If you’re into Silverlight/WPF development you’ll surely appreciate Karl Shifflett’s XAML Power Toys: http://tinyurl.com/karlpowertoys  Awesome (free) tool for WPF/Silverlight. XAML Power Toys Full Feature Set  includes Create ViewModel Class - from a VB.NET or C# code window, easily create a ViewModel stub that includes commands and exposed data class.  Optionally you can elect to re-implement all Model properties on the ViewModel. Create Silverlight DataForm For Selected Class - quickly create a DataForm complete with bindings that are easily associated with properties on the source class Create WPF or Silverlight DataGrid...

If you’re developing in WPF then you’ll love this great post Do you find yourself struggling to remember all the settings for WPF bindings?   Perhaps taping this three page cheat sheet to your office wall would help. http://www.nbdtech.com/Free/WpfBinding.pdf Sample Thanks Walt Can we have one of those for Silverlight as well?

You must all have seen by now the popular “Turning the Pages” British Library application. It's probably one of the most impressive WPF applications, one that has been developed by Microsoft in partnership between the British Library and Armadillo Systems. "The British Library have digitized the pages of fifteen of their most valuable works and created Turning the Pages, a browser-based WPF application that allows you to interact with these books in a virtual environment from the comfort of your home. You can open a book on your desktop and by clicking on a page,...

Working at DOL press organization gave me the opportunity to work in cooperation with Microsoft and NY Times with a number of new technologies in order to enhance the reading experience of a user. What saddens me is that these were never publicized, for various reasons I won't go into at this post. Well today I've noticed two new applications that look a lot like the ones I've developed so I thought why not share those instead and give you a glimpse of what's the future in reading. ...

 I've spoken a couple of times about innovation in Greece and I'm glad when I see other people talking about it too. So when I was invited to show all the things we're building at www.dol.gr at Microsft's Innovation Day, I was thrilled. Luckily there was WiFi netwrok availableso here are some snapshots from the event. Stay tunned more will come later...     Special thanks to Panos for the pictures

For those of you who are interested on .Net 3.0 and especially WPF here are some new resources you should definitely have a look at. The first two links are part of the new wiki, channel9 launched yesterday, while the next two are new FREE business class components you can use at your applications… Some cool WPF applications that you can download or play with todayI realy like most of them… still need to get my hands on Yahoo Messenger for windows vista though (if anyone has a copy can you please send it this way ;-)). Resources for learning WPF Free Xceed...

In case you’ve didn’t notice Marin has posted a comment regarding my WPFSubsonic project and to be more precise a way I can read my application configuration file through my custom Visual Studio Tool. Now I just need to port it to my solution that supports the INotifyPropertyChanged interface and ObservableCollection class so that SubSonic Object can be bound to WPF controls. Thanks Martin

I don’t know how long it’s been since I wrote my last Data Access Layer or piece of SQL Code, it certainly has been too long to even remember. Since then I’ve used a number of ORMs (Object Relational Mappers) or/and DAL Code Generators to perform all the tedious data access manipulation  I needed. The ones I’ve used are LLBGen : Unfortunately this free version stop evolving a long time ago (since .Net framework 1.1) and became a commercial solution,Olero’s  ORM.Net : Which was my favorite Open Source (GPL Licensed) ORM, although it...

I’ve been keeping an eye on the Panoramic Stitching research program of Microsoft Research for quite some time now, but I haven’t heard anything on Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth till today. I was left with my mouth open, to say the least. I just wish Michael had included more info for the project (like maybe a project link) in his post.

As my .Net Framework 3.0 exploration continues more questions are being razed:Does rotation means also skew?I've drawn a Rectangle and filled it with a DrawingBrush, then tried to transform the brush and rotate it by 45 degrees [see the source code]. The resulting transformation as you can see in the image is also skewed. The same applies for all brushes as well as the opacity mask ones. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?Why RelativeTransform is the default transformation?When using Microsoft Expression Interactive designer and try to transform a brush as previously mentioned [using the tool] It creates...