I encountered one more aspect of collaboration, and I would like to elaborate on. This involves communication with the user. Here is how the story goes. A designed lays out the UI. Proposed UI is discussed with the user, who subsequently approves the design. At this point the UI is given to developer to work …
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In our application we use black as background color everywhere and white or light gray as foreground color. I was working on a ListBox that has very complicated item’s layout. Essentially there are about 8 different controls contained within each item. ListBox is simply used as a container to view the data, we really do …
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As I was working on fixing some animations that got broken due to splitting on one control into multiple controls, I came up with an idea of creating a single animation that could be apply to multiple controls. In my case, the animation was two-fold. As control came into view, it should fade into the …
Magenic is sponsoring a webcast about CSLA .NET for Silverlight on November 13. I will be doing this presentation. I am very excited about this opportunity. I think very highly of Silverlight/WPF technologies. I have also being using CSLA for almost 2 years now on nearly daily basis. As you may have noticed from other …
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I am working on a distributes WPF application. This application has rich client UI, while getting the data from a database server. One complication is that this software will be installed at a several companies across the US. All the installation have to communicate with central application server that will be hosted inside a data …
I just read this blog post on ADO.NET team blog. I have been wondering about the future on Linq to SQL since the release of Entity Framework. There is signification overlap in capabilities of both technologies, and one must wonder about the overhead Microsoft is willing to incur in maintaining both. My guess is, they …
We now have a new site for Atlanta area .NET users’ group. The group’s focus is more broad than just .NET. It actually focuses on all Microsoft development technologies. Here is new address: http://www.atldotnet.org/default.aspx. There is also an RSS feed on the new site so that you can stay current with what is going on …
I have been working with Anthony Handley on a WPF project for the last couple of weeks part time. We are actually one of the first people I know that are trying to follow Microsoft idea on designer/developer collaboration for developing WPF applications. The application itself looks great! We are working through some growing pains …
I have been working on CSLA for Silverlight project with Rocky Lhotka, Justin Chase, Nermin Dibek, and Mark Steinberg for about three months. I really enjoyed this challenging and interesting work. It has been a great opportunity for me to work with the latest technologies and great, smart and super knowledgeable people. About a month …
I encountered this error today, working on a custom Silverlight application. According to Silverlight.Net this is not a bug. However, I think it is an issue with Silverlight 2.0 RTW release. Based on other posts the following situation causes this issue. You have two images one next to another in your XAML that have the …
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