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Extensibility Series – WPF & Silverlight Design-Time Code Sharing – Part I
Friday, November 20, 2009 11:12 PM
This is the first in series of posts called the “Extensibility Series.”  This series will cover writing design-times for WPF & Silverlight custom controls for the WPF & Silverlight Designer for Visual Studio 2010 that target .NET 4.0 and... Read More...
Silverlight 3 & 4 Library Sharing with .NET 4.0 Library or WPF
Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:15 AM
As if you need “another” reason to start running Visual Studio 2010 Beta2, here is another for all the cross platform .NET Line of Business application developers. Silverlight 3 & 4 Library assemblies can be referenced in .NET 4.0 applications and... Read More...
Updated Code: Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Sample Data Project Templates
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 7:36 PM
I have updated the project templates Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Sample Data Project Templates.  The Silverlight template needed an update to the .proj file. Please download the templates from the above post. Sorry for the problem. Close Have a great... Read More...
Updated Code: XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Cider Designer
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:27 PM
I was working on a post for T4 Preprocessed Text Templates (I’ll post it tonight) and found a bug in the XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Cider Designer grid parsing code.  Chances are you won’t hit it, but I did so I’ve corrected the... Read More...
d:DesignInstance, d:DesignData in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 1:02 AM
The WPF and Silverlight Designer for Visual Studio 2010 shares several new design time (d:) properties and design time MarkupExtensions with Expression Blend 3 that provide necessary information for the WPF and Silverlight Designer to deliver a great... Read More...
New Options for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 WPF and Silverlight Projects
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:26 PM
To get to this Options dialog, use the Tools menu, selected Options, select Text Editors, select XAML, select Miscellaneous. MarkupExtension IntelliSense and Editing The most requested feature for the WPF & Silverlight XAML Editor was MarkupExtension... Read More...
Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Sample Data Project Templates
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:26 PM
Silverlight 3 application demonstrating Sample Data. Displaying Sample Data in the WPF and Silverlight Designer for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 is now very easy with the DesignData markup extension.  The below video is a complete tutorial for using... Read More...
XAML Power Toys v5 Published
Sunday, September 20, 2009 10:37 PM
It’s here and posted at: http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/xaml-power-toys/ Please read the Known Issue, New Installation and Upgrading sections in the above page. Five New 1280 x 1024 videos too. New Features and Changes in v5.0 x32 and x64 support... Read More...
XAML Power Toys v5 Will Be Available Sunday at 7:00pm PST
Thursday, September 17, 2009 4:41 PM
My blog has been very quiet the last month because I’ve been working very long hours in preparation for the next release of Visual Studio 2010.  On the weekends I was relaxing and not doing much with my computer. I’ve been all cranked up at home... Read More...
Updated – INotifyPropertyChanged – How to remove the Property Name String Code Smell
Sunday, August 02, 2009 4:35 PM
Note: I updated this blog entry because the first method ran into problem with StackFrames in release builds without .pbd files.  I did find a JIT Compiler workaround but would never suggest such a hack. I have so much to share with you since my... Read More...
INotifyPropertyChanged – How to remove the Property Name String Code Smell
Saturday, August 01, 2009 10:37 PM
I have so much to share with you since my last blog entry.  Went on a cruise to Alaska to write BBQ Shack and Ocean v2 Code Name: Glacier.  Only got off the ship once because I was having way too much fun programming!  OK, I need an intervention... Read More...
Ocean for Silverlight – Enables Sharing Business Objects With WPF
Monday, June 01, 2009 11:48 AM
Ever since Silverlight version 1 was announced, I’ve been working with my WPF and .NET back-end libraries to ensure that I could reuse business entity objects between the tiers regardless of the UI technology.  I wrote these demos in NYC while... Read More...
XAML Power Toys 4.0 Released – Code Name MVVM
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 1:34 PM
Over the last few months I’ve received many emails requesting features and I’ve got a few of my own that I’ve added to XAML Power Toys! New Features In v4.0 Added Two New Videos that cover these new features.  Please watch them... Read More...
Super Tip For XAML Power Toys
Sunday, October 19, 2008 8:32 PM
I received an email today from Ruurd Boeke telling me about a very cool Visual Studio Macro he wrote to quickly and efficiently select a control and all it’s children in the XAML editor. This is a great tip for XAML Power Toys users.  In the... Read More...
Karl Why Did You Write XAML Power Toys and What is Ocean?
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 4:46 AM
In the last few days I’ve been getting questions about XAML Power Toys like; why did I write it; what was the motivation behind the work, etc? I was actually beginning the UI development in my soon to be released Ocean Platform (details below) and... Read More...
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