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I have to give credit to Nikhil Kothari. He just ran a session the way that I like to see sessions run. As I read the title and abstract for the session, I was expecting not much in the way of new information. I actually attended the session mostly because it was the only one in this time slot that might be of interest. Nikhil started out with ...

I ran into a problem yesterday that brought back memories. And not the good kind of memories either. I'm doing some work using TypeConverters. In particular, I'm creating a Windows Forms control that functions in a manner similar to a PropertyGrid, but with a user interface that looks more like a typical Windows form. You know, with labels, and ...

Business has been booming of late at ObjectSharp. Don't know whether it's the weather or the business cycle, but our recent company barbeque had more new faces that I've seen in many years. And we haven't lost any of the old faces either. And yet it doesn't seem to end. At the moment, we're looking to add some consultants to our team. ...

It's quite possible this is old news to people, but it took me more than a couple of minutes to find the solution. I was using the FromFile method on the Image class to create a new Image object. When I was done with the Image, I needed to move the file. But it turns out that the file was still 'being used by another process'. The solution is ...

The more I see about Silverlight, both 1.0 and 1.1, the more I realize that WPF has found a client to service. From the moment I heard about XAML and WPF, I questioned where it was going to fit in the real world. A large part of the 'coolness' of XAML revolved about transitions and transformations. But business applications don't really need that. ...

First off, I do think that Silverlight is a very cool piece of technology. Want to see just how astounding? Check out the Top Banana demo application that was part of yesterday's MIX keynote. You can also find it here. What I found most astounding is that Top Banana is a browser-based application with cross-browser support. Silverlight is also ...

If you're an MSDN subscriber, you might be wondering what parts you can get hold of without purchase the product. Expression Studio is made up of: Expression Web, Expression Blend, Expression Design and Expression Media. From a developer's perspective, it is really Expression Web and Expression Blend that are of greatest interest. You might be ...

For weeks now, there has been a buzz about a big announcement at the Mix '07 conference. Well, in his keynote, Ray Ozzie made the following announcements:  Expression Studio is shipping today - See here for the details. One of the interesting elements of Expression Studio is that it includes the standard edition of Visual Studio 2005. As I ...

I'm hoping that someone reads this post and corrects me. But I'm not holding out much hope. I don't normally use TableAdapters, but for a small application I decided that they seem like a reasonable choice. And so long as I was using them on my development platform, all was well and good. The problem arose when I delivered the application. Like ...

This coming Saturday (April 28th), I'm going to be doing my Extending the ObjectDataSource talk at the Calgary Code Camp. While this isn't the first time I've spoken in Calgary (I did an MSDN User Group Tour there a couple of years ago), it has certainly been a while. I'm looking forward to participating as well as connecting with some people I ...