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I’m going to write my history with Agile here. That way, in future posts, I can refer back to it, instead of typing it out in the post that contains information you may actually want to read. Note that I’m actually a pretty senior developer, and do lots of technical interviews. I’m an Agile fan because of the difference it makes in peoples lives and the improvement in quality it brings, and I’ll sacrifice my technological advance to help teams. Management History I started management pretty early...
In many ways, CAB and WPF have many similar functions. One area where there's overlap, and a little bit of pain is with WPF commands. If you're new to commands, here's a great blog post about them. The Microsoft Help for commands is here. Suppose the following: You have a search workspace that contains all of the logic for executing a search and displaying search results and a single search textbox. When a search result item is selected, you raise a cab event and then stuff happens. You want to go...
Today someone asked me, "How do you cause the double click event to fire in a tree view control using UI Automation"? Good question, and no, I don't have a good answer. Apparently, there isn't a good way to simulate this. In our case, we have a custom user control that is a popup that contains a WPF TreeView control. The user browses through the control until they find the node that they want and then they double click on the control to select the node, which is then raised as an event through the...
Technorati Tags: Vista,games,NVidia,drivers I have two machines, one is my laptop that I use for WPF development and other development work. It runs Vista and I can't say that I've ever had a problem with it, except when running games. I like a lot of new features of Vista and recommend it to people regularly. My other machine is strictly a gaming machine and today I'm removing Vista from it. Why? Not because of some arcane reason, but because the Nvidia drivers for non-8000 series video cards are...
Technorati Tags: ClickOnce,MAGE,.net 3.5,MageUI We've been struggling with ClickOnce using mage.exe and MageUI.exe to manually deploy the application. Since we're doing continuous integration, we need this to work. I've spent 4 hours with MS support trying different combinations of deployment to no avail. We've tried everything. Today, I built a sample application to see if it was our projects or MS. Using Visual Studio 2008, I created a new WPF application and left everything at it's default. The...
I read an article today that's right on. I've been in the Microsoft world for quite a while, and I'm generally happy with them. That doesn't mean I haven't used other platforms or technologies like Oracle, Eclipse, Java, BEA Tuxedo, Perl, Ruby on Rails, several different distributions of linux (I started an ISP on linux), AS/400, RPG, Visual RPG, VAX, DEC Alpha, WPF, etc. Wow, I look at that list and realize that I've seen quite a few different technologies! I've seen enough to not be a bigot. We're...
Wow, that was a frustrating ride. All I wanted to do was get the initial focus of the application set to a control that was being loaded as part of the application. At first, I tried just the "Focus" command off of the control itself. That didn't work. Turns out, there's two types of focus, Keyboard Focus and Logical Focus. Cool, so then I knew I could use the method: Keyboard.Focus(IUIElement); Except it didn't work. No matter where I put it, it didn't work. I even went so far as to put the control...
Read an intersting article about WPF today. Wish I would have seen it when I was trying to get up to speed on WPF. Looks pretty good
Wow, it's been a hectic three weeks! I've been out at a client's site for two of the three weeks and then working on their project for the rest of the time. It's a WPF product and based on that, I can say that WPF is really cool stuff. Some things that I've learned? 1. Use Popup controls when you have content that you need to display out of the stack order on top of other items. 2. The Popup control has built in animation so that you don't have to do anything with it. You can see the example in the...
This is in response to a comment about my last post. I expected something revolutionary and significantly better than what was currently on the market. Microsoft consistently does this with other applications. Sql Server is, in my opinion, FAR superior to Oracle and MySql. .net kick’s Java’s behind. Visual Studio is so far ahead of the competition that using anything else is painful. For those of you that live and die by Eclipse, VS 2005 is clearly a superior product. The XBOX 360 is also much better...
O.K.--so I got a shiny core duo 2 from dell the other day, and have vista loaded onto it. The performance thingy rates me as a 3.5 (because of the video card), and says I should be able to enjoy all of the snazzy new features of Vista.I start to tinker, and soon find that the Aero stuff is really only skin deep--as soon as you go into any of the dialog boxes for more advanced stuff (like the system dialog boxes, the "advanced properties" of the display, etc), you quickly find that this is just XP...