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More WPF 4 Web Seminars

bill — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:15:25 +0000

Greetings from rainy Southern California! Just posted three new Web seminars on Windows Presentation Foundation. These continue the WPF 4 series I’ve been working on, and two of them have accompanying source code:

Enjoy!

UPDATE: Just posted the final “WPF 4″ video in the series, “XAML Browser Applications”. Source code here.

WPF 4 Web Seminars

bill — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:36:26 +0000

Just posted the first four Web seminars in a new series about Windows Presentation Foundation 4! Each session is short (10-20 minutes) and focuses a feature or two of WPF 4. Here are the links to the individual sessions, each with source code you can download if you’d like:

Cheers!

Visual Studio 2010 “Add Reference” dialog

bill — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:38:56 +0000

Scott Guthrie has been publishing a great series of blog posts on the new features in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0. Today’s post is about the “Add Reference” dialog in VS2010; to me, this is a “minor tweak” with a “major impact.”

In previous versions of Visual Studio the “Add Reference” dialog was always very slow to appear the first time you accessed it each session. Turns out this was because the dialog defaults to the “.NET” tab and results in a synchronous scan of the global assembly cache (blocking the UI thread). Simply by changing the scan to an asynchronous operation and having the dialog default to the “Projects” tab, the dialog will load much faster. More details in Scott’s post.

Anyway, this is the type of “feature” that is likely to get buried amongst more “exciting”, new features but it shows the type of thinking going into Visual Studio that has me exciting about this upcoming release. Sure, waiting for the “Add Reference” dialog to load may only take a few seconds but multiply that by the number of .NET developers out there and this one little tweak will save countless hours every day.

Minor tweak == Major impact