This is part 2 of an pretty interesting series about Newton Physics extensions and Blender; I'm a big Blender fan (have you seen Big Buck Bunny? If not, go get it) so I'm excited to see it being used this way. The series is still in development but already you can get a good idea of the possibilities!

Lester has posted about his new update to XamlPadX, which is a nifty WYSIWYG (this acronym might be slightly anachronistic these days) editor in which you can test your XAML-snippets.
It works like a charm -it doesn't have Intellisense but then again, it's not meant as IDE, it's meant for Copy-Paste- and shows you the VisualTree of your XAML as well as all properties on your elements. It verifies your code and lets you know if you mistyed an element-name! All in all pretty handy.

Dr. WPF -congrats on the 1 year anniversary btw- posted an awesome article on CodeProject, called Introduction to D3DImage. It's a neat easy-going intro to one of SP1's improvements to the framework.

I'm a big fan of Visual Studio code snippets and keyboard shortcuts. So I really like typing prop followed by two tabs to quickly generate a property.

Today I found out a new one, specifically for WPF: propdp followed by double-tab gives you a Dependency Property and generates the following code:

public int MyProperty
{
get { return (int)GetValue(MyPropertyProperty); }
set { SetValue(MyPropertyProperty, value); }
}

// ... comment ...
public static readonly DependencyProperty MyPropertyProperty =
DependencyProperty.Register("MyProperty", typeof(int), typeof(ownerclass), new UIPropertyMetadata(0));


You can fill in some fields, such as the type and the ownerclass, but besides that you don't have to type anything.

For the next couple of weeks I'll be crossing Java and Bali, so don't expect any posts from me :P

Edit: I'm back again; it was wonderful, but this is not the place to discuss it. Maybe I should start a Java-blog as well :D