Blendblog.net Home

Web Site Search

Sunday, September 24, 2023

Bloggers

	View All Recent Entries
	Larry Tawes - The Blendaholic
	Rob Tuch
	Sean Cullinan

Online Now:

Welcome to blendblog.net!

If you are a developer or designer who is creating cutting edge user interface experiences using Microsoft Expression Blend you've just found a great resource! The purpose of this site is to share our experience with this brand new product. As with any new piece of software there is a ton to discover. Bugs will be revealed and workarounds discovered, hopefully this can be a resource to share in the discovery process!

While this site will focus largely on Expression Blend, it will also encompass WPF, Visual Studio, Silverlight, and other .net 3.5 technologies as they relate to the creation of great software.

Please login using your Microsoft LiveID or register a new account. Doing so will let you comment on any of the blog entries on the site. We look forward to helping you in your endeavors as well as you helping others in theirs! We'd love to have more bloggers on our site...if you are interested please register and contact us!

Follow us:

Most recent blog entries

Anoymous Delegate Methods with local variables in VB
Sean Cullinan	By Sean Cullinan on 8/26/2008 8:49 PM

I often run across anonymous delegate methods when converting sample code from C# to VB. Here's how I deal with a particularly difficult conversion: one involving local variables.

Comments (2)	More...

Frustrating situation with textblock .text rendering
Sean Cullinan	By Sean Cullinan on 8/19/2008 2:05 PM

I spent 4 hours on the most frustrating thing, getting a textblocks .text property to render before UI locking code ran. Here's how I solved the problem.

Comments (1)	More...

Trick to returning datarows using WCF
Sean Cullinan	By Sean Cullinan on 8/12/2008 1:21 PM

Datarows are not inherently serializable, therefore you cannot simply return them in WCF. However there is a simple trick that will make things work.

Comments (5)	More...

.net 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008 SP1 released
Sean Cullinan	By Sean Cullinan on 8/12/2008 1:12 PM

Hope this fixes more bugs than it creates!

Comments (2)	More...

Trick with returning Datables with WCF
Sean Cullinan	By Sean Cullinan on 8/6/2008 6:04 PM

Hint: null fields make returning Datables with WCF malfunction

Comments (1)	More...

WCF DataContract and Namespaces
Sean Cullinan	By Sean Cullinan on 8/5/2008 6:16 PM

I could not get my class object to work, it turned out to be a namespace issue.

Comments (7)	More...

Phased Migration of Webservice to WCF service with Session support
Sean Cullinan	By Sean Cullinan on 6/2/2008 6:17 PM

I found some good online resources on this topic but had difficulty with session support, here's how I conquered it!

Comments (4)	More...

Massive listbox performance improvement and loading resources from resource dictionaries
Sean Cullinan	By Sean Cullinan on 5/23/2008 2:16 PM

My WPF was not performing very well and I could't figure out why. Listboxes were terribly slow to render and even slower to scroll, and performance was sluggish overall. I found out what was wrong, it involved loading resource dictionaries. Here are some things I've learned that massively increased the performance of my app!

Comments (2)	More...

Expression Studio 2 released...but be prepared to empty your wallet
Sean Cullinan	By Sean Cullinan on 5/5/2008 10:52 AM

MSFT announces release of Expression Studio 2, unfortunately those who bought Expression Studio prior to 2/24/2008 will have to pay to upgrade.

Comments (2)	More...

I'm back with an interesting note on COM Interop
Sean Cullinan	By Sean Cullinan on 4/24/2008 2:16 PM

Spent 2 days figuring out why my events weren't working...lets just say that my findings underscore the necessity of details

Comments (2)	More...



KeywordsPhrase