Posted in Canada, Microsoft, Personal, Silverlight, Tech, Tech Events, WPF on Feb 25th, 2008 1 Comment »
I’m presenting at the Toronto Code Camp on Saturday about What’s new in Visual Studio 2008 for WPF 3.5 and Silverlight developers. My presentation will be an updated version of the presentation I gave at ObjectSharp’s Visual Studio 2008 At the Movies event, which hopefully you’ll find interesting and useful if you’re doing client-side [...]
Posted in Microsoft, Tech, WPF, XNA on Feb 13th, 2008 No Comments »
I can’t resist linking to a superb article in the WPF Performance blog on finding memory leaks in WPF-based applications.
Particularly interesting is the section pertaining to Event Handler-based leaks. Here’s the brief summary, from the article:
In general, if you do this:
Foo.SomeEvent += new EventHandler(Bar.SomeMethod)
Then when you done using Bar, but you are [...]
Posted in Microsoft, Silverlight, Tech, Tech Events, WPF on Feb 11th, 2008 No Comments »
1. Visual Studio 2008. Express Edition is free. But the story doesn’t end here…
2. Expression Blend 2. Current build is the December Preview. I’m guessing the next drop will happen around Mix08 in March. Does a much better job of visually editing XAML (for instance, elements in Resource Dictionaries) than [...]
Posted in Canada, Microsoft, Silverlight, Tech, Tech Events, WPF on Feb 7th, 2008 4 Comments »
It was great to be part of ObjectSharp’s VS2008 at the Movies event this morning. Thanks to all of you who braved a quintessentially Canadian snowstorm to be there!
My favourite part of the WPF/Silverlight presentation was being able to show some of the work ObjectSharp has been doing with WPF and .NET 3.5 at Thermo [...]
Posted in Canada, Microsoft, Tech, Tech Events, WPF on Feb 7th, 2008 2 Comments »
Ever wonder how the experts build clever things into their WPF applications? Here’s one way to find out which uses a few of my favourite tools for building WPF and Silverlight apps.
Required Ingredients:
1. Snoop, an excellent utility that lets you visualize and probe a running WPF application.
2. Lutz’s tried and true Reflector utility, which [...]
