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iPadding V1 – The Designer Story

With the whole iPad buzz going around last week, I decided to build last friday’s TechFriday app around the theme.

Introducing iPadding v1! It’s basically a WPF application that allows you to drag and drop shortcuts onto the screen and save it for when it’s presentation time. My desktop is constantly cluttered and as [...]

Happy Holidays Everyone!

I was listening to some Christmas music today and the holiday spirit got the best of me. I managed to make a customizable e-greeting card using Silverlight 4. Since MS has only released a developer beta and no go-live license, users will have to manually download the Silverlight 4 beta plugin. I modified [...]

Tip the Day: watch videos on extended monitor while working on primary

Have you ever tried watching a code walkthrough video, wanting to follow along with visual studio but have a hard time because the video players are too small for you to read the code? and when you do full screen, you’ll have to pause and play while you “unfullscreen” to switch to Visual [...]

Making Your Win7 JumpLists Trigger on the Same Application Instance

As promised in my previous post, I’ll be talking about how to create jumplist integrated single instance applications, much like how Outlook, Windows Media Player.

At first, i thought it would need to involve a bit of windows messaging but then I found this blog post that details how to create single instance [...]

Managing WPF Screens with Windows 7 Jumplists and the Visual State Manager

We’re having our Singapore launch of Windows 7 this November and in honor of that, I’ll be devoting my upcoming (and long overdue) TechFridays to everything Windows 7. For this post, I’ll be talking about how you can use the Visual State Manager for WPF to manage the different screen states in your [...]

TechFriday: Jumping into Jumplists

Everybody’s excited about Windows 7 and there might be a few of you guys out there wanting to take advantage of some of the new features of the OS in your applications. In this post, I’ll show you how you can quickly add Jumplist support to your existing application (Yes, even WinForms applications)

In [...]

TechFriday: Building Custom Behaviors

Okay, I missed Tech Friday, so I decided to make it Tech Weekend instead. I attended the June Mix-It-Up: Re-MIX last Thursday and was able to catch up a bit on the new technologies. I have been busy with a few other things at work and I am ashamed to say, I have [...]

Tech Friday: Your Own Custom Search Providers

Not the most techie thing to do but hey, today isn’t the greatest day to be using much of my brain as most of it is concentrating on agonizing on pain. I was browsing around the blogs I monitor and found a post by Long Zheng talking about a little experiment that showed [...]

Tech Friday: The Orientator

I was thinking of an app to build for tech Friday and I remember running in to @willyfoo the other day. He mentioned he needed an application that would read in EXIF data from photographs and rotate them based on the orientation meta tag. It was quite a good exercise cause it allowed [...]

Tech Friday!

I hereby declare that Friday mornings will now be committed to leveling up my technical knowledge. For this morning, I watched a session on http://www.visitmix.com which talked about Building Microsoft Silverlight Controls in Silverlight 3. Check out Karen Corby’s session at http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/T16F

Some really cool features of Silverlight 3 she talks about are Theming, [...]