The SCE Starter Kit , is now in beta 2 release.. The Syndicated Client Experiences (SCE) applications exploit the push capabilities of RSSwhere content is synced down to the local computer and each application retains full control over the presentation of the content. Microsoft’s Sync Framework-based...

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Microsoft released to CodePlex a series of Silverlight controls that allows for theming of sites and included several themes and some great charting examples. In the long term these were to be ported to WPF but not right away, well we have some good news to tell on this story. Over at Jaime Rodriguez...

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No, it's not the word Billy Batson yells to become Captain Marvel, but Walt Ritscher's new WPF's Shader tool for WPF for creating DirectX pixel shaders. This is worth a look and will require for you to have the DirectX SDK installed as well.. The program is a one-click install and at the website there...

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Addison-Wesley Poster Thumbnail Download the real one by clicking on the thumbnail which takes you to Brad Abrams Blog where you can download the PDF version or the Deep Zoom Version....

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Wow if you do WPF work in Blend you need to check this out as soon as possible.. Quoting The Expression Design and Blend team blog: "Thursday, October 30, 2008 2:23 PM xprblog Blend 2 SP1 + WPF Toolkit = Visual State Manager for WPF The Blend 2 Service Pack 1 contains a secret ingredient that can be...

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Thanks to Neowin.net for sharing these demos on YouTube. Editor's Notes: I really don't think this is a Windows 7 specific demo as it is being billed. It may run on Windows 7 but it looks just like a demo of the same thing I saw earlier in the year during HP's launch of the Touchsmart PC.. It's no doubt...

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Microsoft Unveils Next Version of Visual Studio and .NET Framework Amazing that this was actually announced Sept 29, 2008, but at PDC today developers got a first look. If you didn't go to PDC but want to look at it yourself check it out for yourself, GO HERE! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...

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Quoting Mike Taulty's blog : "I took the Pixel Shader library from CodePlex which has a bunch of WPF 3.5 Service Pack 1 Pixel Shaders and I built a little toy application from it. What the application does is to try and enumerate all the ShaderEffect s in the library and then take a picture of your desktop...

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Over at EclipseCon 2008 Microsoft's Sam Ramji announced that Microsoft and Eclipse are collaborating on identity management (Eclipse's Higgins Project) with Microsoft's CardSpace, and their efforts to using Eclipse technology to build Java apps for Vista. A Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) to work with...

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Over at WindowsClient.NET the first version of the WPF Application Quality Guide for you to review and offer feedback on content.. http://windowsclient.net/wpf/white-papers/wpf-app-quality-guide.aspx Here's a look at the content thus far.. Table of Contents Introduction Editions of this Document Suggested...

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