Posted in All Tech, Microsoft, WPF on Apr 21st, 2008 No Comments »
The WPF Performance Suite includes the following tools for profiling WPF applications at runtime:
Perforator: for analyzing rendering behavior.
Visual Profiler: for profiling the use of WPF services, such as layout and event handling, by elements in the visual tree.
Working Set Analyzer: for analyzing the working set characteristics of your application.
Event Trace: for analyzing events and generating [...]
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Posted in All Tech, Microsoft, WPF on Apr 13th, 2008 2 Comments »
Custom WPF Bitmap Effects, authored in a Managed C++ assembly, complete with sample project to help you roll your own. It works, complete with live preview, in Expression Blend. Done by a guy called Rob who has a blog called Run To The Hills. ‘Nuff said.
Check it out!
p.s. My suggestion to Rob: [...]
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I’m currently consulting independently for an incredibly cool team of developers and designers. The process has been a joy, both for me and for my clients. In part, it has shown me that Expression Blend (2.5) has matured to the point where it delivers on the promise of dramatically improving the developer-designer workflow.
I [...]
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I’m in the lineup to speak at the DevTeach conference, which is taking place in Toronto from May 12-15. My presentation is going to be WPF-centric, but I have deliberately left the abstract flexible.
What would you like to hear about WPF at DevTeach from someone who’s been consulting in WPF and Silverlight?
Building a WPF [...]
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Barry’s teaching a course this week and noticed that NLarge didn’t support multimon - or rather, it always zoomed in on the primary monitor. So NLarge got another update. Good thing I don’t sleep!
Changelist:
Added Multimonitor support - zooms in on the monitor currently containing the mouse pointer.
Added Text support - annotate zoomed-in images [...]
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1. The Cirque du Soleil keynote demo, the most engaging articulation of WPF’s “richer, smarter, more productive line-of-business app” message since Avalon Healthcare.
2. More Microsoft Research innovation sees the light of day in the product groups and for developers at large. Deep Zoom becomes available to developers through Silverlight and demoed by the Hard Rock [...]
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Just got back from the Steve Ballmer / Guy Kawasaki keynote at this year’s Mix.
Is Guy ever not on form? He did a great job asking Steve the tough questions, making it fun, and getting a few candid answers, along with some “PR” answers as well, including Steve’s cautious response to “What about [...]
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Head over to Tim Sneath’s blog for a list of all download links related to the keynote this morning.
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…one the most amazing and unexpected announcements of the whole keynote came for me in a WPF demo towards the end.
In an update to WPF that should be available some time this summer, we’re going to get SHADER SUPPORT in WPF.
Yes, that kind of shader.
It was demoed during the keynote with some custom shaders being [...]
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First let’s get to the obvious Silverlight announcements we “knew” were coming during this keynote:
- Silverlight 2.0 Beta is available!
- Expression Blend 2.5 (!) March Preview is available!
- [update] Silverlight Beta tools for Visual Studio 2008 are available
- formal announcement of Silverlight Mobile device support!
In my presentation last weekend I was asked about Silverlight [...]
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