Advice on using XamRibbon with Composite WPF
If, like me, you are interested in using all the new fangled controls produced by every man and his dog, you will probably have come across the Infragistics WPF control. My mission, that I stupidly accepted, was to update the TFS Sticky Buddy application with their XamRibbon and XamDockManager controls, and anything else I can stuff in there.
The great Xbox update
I hope everyone is looking forward to the new Xbox live experience that will be going Live tomorrow! Hopefully we are passed the days of the ring of death from the update, unless you have a hacked box :)
Team Suite on the cheap
Ok, so I lied a little. It is not that cheap, but 30% off an upgrade from a team edition to full Team Suit is nothing to be sniffed at, it could be as much as £1000 off!
100,000 Visits
Well, that’s me got passed the 100,000 Visits milestone . I guess it is seams bigger than it is, but as the next big one would be a million I am chuffed to get this far :)
DDD Scotland v2.0: 2nd of May 2009
It seams that the event of the year is back! Developer Day Scotland returns for a second year as posted by Barry Dorrans in Glaswegien :)
Composite WPF and Merged Dictionaries
If, like me, you like to have changeable resource files in your application. Wither it is for changing the Theme, or interchanging templates you will need to take special care when using the
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools
There is a new release of the Power Tools for team system. As an MVP I was involved in the trial that started early this month, and I can tell you that a LOT of work has gone into these :)
TFS Data Manager
This looks like a fantastic product that will let you do pretty much everything that has been missing from TFS. You can cop / clone projects across servers. you get disaster recovery capabilities that surpass anything that has before been available!
TFS Sticky Buddy 2.0 development started…
Lets just say that it will be a while in development. I am trying to implement the Composite Application blocks for WPF from Microsoft in an attempt to make the application more modular. I will be updating and releasing under the v2.0 CTP version and I have uploaded the installation files. This is a ClickOnce application , so you will always have the latest version of the CTP.
TFS Sticky Buddy v2.0
I will be working on some new features to the Sticky Buddy application. Improvements in the interface, along with a more modular structure and more diagram offering are in the mix. I have been working on some of the enhancements and their implementation in my other lesser known project TFS Heat ITSM …
