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Mimicking the AppHarbor Deployment Experience
On Thursday night at NETDUG (the Boise .NET Developer User Group), I demonstrated how to get started with AppHarbor. I also showed how to mimic the AppHarbor deployment experience. And thanks to the...
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Extended WPF Toolkit Release 1.4.0
It’s that time again. Time for another release of the Extended WPF Toolkit. I know it’s only been three short months since the last release, but this release is packed with 11 new controls as well as...
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Build an Earthquake Application with Bing Maps WPF Control (Beta)
Recently you may have noticed that the Bing Maps team released a WPF Map control which is currently in Beta. In light of the recent earth quake on the east coast of the United States, I thought an...
View ArticleMapping an Address with the Bing Maps WPF Control (Beta)
In my last post I showed you how to get started using the Bing Maps WPF control by creating an earthquake application. Now I want to introduce you to the Bing Maps SOAP Services. The Bing Maps SOAP...
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Prism-fy the Bing Maps WPF Control (Beta)
If you know me or know of me you are aware that I am a big Prism advocate/evangelist. You may have also noticed that I have been playing around with the new Bing Maps WPF control. So it shouldn’t...
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Mapping a Route with Directions using the Bing Maps WPF Control (Beta)
So far we have built an earthquake application, mapped an address using geocoding, and even Prism-fied the Bing Maps WPF control. Now let’s see how to map a route with turn-by-turn directions. By now...
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Extended WPF Toolkit–using the BusyIndicator
As you may know, I am the author of a WPF control suite call the Extended WPF Toolkit. I also spend tons of time on various forums helping people solve problems with their WPF applications. Lately...
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Extended WPF Toolkit–the updated PropertyGrid
The PropertyGrid control in the Extended WPF Toolkit was released in version 1.4.0 as beta. Since then I have had another release of version 1.5.0 in which the PropertyGrid was still in beta. Well it...
View ArticleFree Pluralsight Prism Training
I am excited to announce that Pluralsight and Microsoft’s Patterns & Practices team have joined forces to provide you with free access to over 4 hours of online Prism training. That’s right, you...
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Visual Studio Light Edition
I noticed this blog post from Scott Hanselman the other day about Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop. This post included a screenshot from the installation program. Something that really...
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C# 4.0 Optional Parameters – Exploration.
{… Removed big long story about how I ended up writing this post which provides no value to the blog…} Summary of big long story to at least give a little context as to why (yet another post on...
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Looking Ahead to 2010
No, this isn’t another prognostication post foretelling the woes of the world for the next year. This is a note to everyone who hasn’t yet played with the Visual Studio ALM tools and Team Foundation...
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Silverlight 4 – Accessing System Devices with Com Interop, such as a Scanner.
Yesterday I gave a presentation on some new features in Silverlight 4. During this presentation I mentioned the newly available ability to interoperate with Office applications such as Outlook and...
View ArticleIntroducing Nancy, a lightweight web framework inspired by Sinatra
For a couple of weeks I have been keeping myself busy with open-source stuff. One of the things has been to spike out a web framework idea and later on turn it into a real project. The project is...
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Two months ago, on the day, I first announced Nancy here on Elegant Code as my new open-source project. I could never have anticipated the chain of events that would take place during the following two...
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