WPF

May 2009 - Posts

• TechEd Online video is available about Functional Programming in C#

  Yesterday I recorded a video at TechEd about Functional Programming in C#, together with my colleague Gary Short. It’s up on the site now: Functional Programming in C#. Unfortunately, the quality of the code demo in the video isn’t that great, my apologies for that. I’m not even going to go into what they made me do to the Apple logo on my laptop :-) The info at the end of the video is supposed to read something like this: Oliver Sturm / DevExpress olivers@devexpress.com – oliver@sturmnet.org Blog: – well, you’re looking at it right now Podcast: http://www.sodthis.com Have fun, and let me know what you think! Posted May 13 2009, 08:07 PM by Oliver Sturm (DevExpress) with no comments Filed under: TechEd

• TechEd 2009, the first two days

  TechEd 2009 has been great so far. It is my job to do WPF presentations as part of the giveaway game we are doing, and I got a lot of good feedback on them. Our suite is on a good level overall, with the controls you need to set up a business application, from basic navigation, docking and similar "pluming" on to data analysis controls in the shape of the DXGrid and the DXCharts. The audience appears to be mixed: of course there's still, as ever, the general distinction between web and client side devs, but there's also a distinction now between those people who are dabbling in Microsofts new UI technologies Silverlight and WPF, and those who are not. Interest in these platforms is generally good though, so I had quite a lot to do with my WPF demonstrations. The controls are very stable by now, and they are all going to be part of our 9.2 release, roughly scheduled for early July at this time. Today I also did my BOF session on parallelization and functional programming, which went great - thanks to everybody who was there! I recorded a TechEd Online video together with Gary, which they claim will be online tomorrow. Stay tuned for a link! Posted May 12 2009, 11:28 PM by Oliver Sturm (DevExpress) with no comments

• DevExpress at TechEd US next week - meet us there and win!

  As some of you might have noticed from the forums and blogs, Twitter and other news outlets, many of us at DevExpress are currently in LA, preparing everything for TechEd next week. It's going to be a great event again and you can make it better by coming to our booth! It's number 201, and of course it's really cool and huge, as I hear, so we shouldn't be hard to find. We're going to focus on our 9.1 product versions for presentations at the event (find the news for 9.1 here, if you haven't seen them yet), but of course we'll be able to answer any questions you can throw at us. We've also got a session scheduled for Wednesday, starting at 4:30pm in room 404, where Mark and I are going to give an overview of all the products that DevExpress offers - well, most of them at least. Controls for data entry, data viewing, analysis, reporting, charting, navigation, for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, Silverlight, WPF, and of course the IDE tools and frameworks - the list seems to grow continuously, and if you haven't had a chance to see all this for yourself, TechEd is a great opportunity. Last but not least, you have a chance to win great big things at our booth. I hear I'm not supposed to tell everybody yet what they are, but I think I can say that they are, well, big. And great. And a lot of fun. Stay tuned for more information or, again, make sure to stop by next week and see for yourself. Posted May 08 2009, 12:24 AM by Oliver Sturm (DevExpress) with 3 comment(s) Filed under: TechEd