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Very stable. We have the preview in production and have all the betas in production since day one.
It's just a super XAML tool, so it really won't hurt your application the build.
A few very minor items to get used to, but he payback is huge.
modified 27-Feb-21 21:01pm.
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I'd certainly look into it but at the moment my programming seems to being steered towards Delphi  (Uni) and ASP.NET.
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Thanks for the suggestions, however I think I'd better get on with revision rather than messing around with Blend 
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Nope end of first year and I haven't really paid that much attention through the year 
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Ahhh. But seriously though - Delphi???? This is the reason grads have so much trouble finding decent work when they leave Uni - lack of practical experience (although you should be all right in that respect).
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Though not a Computer Science degree as you might think. Electrical & Electronics Engineering for me, although at the moment I am doing much better in the software & digital electronics side of things, suprise suprise
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Pete & Ed,
Pete is correct. The first time i saw Blend, I went nuts. AHHHHHHHHHHHH,,,,, WHAT'S THIS?????????
Then I started to feel the love and look at Blend as a designer tool, then went around giving presentations showing developers this is the coolest tool, with an "artboard" and "property inspector."
I used lynda.com for two months and also have a subscription to Total Training.
The Microsoft Expressin site also has many links to free training material.
In attition, you can surf the web, many people have videos out there, showing off what they did with Blend.
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How does XNA relate to DirectX and vice versa?
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XNA is a gaming framework built on top of DirectX. It's like asking how does a button relate to GDI+.
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Doesn't it also depend on what part your using?
I've been looking into audio support for my app recently and it seems that XAudio2 is going to be a complete wholesale replacement of DirectSound. XAudio2 being cross platform between XBox and PC.
Hmm ... I'm really not making any progress on my audio implementation either 
Jammer
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Jammer wrote: Doesn't it also depend on what part your using?
I've been looking into audio support for my app recently and it seems that XAudio2 is going to be a complete wholesale replacement of DirectSound. XAudio2 being cross platform between XBox and PC.
Hmm ... I'm really not making any progress on my audio implementation either
Interesting - I've not looked into DirectSound recently (beyond having done some stuff with DirectX filters for Sonar).
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Really? I use SONAR as my main tool of choice for my recording studio
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Jammer
Going where everyone here has gone before!
My Blog
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Jammer wrote: I use SONAR as my main tool of choice for my recording studio
Cool. I love Sonar (it just fits easier with my being a guitarist), and I compose on Sibelius.
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So XNA is some kind of a wrapper to DirectX, just as WPF is, correct?
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Yoyosch wrote: So XNA is some kind of a wrapper to DirectX, just as WPF is, correct?
Superficially yes. It's designed to make creating XBOX and Windows games easier than doing it in raw DirectX.
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Thanks, that`s all what i wanted to know.
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After a bit of head scratching, I finally discovered how to marshal calls to the UI thread using the dispatcher object - and it turns out the whole process will be familiar to anyone who has done the same with Winforms:
private delegate void dUpdate();
private void update()
{
if (this.Dispatcher.CheckAccess())
{
}
else
{
this.Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(new dUpdate(this.update), new object[] {});
}
}
Now the reason this involved some head scratching is that the CheckAccess property of the dispatcher doesn't actually appear in intellisense. Would that reason be because this is still a beta and the bugs are still being ironed out, or is it likely that MS will remove it from Silverlight at some point (I note, however, that the dispatcher and this method is very important to fully-blown WPF)?
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martin_hughes wrote: I finally discovered how to marshal calls to the UI thread using the dispatcher object - and it turns out the whole process will be familiar to anyone who has done the same with Winforms:
Great! thanks for sharing..
Some from SL forum shares the following code too. Ref http://silverlight.net/forums/p/665/1129.aspx[^]
new Thread(()=> {
mySilverlightTextBlock.Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(()=> mySilverlightTextBlock.Text = "Updated from a non-UI thread.");
}).Start();
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Bugs in the beta. As this is the usual method in WPF, I don't see them dropping it so I suspect that the Silverlight designer is at fault.
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pratap21b4u wrote: sfsdfsfsdf
 The medication kicking in for you is it?
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Hi All,
I am working with WPF application but i am new with that so i have to add bitmap on button at bottum.
can anybody give some idea how can i add images on button and text at top of the button in WPF Application?
Thanks
Bankey
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