal poll recently , and as with all .NET related polls the question comes up: How many PCs have the .NET Framework on it? If you're a company that is considering creating a client application using .NET...(read more)

2010 Survey Results: What .NET Framework features do you use?

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:48:39 GMT

In October of 2008 I took an informal survey on Twitter . I wanted to get an idea of what features of the .NET Framework people were using. Also, here's the disclaimer. I did this on a whim, it's not scientific, so the margin of error is +/-101...(read more)

Favor - Help Us Test .NET 4 Beta 2 on Windows Update (WU)

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:42:33 GMT

The folks in the .NET Framework Setup team have a favor to ask, and it's pretty cool info so I offered to help. Here's the deal. When .NET 4 releases, the .NET 4 Client Profile will be released as a recommended update on Windows Update (WU) for...(read more)

The Weekly Source Code 46 - Jeff Key rocks Taskbar Meters that Monitor your Windows 7 CPU and Memory and Disk in the Taskbar

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:44:53 GMT

It's funny to watch things go viral, even just a little viral on the Internet. Here's what happened, but more importantly, we'll talk about the code. Let's also make it complete clear that Jeff Key rocks. See picture at left, in between...(read more)

WPF 4 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)

ScottGu's Blog — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:11:49 GMT

[In addition to blogging, I am now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. You can follow me on Twitter at: twitter.com/scottgu (@scottgu is my twitter name)] This is the eleventh in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010...(read more)