Two of our architects, Mike Hillberg and Rob Relyea, blogged up a storm while I was gone. There is a great wealth of information on both of their blogs, and I am learning a lot about WPF by reading them. I’m especially impressed that Mike has only been blogging for 12 days and has already contributed […]
Archive for September, 2006
While I was on vacation, Seema blogged that WPF will not have hardware acceleration for layered windows on Windows XP. Nick elaborates a bit to explain that while we did once have partial support for this, it was unreliable and sometimes slower than software rendering. Rest assured that hardware acceleration is still there for Vista. […]
How Controls Retain Their State when You Navigate Away
Published September 26th, 2006 in Avalon. 4 CommentsOver on Bea’s excellent blog, Sam asked a great question about how controls retain their state when you navigate away from a page:
This got nothing to do with threads, sorry for intruding, but I don’t know where to ask this question (managed newsgroups provide no answer)
When you navigate back in a browser-like WPF application, the pages are re-created (at […]
I have the RC1 build of Windows Vista running on an old-ish machine at work - the machine has 512 MB of RAM, which means that my Windows Experience Index is a measly 2.9. Given that, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the OS is quite zippy, and not to mention extremely fun to […]
My good friend Matt from my Microsoft internship days recently started a blog (which reminds me that I still need to repost all of my old photos from that summer). Matt is an extremely funny guy who was in UPenn’s improv troupe while he was an undergrad there. I definitely recommend his fortune cookie post if you want […]
…because he lets me take pictures like this one:
(Just outside a tourist shop in the Dam, Amsterdam.)
As a wedding gift, Vidya and John got us a wine tasting lunch and cellar tour at a castle/vineyard called Castello di Gabbiano in the hills outside of Florence. After plotting out our course on the map, we got into our trusty little rental car (a Fiat Panda) and ventured out into the Tuscan hills.
We […]
