Windows Now

No, I don't mean it's time to fire people. I mean it's time to dust off some of the legacy baggage in Vista. Have you seen the size of the ISO lately? I mean, it's great that Beta 2 was 3.2GB and that RC1 will only be about 2.6GB (most of the debug code has been removed)... but Vista still has too much...

Now that the SDK has been updated I can finally start posting on some of the really cool features that I have been playing with for the last couple of months. I've got an article in the works that is an updated version of my GelButton that I posted earlier. Its not finished yet, but if you want to get...

In DHTML you can create global CSS stylesheets that allow you to access your styles across multiple web pages. You can do the same thing by storing your resources in the application object. This is much more powerful with XAML because you can store more than just styles. For example, for my visual style...

In my last post I mentioned that drawing brush is good when you don't want your vectors to intelligently resize and layout. So what do I do when I want to reuse vectors that I do want to dynamically resize? Well the obvious solution is to build my vector elements directly inline. The only problem is...

OK, creating icons in today's world sucks... First I have to create multiple sizes of icons 16x, 24x, 32x 48x, 64x, etc. Even when I go through all the trouble of making sure I have all the different dimensions of the icons I need, I still run the risk of my icons being mangled when they show up on a...

In the SDK is a demo where I completely change the look and feel of an app by swapping out resources on the fly based on user interaction. This demo is located here if you want to try it out. I've got another demo where I have one set of resources defined on a page level that references application level...