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November 2003 - Posts
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Some of the SVG evangelists have put together a SVG Programmers’ Application Resource Kit (aka SPARK) website . It has some pretty cool SVG programming examples, and is meant to promote “programming” with SVG. If you hit the SVG version of the site (requires Read More...
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Sunday, November 30, 2003 7:06 PM
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I’ve known about the the ForgetFoo and his side project GotFoo websites for a while, but haven’t mentioned them on my blog. It seems as though he creates all his own graphics, and has a bunch of cool javascript tricks to make his sites very unique. The Read More...
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Sunday, November 30, 2003 10:48 AM
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When using a COM component created by a company known for their great cross platform statistics software, but not known for their Windows expertise, creates a COM component and sets the component’s threading model to both (STA and MTA models), don’t trust Read More...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2003 4:01 PM
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Ahhhhh! I hate it when good programs go bad. As you can probably tell from the lack of good quality posts lately, I’ve been busy with work. At my client, we are at the end of our development cycle, and getting ready for formal testing (thanks to all the Read More...
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Thursday, November 20, 2003 6:54 PM
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If you happen to work in the Financial Services industry and haven’t checked out the 3rd Annual XML for Financial Services conference , I’d humbly suggest that you may want to check it out. It will be held January 26-28, 2004, in New York City. And if Read More...
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Thursday, November 20, 2003 4:00 PM
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Taking Pablo’s suggestion of using Illustrator to create XAML-GUI, I was able to get it to work with a few caveats. Yes, Illustrator can create XAML-GUI thru Illustrator’s printing functions and the WCPD , but it is hard to control the generated output. Read More...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2003 6:47 AM
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Well, it took a little longer than I thought, but I finally got the current version of SharpVectorGraphics converted to run on .Net 2.0 and the Longhorn SDK (PDC build), and added a print feature. Sometimes when you are experiencing some weird problems, Read More...
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Sunday, November 16, 2003 1:05 PM
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Pablo Fernicola (correctly) reminded me that although XAML-GUI may have borrow some ideas from SVG, SVG also borrowed some ideas from VML. I’ve fixed my references to the path shorthand stuff in my ongoing article on converting Paths from SVG to XAML-GUI. Read More...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:34 AM
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In reading various posts (including a small rant by Don Box in Sam Ruby’s Ruby’s No Dynamic XAML post) there seems to be major confusion over what to call the subset of XAML used in creating graphics and UI elements. Since XAML is much more than just Read More...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2003 9:22 AM
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Before I forget to blog about it, Andrew Brust will be speaking on ADO.Net and XML at the N3UG (that’s the North New Jersey .Net User Group) meeting tonight at 6:00PM. This event is sponsored by the great folks at INETA . Also, if you live in Central/South Read More...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2003 8:36 AM
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Since I’ve been hard at work trying to convert all types of SVG to XAML I’ve got mired down in the conversion of 2 Pathing formats, and trying to compare/contrast them. There are pros and cons to the way SVG and XAML implement Paths in their respective Read More...
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Monday, November 10, 2003 1:36 PM
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While going thru the process of learning to convert SVG to XAML , I always had in the back of my mind that I would eventually write a tool that do this conversion automatically. I had assumed that it would be a bit of a chore to do, and that I would use Read More...
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Friday, November 07, 2003 8:28 AM
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I’m trying to convert some more complex SVG Paths to the equivalent XAML PathSegement elements, and have run into another major stumbling block that I can’t seem to find an easy way around. In SVG, when describing a path, we can mix relative and absolute Read More...
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Wednesday, November 05, 2003 8:18 PM
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Just a reminder, the November NJMSDEV meeting is tomorrow, Thursday the 6th at 5:30PM. The topics will be: Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 There's a new Sharepoint portal server out there. This presentation covers the new features and how it uses .NET. Read More...
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Wednesday, November 05, 2003 11:20 AM
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Well it didn’t take long to find my first gotchya in XAML. In trying to layout my SVG to XAML conversion process I found out that in this release of Avalon each custom control needs to be in a separate assembly. What I was trying to do is to map each Read More...
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Tuesday, November 04, 2003 9:03 AM
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One of the things I want to do with blog is to help the SVG developer learn XAML , and get the XAML developer to understand SVG. Hopefully by crossing training both groups we can help make both technologies much better. I believe that both groups can Read More...
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Tuesday, November 04, 2003 8:22 AM
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I got Longhorn up and running over the weekend without much in the way of problems. I'm using a Dell Precision 410 Workstation (which is more than a few years old) with dual PII 400 CPUs, 512 RAM, and SCSI drives all around. It has a Radeon 9000 Pro GPU Read More...
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Monday, November 03, 2003 11:56 AM
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