December 20, 2005 tools

New Workspace Link for RegexDesigner

Here.

The nice folks at GotDotNet have decided in their infinite wisdom to move all of the workspaces to a new hierarchy w/o forwarding the URLs and then leaving a message behind indicating that such a thing is temporary to keep users on their toes:

Operational Troubleshooting in Progress
The Gotdotnet team is aware of the current site operational issues and is working on a solution. Thanks for your patience.”

Anyway, due to popular demand, I’ve updated the GotDotNet workspaces link to the RegexDesigner and other tools. Enjoy.

December 20, 2005 .net

MSDN Mag: Top Ten UI Breakthroughs In WPF

It goes without saying that MSDN Magazine doesn’t let the authors pick the titles (who can forget Don’s The Active Template Library Makes Building Compact COM Objects a Joy? : ), but what Ian and I had in mind here was 10 things that would surprise you when learning WPF and getting them in your face right up front. Enjoy.

December 18, 2005 spout

How come nobody says “impeach?”

WARNING: This is my political side bubbling over. If you only want fun stuff about my kids or technology, this post ain’t for you.

Clinton engaged in an consensual adult act in the west wing and endured the impeachment process.

Bush sics the NSA on us w/o due process, starts a war so he can look tough for his dad and continues to dismiss global warming as a myth. Why aren’t we impeaching his ass?

December 16, 2005 spout writing

Windows Forms 2.0 Book Samples Posted

Mike did some last minute clean-up and checked in the files, so I’ve uploaded the code sample for the Windows Forms 2.0 book. Enjoy.

December 16, 2005 spout writing

Windows Forms Programming 2005 in C# Submitted!

I packaged off the final chapters, figures and PDF files for submission of the WinForms 2.0 book this morning. Michael made it easy by fixing all the last minute nits I found, producing the PDFs and bundling all of the figure files together (he separated the graphics from the Word docs using a WinForms 2.0 program, of course!).

In spite of the fact that I’ve been working on long-lead prototype coding for the last month and Mike’s been moving to the US from Australia, we managed to get the book submitted a full 15.5 hours early (they meant midnight when they gave us a 12/16 deadline, didn’t they?!?).

I’m so excited to get the book in your hands, that I’ve asked Mike to check in the files he’s got checked out so that we can post the code samples ASAP. It’ll still be a while before the book is in your hands, though. We took 22 months to write it, but it’s the 3 months it takes to print it that always sticks in my craw the most for some reason. : )

Wahoo (2)!

December 9, 2005 tools

Windows Template Library (WTL) 7.5

It looks like my old friend Nenad Stefanovic is up to his old tricks with a new version of my favorite native framework, the Windows Template Library. This will go nicely with ATL Internals, 2e, which Chris Tavares is finishing up for Brent and me.

[via Shawn Wildermuth]

December 7, 2005 .net

Updated WPF book code samples for Nov CTP

Here. I’ve uploaded the samples for Programming Windows Presentation Foundation” ported to the November 2005 CTP. The change notes doc is coming directly (so far, it’s a pretty darn short doc).
November 26, 2005 fun

Wasting the Prince of Darkness

80% of the email I get about my Microsoft interview question site (which, 2.5 years into my MS career, nobody has yet forced me to take down) isn’t very fun, e.g. asking for the answers (which I don’t give) or fairly pedestrian stories (“I got asked some regular questions but didn’t get hired.“).

This one, though, is definitely worth posting. Enjoy!


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