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Desktop WPF
WPF in action - part 1: Designer's look on WPF
I am yet to grasp the marketing behind Microsoft naming conventions - usually a beta program would jump start with a great name, the official launch would kill it in a dull title, and things would finally settle down with an abbreviation that is actually pronounceable. Naming conventions aside, the upcoming Windows Presentation Framework (WPF), formerly known as Avalon, holds promise to become the next buzzword of the industry - even if someone adds to it another sentence before the official roll-out with Windows Vista in early 2007.From a designer's point of view, the next-generation interface for Windows is all... -
People
The end of Mini-Microsoft?
It's really sad that Mini-Microsoft is going to stop blogging:http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2006/05/all-good-things.htmlHis/her blog and the user comments were, at least for me, really inspirational and have given me food for thought on numerous topics - from team reviews, to team organization and delivery of software. It was also a great way to understand what's happening behind the scenes at Microsoft. Knowing part of the problems that plague the Redmond colossus helped me understand how and why Microsoft does things in a certain way. Mini vNext, where art thou? We need... -
Productivity Debugging
Fiddler and IE7
Do you use Fiddler to inspect the HTTP traffic? You may be faced with the following problem: since we started using the beta of the IE7 browser we started experiencing problems when monitoring the requests sent to http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1 - the requests were not reported by the Fiddler tool. It took us some time to understand what was the exact reason for this until we found the workaround for this issue here: http://www.fiddlertool.com/Fiddler/help/hookup.asp --- quote --- Why don't I see IE7 or System.NET traffic sent to http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1? IE7 and the .NET Framework are hardcoded not to send requests for Localhost through any proxies,... -
Release
This summer... Reporting and Windows Forms from telerik
The June issue of MSDN is out earlier than planned and this gives me freedom to blog about some very important developments in the telerik product offering. If you are an MSDN subscriber and you do not completely disregard the product ads, you might have noticed that "telerik is growing" and our ASP.NET product line will be soon complemented by a set of Windows Forms components and a Reporting tool. If you are interested in getting more information and seeing a preview of the Telerik Reporting and Windows Forms product lines, please stop by booth 819 at TechEd USA to meet with our... -
People
Mix 06 Sessions are available
There's a lot of great content so go and check it out at http://sessions.mix06.com/... -
Web ASP.NET AJAX
Third-party controls and support for Atlas
So much to blog about and so little time... It has been almost a couple of months since my last blog post and there were quite a few things to comment - new initiatives, interesting updates, participation in events, etc. For some reason I felt guilty for having so much to say and not blogging about it and I was looking for "THE blog post" to get back into the game:)Luckily for me, and for all telerik customers, the dev team came up with some pretty exciting news - with a great sense of pride we are happy to announce the first major third-party component suite... -
Web ASP.NET AJAX
IE Memory Leak Best Practices with AJAX in Mind
Am I getting obsessed with memory leaks? Give me a non-leaking browser and I'll cut it out .Yesterday I was hunting for a hard-to-find memory leak with r.a.d.treeview. Our component cleans up its DOM element references and DOM event handlers when it is being destroyed. Control destruction and resource disposal occurs on two occasions: when the page unloads and when the control is updated by an AJAX call (r.a.d.callback, Atlas, etc -- the mechanism is framework-agnostic). Now the treeview, being a good citizen, follows the leak prevention pattern of keeping references to DOM elements to a minimum. Most of the... -
Web
Automating Complex JavaScript-rich Controls with Watir
Watir is a web testing tool that allows you to automate Internet Explorer and script interactions with your web application. It uses the COM automation interface to drive the browser. The nicest thing about the tool is that it allows you to use Ruby to create the test scripts. Ruby is an unobtrusive, easy to learn, fully object-oriented language whose power at abstraction building will allow you to bring your testing to a level you never previously imagined. Now, a lot of people love and use Watir, and we have been getting requests for help on scripting our web controls with Watir. All of our controls are pretty complex beasts and require... -
Release
Drip -- some exciting news
I should have posted this a few days ago, but I have been so busy that this Easter (Orthodox Easter, is THE Easter in Bulgaria) Saturday morning is my first blogging opportunity for the whole week. I was writing an article on Drip and contacted Matthias Miller, the tool's developer, about some of the limitation of the tool that I've described here . He confirmed my findings, and while I wasn't watching he pulled some ninja coding skills and sent me a new build that detected more leaks and had none of the original limitations. It worked like a charm, and Drip...April 21, 2006 1 min read -
Mobile
Origami: the next Big Small thing
Will Microsoft take on Apple and Palm with its all-in-one consumer/business ultra-portable device? Well, you’ve probably heard the news already - Microsoft is entering the persona-portble-cool-weired-widgets market with their own device… The device code named Origami (official name is UMPC which is spelled out like Ultra Mobile PC) is very compact all-in-one information device that is targeted as an iPod, Palm and BlackBerry competition. Origami sounds way cooler than UMPC though (I keep asking myself why the guys at MS are giving great code names like Indigo, Avalon and Origami, and the official naming is almost unpronounceable like WPF, WCF, UMPC,...April 21, 2006 2 min read
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