playing with Windows Phone 7

Just playing with Silverlight & Windows Phone 7. Guess, the result is quite okay so far. For what you can see, I used 2 components: – PanoramaView Control: look&feel like known from the MS presentations – AnimateOrientation: does the animation when...

Microsoft Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch Beta

Since April there is a nice way to port microsoft surface application for the growing number of multitouch screens available with Windows 7. This allows for a cool expierence on multitouch windows 7 – with the proven Development tools from the Microsoft Surface Tool...

Visual Studio 2010 mysteries

Wednesday I installed Visual Studio 2010 Premium, and played a while with the WPF-based editor. Annoying  thing: I could not select any of the controls on a WPF-Application-Form. Whenever I clicked on the TextBox, the Designer added a Border-Control. Then I...

Offline Manual

On one of my Software and Gadget sites (Gizmodo) I found an neat way to guide even the elderly easy through the first steps with their new gadget. Back to Basics

Getting your Types

In one of our projects we had a little performance problem, so we researched some stuff to get things faster. Problem: We have a XML File with a List<Base> and we wanted to generate Enterprise Architect Elements out of them. So we needed to check if the Base...

Enterprise Architect Launcher

There’s a new tool around called eaLauncher. Once registered, EA Project files (*.eap) open with this application. It lets you enable/disable EA-Plugins before the Application starts. Installation is quite simple: run the exe from anywhere on your computer and...