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How to get up to speed with Team Foundation Server

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:01:03 GMT

A collection of links about TFS, from evaluation to installation to customization and maintenance.

WPF: Reducing CPU consumption for animations « C# Disciples

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:46:02 GMT

Lately I've been working on a project at work and the application was performing pretty well. The CPU Usage was below 2% and I was quite happy with it. Then I decided to add a simple animation that continues executing forever. the results 15% CPU consumption . I was amazed at how much CPU was being wasted. Yet I am a stubborn guy and if I want an animation to execute forever, I will do it no matter what..

LINQ.Flickr 1.3

Tue, 06 May 2008 20:01:04 GMT

Just released another version of LINQ.Flickr. The release is out with several bug fixes, code optimization, new feature and overall mocking support. I have used Typemock for the unit test of the product. In coming posts, I will show how powerful mock can be in faking routine like upload photo. But, you can dig it right away, if you go by the release page and download a copy of the product. Truly speaking, testing was never fun for serviced API till mock engine is at my hand. ...

How DotNetKicks posts are being ripped off for other sites!

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:01:02 GMT

How posts from DotNetKicks are being copy-and-pasted wholesale into other sites. Is your hard work blogging just being stolen for other companies traffic?

Visualizing the .NET Framework

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:16:02 GMT

This was done using NDepend. The numbers are quite large - e.g. 39,509 types.

DeepZoom in C# - Not just possible, but easy

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:46:02 GMT

DeepZoom is a new technology which has been added to Silverlight 2 which gives you a new and unique way of managing images within your application. It is implemented by the <MultiScaleImage> element in XAML, which, as its name suggests, gives you the facility to control scale and zoom of your images, with Silverlight providing a huge virtual space on which these images can be drawn. This is best described by example. Here you can see an image of a kids science project.

There's some darkness in your silver light.

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:16:05 GMT

Rob voices his complaints about Silverlight 2.0 from the perspective of a developer of WPF and Flash applications.

WPF Snippets

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:16:02 GMT

Links to 2 must have snippets if you develop WPF or Silverlight products!!!

.NET 3.5 Client Product Roadmap

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:01:02 GMT

Scott is introducing upcoming features of client part of .NET 3.5

New LINQ provider for Flickr

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:31:04 GMT

LINQ provider for Flickr gives an easy way to query , add and delete Flickr photos. Here, I will give some sneak preview about how to use the provider to do different operations on Flickr, as if doing queries with SQL objects....