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    • December
      • WPF Web Deployment: XBAP versus Silverlight part 1
        12/21/07
        The XBAP-deployment model in WPF offers you a way to implement rich browser-based applications. Silverlight holds the same promise. So I was wondering: “What’s the difference? Why choose one above the other?”

        According to the WPF documentation
        “XAML browser applications (XBAPs) comb

      • New WPF features in .NET 3.5
        12/19/07
        I had never realized it, but all the time while I was busy learning WPF I was learning legacy stuff. The 3.0 version of WPF is out-dated! The .NET Framework 3.5 has been released together with Visual Studio 2008 and among the many changes it brings (such as Ling, Suite-B encryption, WCF-WF integrat

      • WPF Whitepaper: The New Iteration
        12/14/07
        Karsten Januszewski and Jaime Rodriguez wrote a nice whitepaper on how the 'collaboration between developers and designers in the WPF' differs from traditional way.

        The biggest change for designers is that their creations will actually be part of the solution and that they ca

      • How to make you ColumnSpan update automatically
        12/13/07
        Often you’d want to span a certain row or column in your grid across all other columns or rows. Say you have the following 4x4 grid and want to span the first cell over the entire first row:

        <Rectangle x:Name="TopRect" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" Fill=&q

      • WPF Soup to Nuts webcast series
        12/12/07
        Mmm... the 'Daily' part of my blogs title seems a bit unjustified. Ah well...

        I'm a big fan of the Microsoft Webcasts. They've got tons of these presentations available for download at the Events and Webcasts homepage convering every MS technology and product you can

    • November