9 Aug
2010

Software, “It’s not what we do”.

I get to visit with a lot of developers in a lot of different organizations. Sometimes those developers work for software companies, sometimes they don’t. More often they do not. Most IT professionals don’t work for software companies, after all, and custom software development in these environments is considered an “enabling technology” rather than a […]

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5 Aug
2010

Extended WPF Toolkit – New MessageBox Control

I have added a new control to the Extended WPF Toolkit  project on CodePlex called the MessageBox.  It is currently in beta and is only available in the source code download.  The MessageBox control mimics the System.Windows.MessageBox closely and you use similar syntax to create it. MessageBox Displays a message box that has a message […]

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3 Aug
2010

I Started a CodePlex Project: The Extended WPF Toolkit

WPF developers, have you ever needed a control that it is in the Silverlight Toolkit but not the WPF Toolkit?  What is that all about?  Well my solution to that problem is on CodePlex and it is called the Extended WPF Toolkit.  The Extended WPF Toolkit is a collection of WPF controls, components and utilities […]

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1 Aug
2010

Pluralcast 21 – Extending Visual Studio 2010 with Kate Gregory

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Listen Now! Kate Gregory has probably forgotten more coding tricks than I have ever learned. That means that she likes her Visual Studio with meat and potatoes. With the new extensibility?model in Visual Studio 2010,? Visual Studio can now be the primary source or protein in your IDE diet. In this episode Kate tells us […]

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30 Jul
2010

CreateDelegate<T> – An Exercise in Using Expressions

In a previous blog post I showed a basic example of how to use the Delegate.CreateDelegate() method as an alternative to the slow MethodInfo.Invoke() for dynamically invoking a method of a class at runtime. The only downside of using CreateDelegate is that its not strongly typed. This is usually not a problem when the signature […]

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