Monday, March 12, 2007 - Posts

• Tour visual por Orcas March 2007 CTP

  En este post voy a mostrarles algunas de las novedades sobresalientes de la nueva CTP de Orcas, no son todas las que incluye esta CTP, pero son a mi parecer de las que más van a dar que hablar. La primera de las características interesantes de la nueva CTP es la posibilidad de elegir con que versión del .Net Framework queremos trabajar, sea esta la 2.0, la actual 3.0 o la futura 3.5. El diseñador HTML es uno de los componentes que mas mejoras ha recibido, muchas de las cuales han sido tomadas de Expression Web. En esta vista del diseñador podrán apreciar que ahora es posible manipular los estilos CSS, también se ha agregado la nueva vista Split a las tradicionales Design y Source. El soporte mejorado para Javascript ahora incluye Intellisense y debugging. También tenemos Intellisense cuando editamos CSS y XHTML, como extra contamos con indicaciones y consejos cuando nos desviamos de las especificaciones del esquema que hemos seleccionado para trabajar. En esta CTP podemos ver que Linq está Read More... Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 9:47 PM from .Net Adventure Center | 0 Comments Filed under: Beta Test

• MVP Summit 2007

  Well I'm out on the left coast, Seattle to be specific, for yet another MVP Summit. These summits are always a great time. They tend to bring out more of the alpha geeks than a PDC does simply because of the nature of the MVP crowd. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure this whole thing's under NDA though, so I'm not sure how much I'll be able to share via the blog. Registration starts at 1:00PM today, so I'm kinda just waking up from a late flight and catching up with some work before I head over there. In case anyone wants to get in touch I'm staying at the Renaissance Hotel and you can always contact me through my weblog if you wanted to get in touch. Read More... Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 12:58 PM from hacked.brain | 0 Comments

• Let There Be Shadows

  I want to have an example of rendering shadows in my WPF 3D book, and I've been exploring some techniques. This one, however, I'm going to have to classify as a failure. You can try it out here: ShadowsFeasibilityStudy1.xbap I don't want to make the source code available because it's rather sloppy and way too specific to this particular program, but I can describe how it works: The "chopper" is just two 8-vertex boxes stuck together and moved around with three animations: rotating around its axis, revolving around the Y axis, and moving up and down. The "ground" is a plane surface composed of 200 by 200 rectangles, or 80,000 triangles. Interestingly, even without the shadow logic, increasing the number of triangles in the ground made the animation of the chopper increasingly choppy. The illumination is a combination of AmbientLight with a color of 40-40-40 and DirectionalLight with a color of C0-C0-C0 and a direction of (2, -3, -1) . I render the shadow by manipulating the Normals collection Read More... Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 11:26 AM from Charles Petzold | 0 Comments Filed under: 3D Book

• Pex

  Dr Peli De Halleux as many of you may know was the man who created MbUnit , when Peli joined the CLR team 2 years ago MbUnit was opensourced and here we are approaching a second milestone. Peli has a brain the size of jupiter and such a passion for testing that some day the path was going to take him back to testing tools. Last year Peli joined the FSE group at Microsoft Research, working with the researchers of MUTT (and who also wrote a paper on parameterized testing ) on a project called Pex (Program EXploration). Pex is different to the kind of parmeterized testing you will find in MbUnit, JUnit or TestNG. While you still set the input parameters, Pex then generates sets of test data across the inputs rather than using manually set ranges. Pex then monitors the test, checks code coverage, spots issues and suggests fixes. Pex is only internal at the moment but hopefully MSR will release Pex to the public soon. Read More... Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 6:38 AM from Andrew Stopford's Weblog | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, unit testing

• Firepoll #2, why can't you unit test webforms?

  The first firepoll has shown up some interesting things, as such I'd like to ask what prevents you from unit testing webforms? Is it that you have not considered it before or is the poor seperation of concerns/leaking abstraction the problem? Indeed if you do unit test webforms how are you doing that, implementing MVP\MVP, using Castle Igloo etc? Read More... Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 6:34 AM from Andrew Stopford's Weblog | 0 Comments Filed under: unit testing, General Software Development

• [WPF /E] Contrôler une animation créée dynamiquement

  WPF /E (Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere) permet aux développeurs de créer dynamiquement des objets directement à partir d'une chaîne de caractères représentant un bout de code XAML (eXtensible Application Markup Language). Cela est po... Read More... Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 5:41 AM from Thomas Lebrun | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, WPF