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When you look up the word “Language” in the dictionary, you’ll find a few variations of similar definitions. Ich bin ein CSharper
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I'll be interested to see if my response (using the 'nym "Alan Turing") survives moderation and is posted
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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Windows Phone 8.1 accounted for more than 50 percent of all Windows Phone usage in November. It closed October with 46.7 percent of the market. "Mission Accomplished"
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So...over 50% of 2.38%[^]?
Go get'em, guys.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Like the lower back tattoo you got in college, everyone's been hoping that those mandated symbols on the bottom of your gadgets will just go away. My life is complete
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A Microsoft posting reveals deep-seated issues. Pfft, it's simple. Use Windows Forms, no... WPF. Definitely Silverlight, wait, maybe HTML/JS?
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Stable, well known issues and workarounds. Definetely better than the half-legged WPF!
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Ah, but only the dullard cannot cope with the beauty of WPF.
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While I agree there is work to be done!
I love the up coming perf tool and better DirectX last integration, and the suggestion in the article of easier styling, WPF ain't that bad!
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That is because you are a gentleman of wit and banter.
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Haha, thanks Peter!
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My real issue with WPF is the [my perceived] lack of good documentation.
There is the MSDN, but for WPF and .NET it is not useful, there are technical information but not design ones: what am I supposed to do with THAT and how can I make it interact with THAT OTHER? Secrests of Fatima.
The books I found are all fancy, like "rotate and put bitmaps in you buttons as a brush". Nice, but I definetely need something less fancy and more functional, like Blitting a 8-bit bitmap in a container with defined transformation matrices: another Secret of Fatima (unless low-level programming the DirectX, well thanks but in this case I'll stick with WinForms).
Also, though it passed some time since I worked with WPF so I don't remember clearly, there were some useful controls missing (the slider for one, if i remember well) that needed manual construction or less-than-optimal COM integration.
I guess I'll wait for WPF to be mature enough before switching from WinForms
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WPF control library ain't that bad!
And for everything else there is mastercard!
No, wait, it's free!
http://wpf.codeplex.com/[^]
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if you want to do real drawing (rotates a few images, merge them, add some line, blabla)
there are some ways (DrawingContext being one) but it quickly feel rather contrived... (and under satisfying for, say, a painting program.
It's where an easier DirectX integration would a boon!
Meanwhile you can always use WritableBitmap and this utility library
http://writeablebitmapex.codeplex.com/[^]
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Veteran developer Tony Patton lists five reasons why he believes JavaScript is the first language a person should learn if they want a job in web development. From the "Gosh, really?" file
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Well, as I want to learn neither of them, I guess I'm safe.
P.S. Here's the sum total of all my JavaScript development (more than ten years ago):
<html>
<head>
<title>Redirecting...</title>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
function redir ()
{
var targ = "http://members.aol.com" ;
targ += location.pathname.substring ( 0 , location.pathname.indexOf ( "/" , 1 ) ) ;
targ += "/main.html" ;
top.location.href = targ ;
}
</script>
</head>
<body onLoad="redir()">
</body>
</html>
It does (did) a redirect from AOL HomeTown to the Members area (pre-HomeTown websites) -- to avoid the filth that HomeTown added atop my websites.
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Yup. That way leads to madness.
TTFN - Kent
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Lang Ext, an open-source library for C# written by London-based Paul Louth, provides a set of helper functions and types that aim to "bring some of the functional world into C#" while trying to look like extensions to the language itself. Have your cake, and lambdas too
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The EU doesn't actually have the power to break up the company, but it does send a message to Google that the EU is unhappy with its business practices. "Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills."
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Microsoft is planning to detail the consumer features of Windows 10 at an event in January. Oh, I sure hope it's Themes. Everyone loves those.
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This was the subject of the latest Insider email, but to what was it referring? I couldn't find an article that seemed related to the subject, but maybe I've not had enough coffee this morning...
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NormDroid wrote: Ever heard of a search engine?
Yes... I got no results from the search box in the CP forums, having figured it would appear there since it was the subject of the CP email.
Didn't figure it would be the verbatim title of an article on another website. Thanks for the link.
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That's a fairly arcane way to pass on information... "if you wish to know, run this phrase thru a search engine; but I won't tell you explicitly".
That's even more Asberger's than I am.
Thanks, and have a great day!
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