Articles by rudigrobler (Articles: 17, Technical Blogs: 70)

Articles: 17, Technical Blogs: 70

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Average article rating: 4.45

Desktop Programming
Win32	MEFify an Applications 7 Dec 2008 Updated: 7 Dec 2008 Rating: 4.62/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.62 Licence: CPOL Views: 46,471 Bookmarked: 56 Downloaded: 1,216 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A very simple example of how to make an existing application extendible using MEF
WPF	How to create stock charts using the Silverlight Toolkit 16 Feb 2009 Updated: 16 Feb 2009 Rating: 4.70/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 142,066 Bookmarked: 65 Downloaded: 2,704 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An article on how to create a Candlestick stock chart using the Silverlight Toolkit.
	PhotoBooth 17 Jun 2009 Updated: 25 Jun 2009 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.36 Licence: CPOL Views: 84,201 Bookmarked: 95 Downloaded: 3,025 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An article on how to create a kiosk application that displays photos received via BlueTooth.
	Creating an Outlook Navigation Pane by Restyling a WPF TabControl 4 Mar 2008 Updated: 24 Jun 2008 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 52 Popularity: 7.93 Licence: CPOL Views: 267,804 Bookmarked: 192 Downloaded: 8,481 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Restyling a standard TabControl to look like an Outlook Navigation Pane
	Introduction to the WPF DataGrid 12 Aug 2008 Updated: 12 Aug 2008 Rating: 2.68/5 Votes: 45 Popularity: 4.44 Licence: CPOL Views: 346,650 Bookmarked: 54 Downloaded: 4,286 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A article show how to use the new DataGrid in WPF
	Creating an Outlook Calendar using WPF (Part 1) 21 Oct 2008 Updated: 21 Oct 2008 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 72 Popularity: 8.91 Licence: CPOL Views: 281,467 Bookmarked: 229 Downloaded: 13,861 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Recreate the Outlook Calendar using WPF.
	Creating an Outlook Calendar Using WPF (Part 2) 11 Nov 2008 Updated: 11 Nov 2008 Rating: 4.55/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 5.82 Licence: CPOL Views: 119,126 Bookmarked: 76 Downloaded: 7,238 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Part 2 in a series on how to create a replica of the Outlook Calendar (and Appointments) using WPF.
	WPF Skinning Gotchas 9 Aug 2007 Updated: 9 Aug 2007 Rating: 3.40/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 3.07 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 38,590 Bookmarked: 36 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The following article documents my personal opinion on skinning using styles & resources. It also documents some of the gotchas I ran into while skinning an already existing application
	Creating a simple Facebook Application using WPF 15 Aug 2007 Updated: 7 Sep 2007 Rating: 4.79/5 Votes: 36 Popularity: 7.34 Licence: Not specified Views: 216,806 Bookmarked: 135 Downloaded: 9,416 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The following article details how to create a very simple Facebook application using Facebook Platform & WPF
	ListBox Drag & Drop using Attached Properties 11 Jan 2008 Updated: 28 Jan 2008 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.69 Licence: CPOL Views: 86,565 Bookmarked: 45 Downloaded: 3,671 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Enabling drag & drop between Listboxes using Attached Properties (In only 1 line of code)
	Adding Glass Effect to WPF using Attached Properties 10 Jan 2008 Updated: 28 Jan 2008 Rating: 4.60/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.54 Licence: CPOL Views: 146,277 Bookmarked: 61 Downloaded: 5,231 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An example of how to add glass effect to your WPF applications using attached properties with only 1 line of code!!!
	AdventureWorks.WPF (Part 1) 4 Apr 2008 Updated: 4 Apr 2008 Rating: 3.77/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 5.06 Licence: CPOL Views: 103,602 Bookmarked: 96 Downloaded: 2,670 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. My quest to create a real world line-of-business application
	OpenXML + FlowDocument = OpenFlowDocument? 8 Apr 2008 Updated: 8 Apr 2008 Rating: 4.74/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.28 Licence: CPOL Views: 92,071 Bookmarked: 47 Downloaded: 2,203 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An article on how to render a Word document in a WPF FlowDocument control by parsing the OpenXML WordML using XLINQ
	Styling a Silverlight Chart 27 Jan 2009 Updated: 27 Jan 2009 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 58 Popularity: 8.32 Licence: CPOL Views: 263,783 Bookmarked: 87 Downloaded: 5,421 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A article on how to style a standard Silverlight chart to look like the Google Analytics chart.
	WPF: Windows 7 like Button Color Hot Tracking 21 Oct 2009 Updated: 28 Oct 2009 Rating: 4.26/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.44 Licence: CPOL Views: 50,180 Bookmarked: 42 Downloaded: 1,010 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A nice idea that you can apply to your code
Mobile Apps
Windows Phone 7	TextBox.TextChanged Event Fires Twice on the Phone 4 Apr 2011 Updated: 4 Apr 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,341 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A fix to the TextBox TextChanged event firing twice on the Windows Phone 7 emulator
	Podium 30 Sep 2010 Updated: 4 Oct 2010 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 6.17 Licence: CPOL Views: 55,454 Bookmarked: 26 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Podium is a PowerPoint add-in and Windows Phone 7 app for controlling Powerpoint from Windows phone 7 devices

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	Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe [Technical Blog] 27 Aug 2010 Updated: 27 Aug 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,320 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I have seen VARIOUS implementations of dependency properties… which one should I choose?
	Mahhala – FluidKit [Technical Blog] 12 Jul 2010 Updated: 12 Jul 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,620 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Chat with Pavan Podila, the creator of FluidKit and the author of THE book about WPF control development!
	MonoDroid (Part 1): Installation [Technical Blog] 24 Jan 2011 Updated: 24 Jan 2011 Rating: 4.71/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.25 Licence: CPOL Views: 37,741 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. MonoDroid (Part 1): Installation
	Building OpenPOS: Part 3 – Scaffolding and Navigation [Technical Blog] 1 Apr 2010 Updated: 1 Apr 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,170 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Building OpenPOS: Scaffolding and Navigation
	Building OpenPOS: Part 5 – SalesModule (Part 2) [Technical Blog] 13 Apr 2010 Updated: 13 Apr 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,921 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Building OpenPOS: SalesModule
	Building OpenPOS: Part 6 – Make It Look Pretty… [Technical Blog] 6 May 2010 Updated: 6 May 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,700 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Before I can start with cosmetic surgery, let's just finish off the SalesModule.
	Building OpenPOS: Part 9 – Settings and Notifications [Technical Blog] 12 Aug 2010 Updated: 12 Aug 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,250 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Building OpenPOS – Settings and Notifications
	Mahhala – FluidKit [Technical Blog] 12 Aug 2010 Updated: 12 Aug 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,560 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Mahhala (isiZulu word for free or without charge) is a new series that showcase some of the cool free WPF/Silverlight controls available…“You can learn a lot by reading other people's source code.
	Mahhala – FluidKit [Technical Blog] 23 Aug 2010 Updated: 23 Aug 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,320 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Mahhala (isiZulu word for free or without charge) is a new series that showcase some of the cool free WPF/Silverlight controls available…“You can learn a lot by reading other people's source code.
	Creating a IE9-like UI [Technical Blog] 17 Sep 2010 Updated: 17 Sep 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,380 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Creating a IE9-like UI
	S-OOB + W7 = ? [Technical Blog] 7 Oct 2010 Updated: 7 Oct 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,970 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Registry script to associate your .xap files with sllauncher.exe
	Hacking the WP7 Camera (The basics) [Technical Blog] 28 Jan 2011 Updated: 28 Jan 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,930 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Before you start, you need to get the Microsoft.Phone.Media.Extended.dll and GAC it.
Database Development
NoSQL	Building OpenPOS: Part 7 – NoSQL, MSSQL, SQL CE? [Technical Blog] 6 May 2010 Updated: 6 May 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,510 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Building OpenPOS: Part 7 – NoSQL, MSSQL, SQL CE?
Desktop Programming
MFC	Who’s the Boss [Technical Blog] 5 Sep 2010 Updated: 5 Sep 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,011 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Who's the boss?
WPF	OutlookBar for WPF & Silverlight [Technical Blog] 28 May 2010 Updated: 28 May 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,040 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. OutlookBar for WPF & Silverlight
	OutlookBar for WPF & Silverlight [Technical Blog] 12 Aug 2010 Updated: 12 Aug 2010 Rating: 4.14/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 1.98 Licence: CPOL Views: 23,070 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. OutlookBar for WPF & Silverlight
	OutlookBar for WPF & Silverlight [Technical Blog] 23 Aug 2010 Updated: 23 Aug 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,130 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. OutlookBar for WPF & Silverlight
	Open-Source WPF Reporting Engine [Technical Blog] 1 Apr 2010 Updated: 1 Apr 2010 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.41 Licence: CPOL Views: 62,737 Bookmarked: 28 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I have seen so many people use FlowDocuments to create reports! This is really cool but what if you need a more complex reporting engine! Can it handle it? Can it be abstracted and reused! Do you have to start from scratch each time?
	Inter-process Mediator [Technical Blog] 1 Apr 2010 Updated: 1 Apr 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,780 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Imagine for a second that you are writing an application like Outlook… let's call it MiMail.exe! This application is very basic and has 3 views that are relevant to me! I want to be able to see my mail, contacts and calendar!
	Mahhala – Fluent Ribbon Control Suite [Technical Blog] 20 Jun 2010 Updated: 20 Jun 2010 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.10 Licence: CPOL Views: 35,520 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Mahhala (isiZulu word for free or without charge) is a new series that showcase some of the cool free WPF/Silverlight controls available… “You can learn a lot by reading other people's source code. That's the idea behind this series.
	Mahhala – Fluent Ribbon Control Suite [Technical Blog] 12 Aug 2010 Updated: 12 Aug 2010 Rating: 3.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 20,731 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Fluent Ribbon Control Suite
	Make Your WPF Buttons Color Hot-track! [Technical Blog] 1 Apr 2010 Updated: 1 Apr 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,620 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Make your WPF buttons color hot-track!
	Mahhala – WPF NotifyIcon [Technical Blog] 5 Jul 2010 Updated: 5 Jul 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 25,660 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Discussion with Philipp Sumi, the creator of WPF NotifyIcon
	Mahhala – WPF NotifyIcon [Technical Blog] 12 Aug 2010 Updated: 12 Aug 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,060 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. WPF NotifyIcon
	Mahhala – WPF NotifyIcon [Technical Blog] 23 Aug 2010 Updated: 23 Aug 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,600 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. WPF NotifyIcon
	Make Your WPF Buttons Color hot-track! [Technical Blog] 25 Aug 2010 Updated: 25 Aug 2010 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.35 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,121 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Make your WPF buttons color hot-track!
	Simplified TextBox focus in WPF 4 [Technical Blog] 10 Sep 2010 Updated: 10 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,500 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Simplified TextBox focus in WPF 4
	Mahhala – Bag o' Tricks [Technical Blog] 14 Jun 2010 Updated: 14 Jun 2010 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.44 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,030 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this, my first edition of Mahhala, we will look at the awesome set of controls by Kevin Moore called Bag of Tricks (BOT).
	Building OpenPOS: Part 9 – Settings and Notifications [Technical Blog] 24 May 2010 Updated: 24 May 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,931 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Building OpenPOS – Settings and Notifications
	Mahhala – Bag o' Tricks [Technical Blog] 12 Aug 2010 Updated: 12 Aug 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,150 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Mahhala (a isiZulu word for free or without charge) is a new series that showcase some of the cool free WPF/Silverlight controls available. You can learn a lot by reading other people's source code.
XAML	Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar - Progress [Technical Blog] 26 Oct 2010 Updated: 26 Oct 2010 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 1.91 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,200 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar - Progress
	Building OpenPOS: Part 4 – SalesModule (Part 1) [Technical Blog] 1 Apr 2010 Updated: 1 Apr 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,310 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Building OpenPOS: SalesModule (Part 1)
Entity Framework
	Building OpenPOS: Part 10 – Code First [Technical Blog] 23 Aug 2010 Updated: 23 Aug 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,100 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Historically Microsoft has always focused on the “Database first” model, where you build a database and then from this database create a data layer… With Entity Framework 4, we now can do what is referred to as “Model first” design.
Fluent
	Mahhala – Fluent Ribbon Control Suite [Technical Blog] 23 Aug 2010 Updated: 23 Aug 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,520 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Mahhala - Fluent Ribbon Control Suite
Mobile Apps
Windows Phone 7	vNext [Technical Blog] 12 May 2011 Updated: 12 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,750 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The top requested features for Silverlight, WP7, and WPF
	TextBox.TextChanged Event Fires Twice on the Phone [Technical Blog] 12 May 2011 Updated: 12 May 2011 Rating: 2.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,630 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The TextChanged event fires twice for TextBox in Windows Phone 7.
	Making the ApplicationBar bindable [Technical Blog] 12 May 2011 Updated: 12 May 2011 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.35 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,590 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 80 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to make the ApplicationBar bindable.
	Professional Audio Recorder [Technical Blog] 7 Feb 2011 Updated: 7 Feb 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 26,592 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An audio recorder for Windows Phone 7
	Simple Error Reporting on WP7 REDUX [Technical Blog] 8 Feb 2011 Updated: 8 Feb 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,000 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Simple Error Reporting on WP7 REDUX
	WP7: WebClient vs. HttpWebRequest [Technical Blog] 11 Feb 2011 Updated: 11 Feb 2011 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 61,852 Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Which one should you use?
	Making the ApplicationBar bindable [Technical Blog] 14 Mar 2011 Updated: 14 Mar 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,630 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 47 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to make the ApplicationBar bindable in a WP7 application.
	WP7 TombstoneHelper [Technical Blog] 29 Mar 2011 Updated: 29 Mar 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,870 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. What data to save when your application is tombstoned
	WP7 TombstoneHelper [Technical Blog] 12 May 2011 Updated: 12 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,150 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 123 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. When your application gets tombstoned, you get an opportunity to save some state about your application. What should be saved, where to save it, and when?
MVVM
	Windows Phone 7 MUST HAVE Toolkits [Technical Blog] 24 Jan 2011 Updated: 24 Jan 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,220 Bookmarked: 19 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Windows Phone 7 MUST HAVE Toolkits
Operating Systems
Windows 7	Using the GPS, Accelerometer & Vibration Controller [Technical Blog] 6 Apr 2010 Updated: 6 Apr 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,050 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use the GPS, Accelerometer & Vibration Controller
Programming Languages
C#	Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Jumplist (Part 2) [Technical Blog] 1 Apr 2010 Updated: 1 Apr 2010 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,500 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. If your application is associated with a specific file extension, then you get the last part for free! The taskbar also lists files opened by your application in the Recent category!
	Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Jumplist (Part 1) [Technical Blog] 1 Apr 2010 Updated: 1 Apr 2010 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,701 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Jumplist (Part 1)
	Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – TabbedThumbnail (Part 1) [Technical Blog] 1 Apr 2010 Updated: 1 Apr 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,920 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. One of the “features” of the new taskbar that excites me is the TabbedThumbnail interface! This allows me to quickly see which applications are open and what their status is!
	Anatomy of the Windows 7 Taskbar - ThumbnailToolbarButton [Technical Blog] 1 Apr 2010 Updated: 1 Apr 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,230 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. With Windows 7’s public release less than 2 weeks away (22 October 2009), I decided to dig into how the taskbar works!
	Building OpenPOS: Part 8 – Windows 7 Love [Technical Blog] 20 May 2010 Updated: 20 May 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,820 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Building OpenPOS – Windows 7 Love
	Building OpenPOS: Part 8 – Windows 7 Love [Technical Blog] 12 Aug 2010 Updated: 12 Aug 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,470 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Building OpenPOS - Windows 7 Love
	Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit is Loopy [Technical Blog] 21 Sep 2010 Updated: 21 Sep 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,000 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit is Loopy
	Reading Barcodes from Your WP7 Device [Technical Blog] 26 Jan 2011 Updated: 26 Jan 2011 Rating: 4.43/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.67 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,391 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Reading barcodes from your WP7 device
	A DataForm with a Little Configuration (Or is it Convention)? [Technical Blog] 4 Jun 2010 Updated: 4 Jun 2010 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.30 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,570 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A DataForm with a little configuration (or is it convention)?
	Create your own Hulu.com [Technical Blog] 1 Apr 2010 Updated: 1 Apr 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,890 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This demo will ONLY focus on the VIDEO ON DEMAND scenario!
	Building OpenPOS: Part 10 – Code First [Technical Blog] 27 Jul 2010 Updated: 27 Jul 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,420 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Building OpenPOS: Part 10 – Code First
	Building OpenPOS: Part 10 – Code First [Technical Blog] 12 Aug 2010 Updated: 12 Aug 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,220 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Building OpenPOS – Code First
	Building OpenPOS: Part 11 - ClickOnce [Technical Blog] 8 Sep 2010 Updated: 8 Sep 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,870 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. ClickOnce
	Taking Sterling for a Test-Drive [Technical Blog] 27 Jan 2011 Updated: 27 Jan 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 5,290 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Taking Sterling for a Test-Drive
	SQLite on WP7 [Technical Blog] 27 Jan 2011 Updated: 27 Jan 2011 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.44 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,730 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. SQLite on WP7
XML	Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – TabbedThumbnail (Part 2) [Technical Blog] 1 Apr 2010 Updated: 1 Apr 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,670 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In my “quest” to create thumbnails similar to the ones used in Internet Explorer 8, I hit a couple of snags!
	7MC Gofer [Technical Blog] 23 Jun 2010 Updated: 23 Jun 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 27,405 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. 7MC Gofer is a Windows Phone 7 based remote control for my Windows Media Center.
	Mahhala - WPF MediaKit [Technical Blog] 21 Sep 2010 Updated: 21 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.30 Licence: CPOL Views: 43,161 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Chat with Jeremiah Morrill, the creator of the WPF MediaKit
	REPOST: Create your own IDE in 10 minutes [Technical Blog] 6 Sep 2010 Updated: 6 Sep 2010 Rating: 1.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 27,314 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The purpose of this post is to introduce you to two control libraries that might just do that!
	DoubleClickCollapseGridSplitterBehavior [Technical Blog] 9 Sep 2010 Updated: 9 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.11 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,950 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Answer to a very interesting question on StackOverflow...
	Building OpenPOS: Part 3 – Scaffolding and Navigation [Technical Blog] 9 Sep 2010 Updated: 9 Sep 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,520 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Scaffolding and Navigation
	Double-width Tiles [Technical Blog] 4 Oct 2010 Updated: 4 Oct 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,600 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Double-width tiles
RIA
	vNext [Technical Blog] 22 Feb 2011 Updated: 22 Feb 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,831 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The top requested features for WPF, Silverlight and WP7
Silverlight
	Is Silverlight Eating Adobe's Bread and Butter? [Technical Blog] 6 May 2010 Updated: 6 May 2010 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.71 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,120 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Is Silverlight eating Adobe's bread and butter?
	Obfuscating Silverlight [Technical Blog] 16 Sep 2010 Updated: 16 Sep 2010 Rating: 2.33/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 1.11 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,681 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Obfuscating Silverlight

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Articles by rudigrobler (Articles: 17, Technical Blogs: 70)

Articles: 17, Technical Blogs: 70

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Fluent

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