RioterDeckers' HeadQuarter

This new build is really straightforward. As I said before, it is more WPF development now. Congrulations to the Team. After some hours of developement, the outcome is quiet exciting. My goal is not to provide a rich TreeView control but an...

French 1st Empire armies were the first troops who walked with an individual pack. Napoleon composed it personally and this stuff count a bit into its military supremacy.         Following is the stuff that composes...

Last week, I digged into the API. I can say that many things are done by the Team. I notice that the XAML developement with Silverlight comes more and more like WPF. For the developper who is familiar with WPF (like me), it is easier to play with....

First I want to give my respect to «Saint Gygax» who died two days ago. While he was a war gamer he imagined the way to be able to simulate small squad skirmishes. He just created Role Playing Game. Did I already said that I am a big fan of Jeff Atwood’s...

Hello guys! It was a long time ago I would like to upgrade most of my samples on the final release of WPF. For the first one, I decided to rewrite the Matrix Expander by adding some new features and improving its design. It always derived from the class...

N3RD 2007 My last post was the announcement of the conference we organized for Microsoft as netfxfactory.org   authors.  We worked hard for 45 nights to deliver a complete implementation of an alerts management system use case. The team...

In all most of the time, people are using the famous Control "DropDownList" to put a collection of data. But, what happen when this list is so huge and may a performance issue for loading your page? Even if you do that, you are killing your End-Users...

Adopting new technology is not just about building a "Hello World" Application but testing its capabilities to match precise requirements for real-world situations. After a fair amount of playing and digging in, this article aims to provide an overview...

In my previous post, it explains how to display "Parts" regarding the NavigationManager used. Let me took your attention on the bindings: MultiPartNavigationManager: {Binding Part.NavigationManager.ActiveParts} or SinglePartNavigationManager:...

1 - Introduction In my previous post, I said that Acropolis provide out of the box 2 kinds of Navigation Model : "SinglePartNavigation" and "MultiPartNavigationManager". In conclusion of my previous post, I have shortly described the limitations of...

Microsoft Code Name “Acropolis” is a set of components and tools intended to make it easier for developers to build and manage modular, business focused, client applications for Microsoft Windows on the .NET Framework You can download Acropolis CTP1....

Naturly every RioterDecker are whole nerds, but that's not the purpose today. Microsoft France ask us to organize .Net Entreprise Realization Day, a full day conference where we will share our development methodology about the framework 3.0 technologies....

It's the tendency so why not a first service pack for the GuidMarket ?More seriously, my first post about Silverlight (aka WPF/e) is especially dedicated to the technology evaluation that means the javascript code used to handle UI objects stay very "old...

After WPF, I said myself 'waoh!', that must be huge to provide the same graphical quality for the web apps, the same flexibility. I just would like to go on throwing the new type of user xp in the user's face ! It's however necessary to keep...

At least two years ago Raskal came back from a long and tiring meeting with a large smile on his face. The meeting purpose was about  helping the Release Management Team to build and deploy its first .Net app. He was already prepared to...

Sometime you read bright opinion that helps you improve your own view and level up your perception. On rarer situation those opinion are so powerful that they change forever your own referential. When this happens and you realized that the impressive...

A new developer community site NetFxFactory.org is a new developer community site that focuses on the new technologies included in the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (the technologies formerly known as WinFx). The objective of this community is to become...

The version 1.1 of ProxyFactory has been released. This version supports fully three communication technologies offered by .NET Framework : Remoting, Asmx, WSE 3.0. These technologies will be soon described as "Old school" though many developments still...

The RTM version of ProxyFactory is now available on CodePlex it has full support of ASMX, .Net Remoting and WSE 3.0. Along with the binaries available in this release, the getting started package has been updated to include WSE 3.0 sample....

The challenge is finally over and our kun-fu wasn't brutal enough to become a codemaster. Chaz worked hard on the Massai Mockup as you could have noticed here and that's why I entitle him: the old man of the waterfall. In the next few month to come...

  Even if the revolution announced by MS with its .Net 3.0 platform is just around the corner, the fact is that its adoption curve will be slow enterprise wide because the revolution goes as far as the OS both on client and server.   The...

A first release has been just published. You can get it from the Releases section. Release 1.0 Beta http://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=ProxyFactory&ReleaseId=1079 This library offers a convenient way to provide an...

Hi there, It's done, the party is over. Right now, you can find out some of the materials used for the Massaï project presentation. I suggest you to enjoy our huge project with a video that sums up the most features.WoZoI will publish the post-production...

I've just received confirmation by the code master team that the Massaï project and so I, continue the challenge. I also could find out countries of other challengers and I'm very proud to be the last frenchy geek always on the battle field !! The next...

Hi there everyone.I have just received a great breaking news from the CodeMaster Challenge admin. I'M A FINALIST !!! Yeah !! It's huge !! The Massai project is always in the place.So you will have to wait for reading next articles about WPF because...