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Please update your bookmarks, because the new url of this blog is http://khason.net/ (you have not update RSS feeds, it will be done automatically). Why I did it? Why I decided to go to “stand-alone”… Well. there are some reasons. Generally, I do not want to explain all those here, but trust me, there are some. The main reason is, that there is no responsible person in charge for this blog platform in Microsoft Israel. This why, if your blog is popular and you have a respect to your blog visitors...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/what-boots-faster-%e2%80%93-netbook-powered-windows-xp-or-nokia-e71-mobile-phone/ ] Some days ago, somebody from Microsoft was shocked, when I told him, that I’m planning to run Windows XP (and later Windows 7) as operation system for mission critical automotive device. He even checked with Windows XP embedded team boot times for XP. They told him, that the minimum can be achieved is...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/issues-you-reported-were-fixed/ ] Hi, folks. And thank you for reporting issues with WpfPerf Performance Profiling tool . Now it was fixed , so, download and use new and fixed version . Keep reporting, as you can see, you have the power to change! Imaginary by Malcolm Dare
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/for-all-those-who-have-problems-with-running-wpf-performance-profiling-tool-%e2%80%93-microsoft-cares/ ] Three days ago, I announced the new release of WPF Performance Profiling Tool . A couple hours after this was announced, I got a number of comments from you, readers. It was about issues with running this tool. I checked the issue and forwarded it to development team from Microsoft...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/the-new-version-of-wpf-performance-profiling-tool-is-available-for-download/ ] Finally, after a long time of silence, the new version of WPF Performance Profiling Tool is available for download for x32 and x64 OSs. So, what’s new there? Ton of UI improvements for Visual Profiler New search function to quick find elements in visual tree Hot path (critical path) of CPU usage aside...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/a-little-bit-about-batteries/ ] I tired to write about programming, code and similar nerd stuff. So today I’ll write about … batteries. How is it? :) Today, batteries are in use all over our life. We have a battery in our mobile phone, computer, camera, mp3 player, even microwave, alarm and hand clock. So, the main problem with batteries, scientists all over the world work about is how...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/developers-academy-3-vote-your-choice/ ] If you're "in" WPF and/or Silverlight development and want to learn more about high performance programming in WPF or your ability to develop once for WPF and Silverlight, you're invited to vote for my session in Dev Academy 3 and attend it: High performance programming with WPF in .NET framework 3.5 SP1 .NET 3.5 SP1 (Arrowhead...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/wpf-datagrid-ctp-is-here-it%e2%80%99s-also-open-source/ ] Huge amount of people asked me about DataGrid control in WPF. There are some 3rd parties providing this control for free and not, However, I always adviced them to wait until Microsoft will release it with (or after) Arrowhead . So here comes the King. Some boys and girls from MS WPF dev team have OS initiative and released WPF...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/net-35-sp1-is-rtm-and-available-for-download/ ] For all those who asked, .NET 3.5 SP1 is final and available for download. What’s inside? ASP.NET Dynamic data Core improvements for CLR A lot of performance improvements in WPF ClickOnce enhancements ADO.NET with Data Services and Entity Framework LINQ2SQL and Data Provider for SQL Server 2008, that was released last week WCF with easier...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/mastering-images-in-wpf/ ] If you are “in” WPF imaging, you, definitely, should read this post of Dwayne Need (who is SDM of WPF in Microsoft) about customizing BitmapSource. A ton of information about how to make Bitmap Source for your needs, what WIC is and how to use it. Also he has a lot of samples in CodePlex . Great work, Dwayne.
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/hlsl-pixel-shader-effects-tutorial/ ] Recently, I already wrote about PixelShader effects , introduced in .NET framework 3.5 SP1 (WPF). However it looks like for most people this syntax is still hard to understand. Today we’ll try to lean it more. In order to do this, I wrote small program, that helps you to write and debug pixel shader effects quickly. This how it looks like Hit Open...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/presenting-at-teched-developers-south-africa-2008-durban/ ] Save the date. TechEd Developers South Africa is around the corner (August 3rd through 6th). This year it will take place in Durban , the third most populous city in South Africa. This TechEd, there are four sessions assigned to me: Creating Rich Applications with Windows Presentation Foundation (300) Completely new session about...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/silverlight-accessibility-and-ceo-support-for-beta-2/ ] Yesterday, beta 2 of Silverlight was officially announced in TechEd Orlando. There are a lot of interesting changes. One of most significant changes, I want to notice and accessibility support in Silverlight. See yourself (if you do not know what this image about, see this post ) What should you do in order this to happen? Absolutely...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/just-released-parallel-extensions-%e2%80%93-june-ctp/ ] Today, Parallel Programming team released 2nd CTP for Parallel Extensions to .NET Framework 3.5. Major features in this CTP are declarative parallelist (LINQ-to-Object, LINQ-to-XML), parallel tasks and imperative data and, the most important (for me) – user mode work stealing scheduler. It makes very efficient use of parallel hardware...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/brightness-and-contrast-manipulation-in-wpf-35-sp1/ ] While being in flight, I had to learn new features, introduced in .NET 3.5 SP1. So, let’s start from image manipulation. I want to perform contrast and brightness manipulation in GPU over displayed image. In order to begin, you should download and install .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 . Meanwhile (it’s about 500 MB of download...
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