Lashing out at VB6 collections
Someone I could not refuse asked me to “take a look” at some Excel macros written in Visual Basic For Applications (VBA), which is a limited version of VB6 running […]
Emissive Material Troubles
It turns out that emissive material is quite a tricky fellow. Petzold’s book warns not to use EmissiveMaterial by itself, and always combine it with a diffuse material, which may […]
Dynamically Adding New Flash Objects to Your Page
Back in the days of a now dormant Internet startup, we ran into an issue of how to dynamically add new objects (Flash or otherwise) to your page. If you […]
WPF: Making Objects Invisible
This is not as easy as it might have been. There is no Visible property on ModelVisual3D or GeometryModel3D. Approaches considered in this discussion on the Microsoft site include making […]
C# syntactic noise: no response
It looks like “C# future” forum is not monitored, or everyone is on vacation. My post from August 27 is still without replly
Animated properties in view model: update
I received a response to my question on the Microsoft WPF forum. Will investigate and report the results here.
One more time about TFS
Every day when I open my solution in Visual Studio I get this message box: After that Visual Studio checks out my solution file and a number of project files, […]
WPF: Cannot Combine Bindings and Other Text
It is not a big deal, but still unpleasant. It is not possible to do something like <TextBlock Text=”Speed: {Binding Path=Speed} mph” /> The text in the squiggles appears verbatim […]
Fancy Borders
I was trying to draw a “raised” border around my control, something resembling a 3D window border in Windows. I.e. something like white on the outside, gray in the middle, […]
Dependency Properties
Dependency properties are a special feature of WPF that is similar in principal to regular .NET properties, with at least two functional distinctions: They support change notifications They support special […]