James Clarke turned me on to the fact that modifying the Expression Encoder templates is trivial. I tweaked the AudioGrey template to turn off autoplay and changed the default volume. Of course, one could even take this further and really modify the templates, which Tim Heuer has a great…
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So, I've been playing with Ableton Live recently as my digital audio workstation. It is great software -- fantastic UI and awesome features as far as integration audio and midi. There's much power in this tool. I recently composed a piece called "Hill Climb" and wanted to mak…
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The folks at Yahoo! have updated their beta to now support 64 bit as well, so if you wanted to try the application but got shut down because you were on a 64 bit machine, you can go grab the latest download and install it. …
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In The New Iteration, SNOOP is discussed, a great tool for visualizing and manipulating the WPF visual tree on the fly. I also wanted to highlight some of the great community efforts that build upon this idea. Josh Smith, Andrew Smith and Karl Shifflett have released a Visual Studio Visualizer…
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I'm excited to announce the availability of a white paper that's been long in the making: The New Iteration: How XAML Transforms the Collaboration Between Designers and Developers in WPF. This is a 28 page white paper written by Jaime Rodriguez and I that digs into issues and solutions wh…
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Check it out: a beta version of Yahoo! Messenger for Vista is now out. Download it here and read about all the new features and see a video here. This is 100% WPF -- hats off to Eric Burke and company who have done a knock out job with the application. He says on his blog that he'll…
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Check out this contest for WPF applications sponsored by Lab 49. There's quite a few prizes available -- and good prizes too. The rules are pretty interesting, as they provide the data set to work with. So, the data is the equalizer: whose got the best visualization? …
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