April 2007 - Posts

NORMA Journal Spring Quarter 2007 - Week of April 23, 2007

This week in NORMA I spent refactoring the syntax highlighting, which parses the entered text to provide tokens, or words, to be highlighted in specific colors. I made some helper methods to easily be able to get a list of all of the tokens present, including Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 26, 2007 1:10 PM by Joe | 0 Comments
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NORMA Journal Spring Quarter 2007 - Week of April 16, 2007

This quarter in NORMA I'm continuing my work on the Fact Editor, which I'm hoping to complete before the end and start on something new. I currently have the following tasks lined up: Populate Fact Editor on ObjectType Selection Implement ComandSet Wire Read More...
Posted Friday, April 20, 2007 3:03 PM by Joe | 2 Comments
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Neumont Spring Quarter 2007

This quarter at Neumont I'm taking the following classes: Sets, Probability and Number Systems Patterns Software Architectures Intro to Java EE NORMA Professional Portfolio Golf I'm especially currently enjoying my pattern's and software architectures Read More...
Posted Friday, April 20, 2007 2:48 PM by Joe | 0 Comments
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Silverlight Media Player

I spent a couple hours and threw together this simple media player. It show's playing, pausing, stopping, and full-screen. You can see it in action here , with the xaml / javascript (the important parts) bellow. You can download the full source in a Visual Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 19, 2007 6:19 PM by Joe | 1 Comments
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Elevated Command Prompt Here

I found myself looking for my "Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt Here" on my directories today. I went in search of the .inf file I got off of Scott Hanselman's site. This works in Vista, which is great! Though for what I was compiling I also needed to Read More...
Posted Monday, April 16, 2007 2:59 PM by Joe | 0 Comments
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WPF/e Becomes Silverlight

Microsoft has released the RTM name of WPF/e. I'm not sure I'm totally infatuated with the name, though I really didn't like the Vista name either and I've grown to like it. Pretty slick regardless! Developer: http://msdn.microsoft.com/silverlight User: Read More...
Posted Monday, April 16, 2007 10:18 AM by Joe | 0 Comments
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Playing Movies and Live Reflection in xaml

Following along with a tutorial I found on contentpresenter.com I found it very easy to create a live reflection of a movie playing. Blend makes this very trivial! That's only 37 lines of xaml! < Window xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 15, 2007 7:04 PM by Joe | 6 Comments
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Hosting WCF Services in IIS

Testing services on your local machine is grand, though there is often a hiccup once you put it on your live server. Such was the case when I tried hosting a simple service on my website to test the server's configuration. I received the following error: Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 08, 2007 1:59 AM by Joe | 0 Comments
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WPF Glass Button

Martin Grayson has a fantastic tutorial on creating a "glass" button in WPF using Expression Blend . If you're looking to learn the basics of Blend this is a great starting point. Making some changes in Blend then looking at the XAML rendered has helped Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007 6:59 PM by Joe | 3 Comments
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