Sunday, March 25, 2007 - Posts

• James Avery talks about MbUnit at Cincinnati-Dayton Code Camp 2007

  James Avery gave a session at the Cincinnati-Dayton Code Camp 2007 titled "MbUnit: Unit Testing for People who Love Unit Testing", he talked about some his fave features from 2.* including RowTest, Pairwise, Repeat and Rollback2 (the Rollback fixture for .NET 2.0). His slides for the session can be found here . I really hope this session was filmed as it would be great to hear what James said around the slides and what folks feedback\questions to James were. Read More... Posted Sunday, March 25, 2007 5:32 PM from Andrew Stopford's Weblog | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, MbUnit

• Animating WPF Resources

  In most common WPF and XAML applications, you don't often find yourself needing to animate a resource. Generally you define resources (such as brushes) so that you can share them among multiple elements in the XAML file, and it's not often necessary to animate something that's shared in this way. Moreover, if you really wanted to animate the shared brush, you could do so indirectly through one of the elements that use that brush. However, there are cases where you need to define an object as a resource not because you need to share that object, but because you can't put that object directly in the markup. The resource is then referenced by an element in markup through a data binding. If you then need to animate that resource, some special considerations come into play. For example, suppose you wanted to create a graphical animation of a Polyline that looks something like this: CurlAround.xbap The actual pattern isn't important: What's probably obvious is that a bunch of points in a PointCollection Read More... Posted Sunday, March 25, 2007 5:18 PM from Charles Petzold | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF Programming

• “City of Laughter”

  Two years ago, Deirdre and I saw a wonderful exhibit at the New York Public Library, Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era . (The library's web site still maintains information about the exhibit here .) Among the artifacts on display were a number of satirical prints by artists James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson, and George Cruikshank. These prints were often gleefully wicked and blatantly misogynist, but seemed to portray the conflicting attitudes of that era with an odd and revealing perspective. Last October at the exhibit Napoleon on the Nile at the Dahesh Museum we saw a few more Gillray prints that savagely mocked Napoleon and his Egyptian aspirations. I blogged about the exhibit here and expressed thanks for the helpful summaries that "decoded" these prints for the modern audience. I wanted a better understanding of these fascinating prints and the culture that produced them, and for satisfying that desire I can't imagine a better book than Vic Gatrell's Read More... Posted Sunday, March 25, 2007 12:16 PM from Charles Petzold | 0 Comments Filed under: Books

• Travel to Seattle, WPF training!

  I am very excited! Today is travel day. I am flying to Seattle, and will attend an IdentityMine WPF training next week! 5 days of WPF together with 9 other developers and designers from the project I am working on. In this project, I'll act as a WPF coach, and the training is a great opportunity to round up the WPF knowledge I gained since I attended MIX06 last year, to learn new things, and especially to study the new workflows between designers and developers. I saw Robert Ingebretsen's presentation last year at MIX (before he left Microsoft to join IdentityMine) and I am very excited to have the occasion to meet him again and talk about WPF's future (that should take place on Friday) Also, on Wednesday we're driving up to Redmond to meet some of Microsoft's architects, that will be very exciting too I am sure! So now I've got to prepare for 14 hours in a plane! Read More... Posted Sunday, March 25, 2007 4:11 AM from Laurent Bugnion (GalaSoft) | 0 Comments