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Looks like great excuse for Mrs. Wife - "I'm not drinking again! It's the science experiment!" 
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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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... ![Java | [Coffee]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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