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WPF XBAP apps and UAC

4November2006GeekTieGuyWPF

Here’s an interesting thing I learned the other day, which wasn’t obvious to me. If you have an XBAP WPF application that tries to access files atÂ the location identified by CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA (Environment.SpecialFolders.CommonApplicationData in .Net 2.0/3.0) they need to be marked with Read/Write permissions forÂ “Everyone”. Otherwise File Virtualization kicks in and Vista creates copies of the

How did I end up working with Windows Presentation Foundation?

9October2006GeekTieGuyWPF

In one of my past posts, I talked a littleÂ aboutÂ my impressions of Vista as a platform for software developers. Here’s the story of how I got involved with WPF. My last two projects before starting on WPF were built around hosting IE in “something”. The first “something” was an exe hosting IE and adding a

The WPF developer’s toolbelt

5October2006GeekTieGuyWPF

This is a collection of tools that should be in every WPF developer’s toolbelt, if you ask me: XAMLPad (from the Windows SDK [Full ISO|Express Web Download])Snoop (from Pete Blois)Perforator (from the Windows SDK) (Don’t forget to turn on the required debugging setting in the registry – mentioned in the article)CLR Profiler.Net Reflector (from Lutz Roeder)

Vista from a developer’s point of view

9September2006GeekTieGuy2 CommentsVista, WPF

To me Windows Vista marks a great new milestone for software developers. Not just because Microsoft invested years of development into a new programming framework, but because that framework will be included out of the box. Until now, if you wanted to take advantage of the power of the .Net Framework (1.0, 1.1 and 2.0)

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Category Archives: WPF

WPF XBAP apps and UAC

How did I end up working with Windows Presentation Foundation?

The WPF developer’s toolbelt

Vista from a developer’s point of view