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The XAML designers in Visual Studio and Blend have been powerful tools for developers and designers alike to build beautiful user experiences for Windows applications. Initially designed for WPF development in 2007, So it works now?
"This release of the updated XAML designer is a very early preview of what’s to come and might be rough around the edges." OK, nothing's changed then?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: This release of the updated XAML designer is a very early preview of what’s to come and might be rough around the edges." OK, nothing's changed then?
Oh things changed alright:
Quote: The drastic nature of the changes has resulted in us disabling some of the features that previously existed in the XAML designer
 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Well, the good thing is that with XAML in one pane and design in another and other docked dialogs you can't see anything anyways. 
Not to mention the invisible controls (boundaries are hidden), which is a really nifty f...f..f...feature.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: As a result, we are only releasing the updated designer for a small subset of XAML scenarios – specifically, for developers building UWP applications that target the Fall Creators Update. If you were building a WPF application or a UWP application targeting the existing Windows 10 Creators Update or earlier, your experience will remain unchanged.
That's great for 1/10th of the 1%. Basically, the rest of us doing WPF are still screwed.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Kent didn't write that; MS did.
But yeah, if that's a permanent limitation or just them only releasing the beta version on a single platform where its open issues won't affect many people now but with the intent of extending it to the rest of mainstream workloads is a question they really should've answered. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Kent didn't write that;
Ha! That made me modify another post I just made. 
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I'm currently taking bets on whether we'll get Visual Studio support for XAML 2009 before 2019; or before WPF is forcibly retired, whichever is sooner. 
Support XAML 2009 in Visual Studio Editor and WPF markup-compiler – Visual Studio[^]
In WPF, you can use XAML 2009 features, but only for XAML that is not WPF markup-compiled.
Markup-compiled XAML and the BAML form of XAML do not currently support the XAML 2009 language keywords and features.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Hurrah! 
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GitHub, in collaboration with Facebook, are pleased to announce the launch of Atom-IDE - a set of optional packages to bring IDE-like functionality to Atom. For those who like to assemble their own (from memory-intensive parts written in JavaScript)
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Your hair is beautiful, Atomic 
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The new Apple Watch works without a phone Dick Tracy, your watch has arrived
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The Equifax PINs are based on the date and time that you set up your freeze. Meet the new dev leads: Bozo, Clarabelle, Bubbles, and Krusty
But not Pennywise
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Kent Sharkey wrote: But not Pennywise
They won't let him back in since he used an insufficiently-precise numeric type to process monetary calculations.
"You'll float too!"
I'll get my coat.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have for the first time shown that neural networks - a form of artificial intelligence - can accurately analyze the complex distortions in spacetime known as gravitational lenses 10 million times faster than traditional methods. Well, of course they are
Sorry, couldn't resist just leaving that there.
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It does sound like someone applied a simple convolution neural net on a non-optimal process and pushed it to lower class of people in the media. Still -- I am studying everything AI, data science, block-chain, and IoT these days. I missed all the earlier IT hypes because I was too smart to jump on the fools train. But now I know that you can learn from hypes or you can earn from hypes. And I'm done learning. As a poet once wrote "Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now." 
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The researchers taught an AI to study the behavior of social network users, and then design and implement its own phishing bait. Well, of course they are
Everyone's getting on the bandwagon
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You know the expression "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely?" I think for many of these people the idea is that "corruption tends to power, and absolute corruption brings absolute power." After all, our political systems are all based on the latter principle. 
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A Polish academic is accusing Google of trying to patent technology he invented and that he purposely released into the public domain so companies like Google couldn't trap it inside restrictive licenses. In a totally non-evil way?
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The last line of the article :
Quote: The mystery remains surrounding Google's decision to patent something that is in the public domain since 2014.
It doesn't seem like much of a mystery to me.
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Meanwhile in the USPTO rubber stamping office... "Do any of your see any patents on ANS compression?" "Nope." "No." "No." "Nah." "Nothing." "Cool, approved." *Sound of a rubber stamp being slammed down*
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Apple in the enterprise? It’s already there | Computerworld[^]
This is a really interesting quote from the article...
article said: "Consumer technologies are becoming the leading platforms in the enterprise market, bringing additional capabilities to enterprise apps and Apple is riding that wave to get adoption in the enterprise," said Van Baker a research vice president at Gartner. "Every enterprise worker is also a consumer."
Think about that. Enterprise decisions are being more driven by average consumers now instead of technology consumers.
A better way to say this might be...
In the past fewer people used computers (and knew how to configure them) because they were not consumer-type products. The average person understood that s/he did not understand computers so they left them to the "technology wizards" to set up.
Now, every person _feels_ as if computers are easy to use and so setting up servers and the rest is probably simple too, since I can configure my iPhone. So, now, some business-user comes along and says, "since we all know how to use iPhones, let's just use Apple Servers too. Make this happen, IT Team, because Apple is best. I know because I am a consumer who uses an iPhone." 
Or another way to say it is,
Apple always attempted to make computers into Consumer-Products while other companies tried to continue to make them very techy. Computer-centric people didn't mind the techy and made the decisions, but now as Apple has made computers more consumer-friendly they are now taking over more IT type of roles -- or want to and may in the future. Interesting. More of a long-view plan.
This all bound to sound very controversial on a web site (CP) devoted to the tech side. 
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They lost me when they removed the headphone jack 
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: They lost me when they removed the headphone jack
That's funny, but also entirely relevant since the headphone jack is a consumer-oriented item. It is an easy-to-use interface to headphones. Changing the technology forces users to think and that is a bad thing which Apple has always decided against allowing and/or encouraging.
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Thing is it's funny (which is why I wrote it) but it's also partly true. I actually ditched iPhones after the battery issue (the same issue found on 6S's and 7's) made my iPhone 6 unusable. Apple, by removing the headphone jack, has made it very unlikely I'll go back.
Personally, it'll be way too easy to lose wireless earphones when outdoors.. if my wired earphones fall out I can easily put them back in (they're still with me). If they get broken, I can replace them cheaply or borrow another set from friends.
Most of the things I do outside work require some kind of head protection, so over-the-head phones are impractical. Imagine having to walk back up a ski slope trying to find a white Apple earbud in the snow, or back up a muddy MTB track in the rain.. This is one of the mental ideas Apple seems to have these days.
Instead of making the battery actually work or something else actually useful to users, they focus on all the wrong stuff. Sad to see..
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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That all makes good sense.
Brent Jenkins wrote: Instead of making the battery actually work or something else actually useful to users
Also, think about this, Steve Jobs was a user of his technology and was the initial driver for the iPod because he wanted to be able to carry around a lot of music in a package that was no bigger than a pack of cigarettes. One thing Jobs did is make consumer-friendly devices. He made stuff that a non-tech person can use very easily.
Now, they backed away from a couple of technologies (wired headphones) that people actually like better.
Bluetooth still eats battery quite badly. Also, as you said they're not concentrating on long batter life so now consumers start feeling the other way (that Apple isn't consumer-friendly) because they've backed away from some of these things since they lost Jobs -- which may be the key to why they have begun to fail.
Home Button
Now they are considering removing the actual home button [^] which their users are also accustomed to. They are beginning to mess things up as they are thinking more about tech than about consumers.
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