Author Archives: Robert Hill

Top 10 WPF resources

Posted on 16/06/2008 by Robert Hill

Technorati Tags: WPF,Top 10,Development Resources As a minor intermission while I put a bit more effort into the WPF article series, I thought I’d list my top 10 favourite WPF and .NET tools. Ok, here goes! The amazing free resource … Continue reading →

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FREE WPF Tutorials – Starting with how to restyle the default WPF controls

Posted on 15/06/2008 by Robert Hill

Technorati Tags: FREE WPF Tutorials,XAML,Blend,C#,Visual Studio,.Net I thought I’d posted enough light-weight topics lately, so to create a bit of solid tutorial content I though I’d start a series of tutorials / articles on how to re-style the standard controls … Continue reading →

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Cure for slow Bitttorrent downloaded with Synology DS106e

Posted on 10/06/2008 by Robert Hill

  I’ve had the slow download problem for over 2 years now, and finally managed to fix it tonight. Fair enough, the upgrade to the latest firmware may have helped, but i was still getting less than 2Kbytes a second … Continue reading →

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Synology Subversion Update

Posted on 09/06/2008 by Robert Hill

Technorati Tags: Synology,Subversion,DS106e,DS106j When I originally installed my Subversion server on the Synology box way back in March 07 the firmware on the box was pretty much OEM. I’d tweaked the firmware to allow telnet, but that was about the … Continue reading →

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Pixel Shader Effects in WPF using .Net3.5sp1 Beta

Posted on 26/05/2008 by Robert Hill

Technorati Tags: WPF,Shaders,.net3.5sp1 Well, I finally managed to get round to whipping up a pixel shader today, and a reasonable workflow with skeleton projects to enable quick(ish) turnaround during development. Since Pixel Shaders were introduced on Greg Shechters blog I’d … Continue reading →

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Rob Relyea links To RunToTheHills!

Posted on 25/05/2008 by Robert Hill

OMG! At the risk of sounding like a fanatical Fan-Boy, I’ve been linked to from Rob Relyea’s WPF blog under the CTP section! Rob’s blog entry is HERE, and as always contains mountains of useful WPF and .NET related material … Continue reading →

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MyGeneration and Referencing External Assemblies…

Posted on 17/05/2008 by Robert Hill

After spending about and hour trying to get MyGeneration to reference the FileHelpers Dll’s, I thought it would be worth pointing something out.. QUIT MYGENERATION AND RE-RUN IT AFTER YOU HAVE COPIED THE ASSEMBLIES INTO THE MYGENERATION FOLDER. Damn. I’ve … Continue reading →

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.Net3.5 SP1 problem solved!

Posted on 17/05/2008 by Robert Hill

  Just thought I’d let anyone having the same problems as me know how I ended up solving them! Basically it appears that there are a couple of updates available on Windows update that are marked as optional, but which … Continue reading →

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.Net 3.5 Disaster & Pixel shaders!

Posted on 14/05/2008 by Robert Hill

Oh No! i’ve just installed the .Net3.5 SP1 Beta  + the VS2008 SP1 Beta, and it’s completely hosed my setup šŸ™ When I open VS2008 and try to open a project, when the XAML/WPF view opens, i get the dreaded … Continue reading →

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I’m A WINNER – free iPod!

Posted on 14/05/2008 by Robert Hill

Well, not how I’d have phrased it but still. Sounds more like a Nigerian 419. But still……..  I’VE WON AN iPod! Yup. Really. An iPod!! I submitted an idea into a program we have here @ EDS, and the best … Continue reading →

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