December 2009 Entries
My laptop has not been behaving lately and I figured it’s time for a wipe & a fresh install. I was compiling a list of all the apps I need to install and figured I’d share it with the world. My current feeling is that anything not on this list will have to be installed on a VM, but we’ll see how long that lasts. I really just want my new install to be clean and tidy. Development Visual Studio 2008 Expression Studio 3 SQL Server 2008 CodeRush & Refactor! Pro – you’d...
I was watching the video entitled How Do I: Get started with 3D Elements in WPF and was just completely thrown off by author, Todd Miranda’s, complete lack of visuals. So I played around with his example until I better understood what was going on and I figured I’d share. Please understand that I am not a XAML master and certainly not in 3D, so if you find any errors please let me know. The XAML that Todd starts off with is: 1: <Page xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
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Take the following XML fragment 1: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
2: <con:search-results
3: xmlns:con="http://namespace.contoso.com/business-objects"
4: xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
5: xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://www.contoso.com/dtd/syndication/biz-objects.xsd">
6: <con:search-query>ipod</con:search-query>
7: <con:result-count>2207</con:result-count>
8: <con:start-index>0</con:start-index>
9: ...
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