June 2008 Entries
The July Chicago Architecture Group meeting will be held at the Downers Grove Microsoft office. Mike Smialek of Daugherty Business Solutions will be speaking on the Evolutioin of Architecture. Please join us and meet your peers in the Chicago architecture community. You need to pre-register because of building security and it also helps us to know how much food to order. Please visit the link below. http://chicagoarchitectsgro...
Posted On Tuesday, June 17, 2008 8:22 AM | Feedback (0)
Wow! The learning curve for WPF is pretty steep. It is at least when you compare it to WinForms or ASP.NET. I guess the price you pay for flexibility is complexity. Discoverablility is definitely a problem with XAML. How do these silly tags work? Most of them don't have properties as you would expect. You have to add child tags which may or may not have properties. The children may also be extensions of the parent object. Certain tags seems like they will have an effect, such as wrapping content,...
Posted On Monday, June 16, 2008 9:51 PM | Feedback (2)
Tonight was the first meeting of the Chicago Architecture Group. David Dickinson made a wonderful presentation on real life SOA. This was accompanied by a lively discussion with the 19 people in attendance. Thanks to Carl Franklin, Stephan Rylander and Larry Clarkin for making this such a success. We have a meeting planned for July 10th at the Microsoft Downers Grove office. Stay tuned for more information
Posted On Thursday, June 05, 2008 9:59 PM | Feedback (0)