8 Apr
2011

Extended WPF Toolkit Release 1.4.0

It?s that time again.  Time for another release of the Extended WPF Toolkit.  I know it?s only been three short months since the last release, but this release is packed with 11 new controls as well as many bug fixes and updated controls.  I have been working hard to provide the WPF community with a […]

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28 Jan
2011

Nancy, the little community-powered framework that could

Two months ago, on the day, I first announced Nancy here on Elegant Code as my new open-source project. I could never have anticipated the chain of events that would take place during the following two months. My tweet about the blog post got re-tweeted more times than I can remember and the post filled […]

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28 Nov
2010

Introducing Nancy, a lightweight web framework inspired by Sinatra

For a couple of weeks I have been keeping myself busy with open-source stuff. One of the things has been to spike out a web framework idea and later on turn it into a real project. The project is inspired, but not a clone, by the Sinatra web framework built on Ruby. The name, Nancy, […]

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20 Feb
2010

Silverlight 4 – Accessing System Devices with Com Interop, such as a Scanner.

Yesterday I gave a presentation on some new features in Silverlight 4.  During this presentation I mentioned the newly available ability to interoperate with Office applications such as Outlook and Excel though the new ComAutomationFactory that is in Silverlight 4.  Someone in the audience asked the question, ?Can I access my scanner?, and of course […]

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