Last time I was at Microsoft, I spoke briefly (for about 2 hours) with Rick Barraza about the need to get designers into the WPF space and how des/devs (designer developers) can really push forward a technology like WPF. In fact, it was Rick who inspired me to do more work on this blog as a…
These are my links for May 6th: AutoScroller For Silverlight 2 ScrollViewer – Working on my own scrolling issues… there seem to be alot of them, but the more I dig into the control, the more I understand why. How to set the row height of a Grid in the code – Valuable if you're…
In the last piece, I walked through setting up an AWS account and putting together the policies needed to deploy your code to Amazon’s Lambda service. Now we’re going to write our code. Complete project code on github This will be a C# port of the “SpaceGeek” Alexa Skill sample (which was actually pulled down…
Let’s say you don’t really want to play nice with the theming engine in Windows Phone 7. This would be pretty understandable… when you play nice with theming you either need to 1) come up with some nice innovative solution that detects themes and sets brushes and colors dynamically or 2) use only the black,…
I’m working on a project where users are going to load a PDF, but will be returning to the same PDF again and again. I was having some problems with Microsoft’s normally amazing PDF showcase application on lower end devices (my app needs to run well on an original Surface), so I tested this solution out. So far it’s…
I’ve been really quiet lately, largely because I’ve been working on updating my Silverlight projects so that they run again (after RCW killed my compatibility). Updated Mac View Scroller for Silverlight Updated Zooming Buttons I’ve updated and uploaded all the project code for these files as well. I’m working on getting the Silverlight Color Picker…
Maybe this is a problem that I’m all alone on, but it took me some time to figure out. I started up a ScheduledAgent for Windows Phone so that I could do some updates with a PeriodicTask, but when I ran the app, I was getting: FileNotFoundException was unhandled – An unhandled exception of type…
Some time ago I wrote an overview of data visualization styles along with a visualization tutorial for the book “Beautiful Visualization“. For the tutorial, I chose a set of data from a government website, figuring that the data would be available for a substantial amount of time. Apparently the data was recently removed, which makes…
A visualization of the Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) books and which characters drive the story.
Watching the Kinect for Windows v2 Jump Start. The code that they use in the videos is for Windows 8 apps but I’m trying to build my app in WPF. The problem is that WriteableBitmap for Windows 8 is substantially different from WriteableBitmap for WPF. So here the WPF code for the first big demo… getting…