Jaime Rodriguez
On Windows 8, Windows Phone and HTML5
Tangerine, a WPF Exemplar...
Infagistics has created this WPF application called Tangerine and they have documented a bit of the...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 09/20/2007
Expression Blend2 Sept Preview released.. a must 'upgrade' for WPF and silverlighters .
Blend2 Sept Preview was released last friday to the public... An overview of the new features is in...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 09/18/2007
silverlight stretching to 100% in Firefox...
An FAQ: Setting the Silverlight plugin to width = 100% and height = 100% and then accessing...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 09/05/2007
Halo3 HD videos on silverlight
The new high definition live action videos for Halo3 are available in Silverlight at...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 08/29/2007
firefox 'Warning: Unresponsive Script' and Silverlight 1.0 ..
A few customers developing in 1.0 have seldomly seen the 'unresponsive script' warning in firefox......
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 08/28/2007
VS Tip of the day blog...
Am I the last one to find this really useful blog with lotsa good VS tips? Try your VS knowledge on...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 08/26/2007
Cider part3: Design-time extensibility.
We have walked through the cider features, we have discussed its integration with Blend and the...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 08/20/2007
Cider Part2: building a WPF app using Cider and Expression Blend..
In my earlier post I walked through my favorite Cider beta2 features. You might have noticed that I...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 08/20/2007
A screencast on what's new on WPF Designer "Cider" beta2...
A belated follow-up to an earlier post about Cider... Will try for a brief series that discusses:...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 08/20/2007
Improving and measuring silverlight performance...
Seema shares some of her lessons learned towards minimizing CPU usage in silverlight .....
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 08/10/2007
MLB on silverlight..
As usual I am late -- or did not intent to do it at all -- breaking news on silverlight and in this...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 08/09/2007
VS2008 Cider beta2 .. feedback wanted ..
Today I spent two hours in Cider beta2.. I was not sure what to expect, I must admit in the past I...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 07/27/2007
VS2008 (Orcas) beta2 ...
I often skip the "xyz" has shipped announcements.. but VS2008 "orcas" beta2 is packed with so much...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 07/27/2007
Drag & Drop in WPF.. part 3 .. the results and code...
Here is where we take every thing learned in Part1 (the drag) and Part2 (the drop) and package it...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 07/12/2007
Drag & drop in WPF part2 ...
Last part, we focused on the drag... In this part we will focus on drop (which is relatively...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 07/12/2007
Drag & Drop in WPF ... Explained end to end ..
.table { BACKGROUND-COLOR: #dbdbdb } How to do Drag& Drop in WPF is a question I hear often... I...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 07/12/2007
forcing a WPF binding to 'refresh' ...
From an internal DL ... I thought this would be handy --- must admit is nicer than some hacks I have...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 07/05/2007
Getting Expression Blend May Preview to launch Visual Studio when you click on a JS file..
When working on Silverlight 1.0 projects.. it kind of annoyed me that Blend launches notepad to edit...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 07/02/2007
Expression Design tips...
Expression Design tips I learned while at the Express Yourself contest in San Fran last week.. : The...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 06/26/2007
tool to create motion path animations for silverlight...
One animation that is in WPF and not silverlight is AnimationUsingPath .. [you create a path, and...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 06/20/2007
list of silverlight bloggers & and silverlight FAQ ...
quite a few people have asked "what are the silverlight blogs we should be reading" or "where is the...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 06/20/2007
Getting started with silverlight
Disclaimer (6/18): I have been sending people to www.silverlight.net (the ultimate place for all...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 06/19/2007
Interesting posts for week of 6/4 to 6/10 ...
I traveled most of the week so did not blog ... from the blogs, I read here are some of my 'faves'...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 06/11/2007
Acropolis CTP1 released to web...
Acropolis is a set of components and tools (add-ins to Visual Studio) to help you build smart client...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 06/04/2007
Chuckj on XAML conditional compilation ... a must read ...
Rob Relyea points to Chuck Jazdzewski' s post on conditional compilation .. IMO, this is one of the...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 05/21/2007
Early version of snoop for silverlight 1.0 ...
First 3 hours of troubleshooting the problem my last post, I was thinking "I need snoop" ... Next 5...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 05/17/2007
IsHitTestVisible and Opacity in Silverlight 1.0
I spent last friday "fighting" this breaking change from earlier CTPs , so sharing hoping to save...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 05/17/2007
Astoria: data services for the web..
This was one of several projects that did not surface much at MIX due to the silverlight hype.. I...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 05/09/2007
sandboxing silverlight 1.0.. (aka the internal script model)
Say you are a hoster ( fake example: myspace) of some website where users create pages.. You will...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 05/07/2007
silverlight screencast videos
Hi, Thanks for visiting. I assume you are looking for the videos from the screen casts, they are...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 04/25/2007
wpfevideos
Hi, Thanks for visiting. I assume you are looking for the videos from the screen casts, they are...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 04/25/2007
Two great talks .. One on data, one on 3D ..
While I am on talks (last post)... I saw two really good ones last week: David, Kurt and Jordan...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 04/02/2007
Developer Designer collaboration with WPF ...
I am doing a developer designer workflow talk tomorrow for an MSDN webcast.. Invite is here.. As of...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 04/02/2007
Performance on the WPF AllScripts Healthcare demo ...
Over the last month, several people have asked me why CPU is so high on the healthcare demo ... I...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 03/14/2007
Desktop matters conference report ..
Tim Sneath ( my work boss) emailed me asking how it went , and since I am typing if for my team I...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 03/14/2007
Getting system DPI in WPF app..
it only took less than an hour for some one to ask why my last post has this code: Matrix m...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 03/08/2007
Using VisualTreeHelper.GetDrawing to get around the Z-Order limitation when hosting Windows Forms controls
Several times I have had needed to put WPF content in front of Windows Forms control hosted in a WPF...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 03/08/2007
belated announcements... Chat with WPF team ... 2/21 11:00 PST
I am sure you read the invite from Tim There is a Chat with the WPF team tomorrow at 11 AM PST.. I...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 02/21/2007
WPF's Declarative Model = XAML + Services.. not just mark-up.
I spend a lot of time talking to devs, architects and [a few] designers about Windows Presentation...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 02/19/2007
The kids' games?.. the games before they had computers...
[Note, there is no technical value, to this read, so if you wanted your tech juice,skip to a post...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 02/16/2007
Adam Nathan's "Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed" book
I was at the local bookstore this weekend ... and stumbled across Adam's WPF unleashed book ... this...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 01/29/2007
WPF data grid..
Xceed announced today their FREE datagrid for WPF ... Check it out here...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 01/26/2007
Choosing a smart client technology..
Help us out .. Kevin Moore (wpf) , Scott Morrison (crossbow ) and I were guessing some of the...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 01/26/2007
using wpf/e to create interactive web charts ...
First CTP of Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere (WPF/E) was released last december, Joe...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 01/24/2007
tweaking your wpf code to run in Expression Blend...
beta 1 of Expression Blend ( aka Expression Interactive Designer, codename Sparkle) went out a month...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 01/21/2007
more gifts.. sidebar gadgets for Office
this one went live last week, the office team released their Tasks and Calendar sidebar gadget ......
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 12/13/2006
Christmas gifts came early this year
The WPF 3D team started a blog a few days ago ... and today they released some code to be host...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 12/13/2006
transparent windows in WPF.. please make them small :)
A feature that the WPF team added late to WPF was the ability to allow transparent windows (...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 12/08/2006
installing WPF/E SDK in my Vista machine...
Mike Harsh has a link to known issues with WPF/E sdk .. here This does not touch on Vista though ......
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 12/07/2006
Running a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF/Indigo) service in Windows Vista..
Tried installing an existing WCF .svc to my Vista RTM machine... did the usual stuff (create...
Author: jaime_rodriguez Date: 12/05/2006