I spent Monday wandering around Recoleta, one of the nicer barrios in Buenos Aires. The highlight was, of course, the famed “Cementerio de Recoleta” where the rich & powerful are buried. Or, perhaps more accurately, enshrined. 🙂 cementerio de recoleta evita’s tomb @ cementerio de recoleta me @ evita’s tomb @ cementerio de recoleta floralis generica. the sculpture closes its petals at night like a real flower. outside the facultad de derecho colonial style building in recoleta
Arrived in Buenos Aires! Spent yesterday wandering around the Sunday antiques market. It was a beautiful sunny day and the streets had so much life to them. tango sign filete porteno – the most beautiful in the market the artist tango in the plaza mi amiga
me, signing my name on one of the many Vista disk posters well, if you’re gonna sign it… make it legible, right? 🙂
Next Saturday, I leave for a week in Buenos Aires. I’ll be visting my college roommate, who is currently doing a semester of law school abroad. I’m very excited! Current side trips planned: Iguazu Falls on the border of Brazil. Colonia in Uruaguay. Argentina Time: GMT/UTC -3 () (noon in Seattle = 5pm im Buenos Aires) Currency: 1 USD = 3.08 Argentine Peso Weather: 80F, Clear (forecast)
Two main types of WPF content is sandboxed today: XAML Browser Applications (XBAPs). XBAPs are online-only ClickOnce applications that are cached & run in the browser. Loose XAML. Loose XAML are XAML-only files that can be navigated to in the browser. I’ve gotten questions about the specific feature list for the WPF sandbox. Below is the high level list. Other great resources about the sandbox include: Windows Presentation Foundation Security Sandbox Whitepaper Windows SDK: WPF Partial Trust Security Security Notes on individual API reference pages If you’re interested in why something was including/excluding from the sandbox, check the above whitepaper. If …
.NET Framework 3.0 has been officially released! Go get it at: .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime Components Windows SDK for Vista and the .NET Framework 3.0 Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (Windows Workflow Foundation) Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF), November 2006 CTP Or, just navigate to an xbap on IE7. It will kick off the .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime Components install for you (after prompting, of course). 🙂
My new D80 has arrived! I’m very excited to play with it (especially in Argentina, when I travel there during Thanksgiving). I tried it out over the weekend. Here are some shots from the Pike Place Market in Seattle. (You can tell from the ambient greyness that it’s officially fall in the pacific northwest.)
Source code for the Contoso Healthcare Application is now posted on the community site! (Thanks Karsten!) This is a great app. (I demoed it at TechEd Southeast Asia & its been shown at many other events as well). It showcases, among other things: 3D fliptransitions. (This UX paradigm is similar to a doctor’s real world experience of flipping through a patient chart.) Data visualization on a 3D surface for fast comparison. Listbox styling dependent on level of information desired. Annotations on video. Patient diagnosis in flow document format. Get the code here.
Check it out! Hilarious new site called Clearification from comedian Demetri Martin. It’s in collaboration with Microsoft. The site’s first episode is already posted. 🙂
Here’s an XBAP that dynamically grabs the “styles” available to it from site of origin. Note: By “styles,” I mean distinct look & feels defined in different ResourceDictionary files, not simply the <Style> class. You could also call these “themes.” The resulting proof of concept app looks like this: The app contains a button whose look is determined by the “style” selected in a combobox. The list of available “styles” (xml file) and the associated ResourceDictionaries (xaml files) are kept up at the site of origin. Right now, the “styles” available to the app are: Fish “style” (thanks to Fil Fortes) Shiny “style” (thanks to Robert Ingebretsen) KevinButton “style (thanks …