Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - Posts

• Download Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta

  Get it here . Discuss amongst yourselves at the forum . Don't miss Guy Burstein's guided tour . Here's the official word: Visual Studio 2008 With Visual Studio 2008, developers and development organizations have the tools that enable them to be more productive, take advantage of all the latest platform advances on Windows, Office and the Web, and collaborate more effectively throughout the software lifecycle. Visual Studio 2008 offers more than 250 new features and improvements to existing features, providing developers of all skills sets – from the hobbyist to the small development shop to enterprise development organizations – the tools they need to build great applications. Microsoft is committed to helping developers be successful and provides community resources, reference material, software, add-ins, and more to guide construction of Software+Services applications, data-driven solutions, and compelling user experiences. Visual Studio 2008 SP1 beta introduces improvements and new functionality Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 6:05 PM from Windows Presentation Foundation SDK | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, XAML, Windows Presentation Foundation

• A simple Effect sample project and ClickOnce application

  The previous post in this series began to talk about writing custom Effects for WPF. We looked specifically at ColorComplementEffect, an effect with no parameters. In upcoming posts, we'll get into the details of multi-parameter effects and other specifics. But in the meantime, I thought it would be useful to post a sample VS project and a ClickOnce application from that project for folks just itching to get going. The app looks like this: It's nothing fancy, mostly XAML and, in fact, the way the code and structure and UI are constructed are not conducive to hosting all effects now and forever (a more sophisticated hoster of effects would make a lot more use of metadata and reflection to allow arbitrary effects to be applied and parameters to be tweaked). However, this definitely does the job in terms of showing how Effects are used and written. There are two projects in the solution -- one is a MyEffects library, and the other just an EffectTest application that uses Effects from MyEffects. Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:55 AM from Greg Schechter's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, Effects