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      • New version of the Blender XAML-exporter
        02/27/08
        Since the end of January, there's a new release of the XAML Exporter for Blender 3D. Robert Hogue has written some patches for it. The new version 0.44 has the following changes:


        Time to play with it again and see if my old Blender models export properly...

      • Beatriz Costa on WPF Databinding
        02/26/08
        Beatriz Costa has some excellent blogposts on WPF Databinding and all its complexities. Her latest post for instance called "How can I drag and drop items between data bound ItemsControls?" is an extensive, easy to follow tutorial on quite an advanced topic. Defintely worth checking out!
      • Free Microsoft .NET 3.0 E-learning Courses
        02/25/08
        I came across this collection of 3 free MS E-learning Courses about .NET 3.0. They're somewhat older, but still nice enough, especially if you want to look beyond WPF and dabble with Communciations and Workflow Foundations.

        This collection of 3 2-hour premium clinics teaches about th

      • WPF and F#
        02/22/08
        How anyone is ever going to be able to keep up with all the developments out there, I wouldn't know. Everyday I find stuff on the internet that I hadn't heard of before. And yet, there are people busy doing stuff with those things and writing blogs and making podcasts about is as well... T

      • WPF Video Tutorials
        02/21/08
        Here's a short list of sites hosting WPF video-tutorials. I'm going to add more in the coming days and will also provide more information about each of them. I'll probably add that info to a static page soon...

        http://www.contentpresenter.com
        "ContentPresenter.com

      • Databinding Tutorial - pre-release
        02/19/08
        Currently I'm busy working on an extensive DataBinding tutorial for WPF, which I plan on using in the WPF courses I have to teach. I'm providing you with a pre-release version of this tutorial and would really like to hear what you think of it. Feel free to comment on my grammar, errors, b

      • LearnWPF.Com
        02/07/08
        Today I stumbled across a nice little site with some nice 'Getting Started'-stuff, http://learnwpf.com. The catchphrase 'Goodbye battleship-grey' is actively begin promoted through the site's colourscheme ;) but nevertheless it features a good list of WPF-books available and

      • WPF Graphic Tiers
        02/05/08
        WPF automatically scales down it graphical capabilities, such as transparancy and anti-aliasing, based on the quality of the underlying hardware. It uses the so-called 3-tier architecture; it categorizes the video hardware in 3 distinct tiers, based on several criteria, such as vide ram, supported s

      • Free Silverlight and Expression Training DVD
        02/04/08
        A colleague of mine brought this to my attention: A free Silverlight en Expression Training DVD How cool is that? Now I don't know how things work for people outside The Netherlands, but if you're a Dutchie, get to the page and order it pronto! They say it'll be delivered in two to th

      • Visual Studio 2008 Rhythm Training Virtual PC (Windows Server 2003)
        02/03/08
        If you feel like giving the whole Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 thing a try, but don't want to re-configure your system or install a bunch of programs? You can simply download this Visual Studio 2008 Rhythm Training Virtual PC (Windows Server 2003) from Microsoft. First make sure you downloa

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