Monthly Archives: August 2007

UI matters (Revisited): Menus and ToolBars vs. Office 2007 Ribbons

Posted on August 29, 2007 by Patrick Smacchia

  My post about our current work in enhancing the VisualNDepend UI with Ribbon Office 2007 style got a lot of feedbacks. Thanks to everybody who participate in the debate and especially to:   Wesner Moise who took the time … Continue reading →

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Review: WPF Unleashed By Adam Nathan

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Patrick Smacchia

I recently had the chance to read WPF Unleashed by Adam Nathan.       I can’t imagine a better book to learn WPF for developers with a good win32/GDI/Windows Forms background. If you are not already experienced in these … Continue reading →

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UI matters: Menus and ToolBars vs. Office 2007 Ribbons

Posted on August 12, 2007 by Patrick Smacchia

 Update: This blog entry has been revisited here. We are currently refactoring the NDepend UI and we hope to make it simpler. Everything started from a simple, yet judicious, remark from my friends and colleagues Bob Powell and Fabrice Marguerie: … Continue reading →

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New .NET 3.5 core stuff

Posted on August 8, 2007 by Patrick Smacchia

While installing VisualStudio 2008 Beta2 I was surprised that the NET framework 2.0 installation got automatically updated. My good old copies of mscorlib.dll v2.0.50727.42 and friends got updated to v2.0.50727.1378. I expected to saw a new C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5.xxx folder but instead … Continue reading →

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