This is one funny thing I found while fiddling around with WPF, Cider and the other parts from the newest CTP release: every now and then it’s required to rebuild the complete solution. I suppose it’s not meant to be that  way, but I’ve had all kinds of interesting effects. One time there was a weird exception coming up at runtime, telling me that a Button can’t be cast to a ListBox. The other time it was just some initialization code for a control that was apparently being executed, but didn’t …

VS 2005 has been the only application so far in which I have found a problem that’s clearly related to incompatibility with the new desktop composition done by DWM (Desktop Window Manager). It works for the most part, but apparently it has problems calculating the positions of certain on-screen elements. For example, with composition activated, the Intellisense popup always appears in front of the text I’m editing. Really just a small issue, but a pretty important one… Switching desktop compo …

Session proposals for Developer Developer Developer day 3 are closed and voting has been opened today. Be sure to put your check marks in the right places if you want to see any of the sessions I submitted! By the looks of it there are loads of interesting things to see on the day, so I recommend everybody should definitely take the time to cast his/her vote and of course to be there! …

This is really funny behaviour I’m seeing with Firefox on Vista… it doesn’t show me the correct background colors in web pages. The pictures on the right show how my blog page is supposed to look (I hope most of you see it that way, with the orange background) and how it looks in Firefox. I should add that of course Firefox works just fine on XP, only not on Vista, and that this problem is not specific to my blog page — I s …

I hadn’t seen this yet: Windows XP boots on a Macbook Pro Conclusion: Some people are able to reach unbelievable levels of boredom :)

I have just published this: Transactions and Units of Work

The next version of XPO (eXpress Persistent Objects) from Developer Express has finally been released. A list of new features is here. I’m currently working on a number of technical articles that will soon start to appear in the list on this page - look out for that if you’re into XPO. And if you’re not (yet), be sure to download a demo of the complete suite including XPO from here. …

As I already reported, ATI has new drivers available for Vista build 5308. Now I’ve tried them and the result is, well, mixed.

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