As I mentioned elsewhere, I’m working on a DXCore plugin to enable (Tablet PC) ink drawing on the Visual Studio editor surface. A problem I stumbled upon in this regard was the scrolling functionality. Generally this is really easy to implement, using a transformation with the ink renderer. So I had this method: void...

When installing add-ins for Visual Studio, a number of different paths can be used. One of them is C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\Addins - in a default installation of a US English Windows. Obviously a proper installer would use...

When installing add-ins for Visual Studio, a number of different paths can be used. One of them is C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\Addins - in a default installation of a US English Windows. Obviously a proper installer would use...

Well, if I’m wondering about that every now and then, I’m sure some of the more loyal readers of my blog must be wondering the same thing, given the sparse nature of blog updates in recent months. The answer is, since I’ve started working for Developer Express, I’ve been doing that many different things that [...]

Well, if I’m wondering about that every now and then, I’m sure some of the more loyal readers of my blog must be wondering the same thing, given the sparse nature of blog updates in recent months. The answer is, since I’ve started working for Developer Express, I’ve been doing that many different things that [...]

Carl Franklin’s show .NET Rocks! now has a TV show - and Developer Express is a sponsor of the first episode. Go watch it!

Carl Franklin’s show .NET Rocks! now has a TV show - and Developer Express is a sponsor of the first episode. Go watch it!

I’m not going to say too much about it, that would only be misinterpreted as advertising - read the public information yourself here. I think this is going to be a fantastic product to create business applications (and probably others) with. Only if you’re not (yet?) a Developer Express .NET subscriber, you’re out [...]

I’m not going to say too much about it, that would only be misinterpreted as advertising - read the public information yourself here. I think this is going to be a fantastic product to create business applications (and probably others) with. Only if you’re not (yet?) a Developer Express .NET subscriber, you’re out [...]

Cider (MSDN TV demo here) is the visual designer for the Windows Presentation Foundation (used to be Avalon), part of WinFX, and it was just released for the first time as part of the WinFX December 2005 CTP. It works just fine in VS 2005 RTM, which is how I tried it. My impressions are: It [...]

Cider (MSDN TV demo here) is the visual designer for the Windows Presentation Foundation (used to be Avalon), part of WinFX, and it was just released for the first time as part of the WinFX December 2005 CTP. It works just fine in VS 2005 RTM, which is how I tried it. My impressions are: It [...]

In case you haven’t heard, WinFS is the new relational file system for Windows. Read the blurb on the official page, I’m not going to repeat that here. Now, is that a good thing? Reading the SDK docs for the current beta 1 refresh, one might think the authors are mainly promoting the use of more [...]

In case you haven’t heard, WinFS is the new relational file system for Windows. Read the blurb on the official page, I’m not going to repeat that here. Now, is that a good thing? Reading the SDK docs for the current beta 1 refresh, one might think the authors are mainly promoting the use of more [...]

For you Germans among my readers, it might be interesting to know that the last and the current edition of the dot.net magazin have articles written by me - a workshop article about the rubberband project in the 12/05 edition and a test of Developer Express XtraPivotGrid in the 01/02/06 edition. There’s also something upcoming about [...]

For you Germans among my readers, it might be interesting to know that the last and the current edition of the dot.net magazin have articles written by me - a workshop article about the rubberband project in the 12/05 edition and a test of Developer Express XtraPivotGrid in the 01/02/06 edition. There’s also something upcoming about [...]