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Adding MenuActions (think DesignerVerbs) to Cider's Right Click ContextMenu
[Attached a sample project that shows the setup for metadata assemblies as well as adds a couple of...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 08/16/2007
How are Metadata Assemblies Found?
[Update: please see:...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 08/15/2007
Adding Design Time Metadata to Cider and Blend
The extensibility points in Cider are all metadata based. That means that you use attributes to...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 08/10/2007
WPF Designer Design Time Extensibility -- Now that Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is out...
Our Cider extensibility points are finally pretty much locked down and all of the functionality you...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 08/10/2007
Recording of my TechEd talk on Cider (WPF Designer) Design Time Extensibility
For those of you who were at TechEd and missed my talk, you can see the recording at:...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 08/10/2007
Watch Me Speak at TechEd 2007
This week (June 4-8) if you are at TechEd in Orlando, please come by to watch me speak: DEV326...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 06/04/2007
Seen the Code Equivalent of this in Your Source?
I love Seth Godin's blog and I recently bought a book of his "Small is the New Big" which I'm really...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 12/01/2006
Help us Name the Adorner "Placement" APIs
Looking back to my most recent article on adorners you'll recall that we had this API on...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 11/08/2006
Detecting Design Mode
A while back, Brian posted an article about how we proposed to implement the equivalent to the...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/07/2006
3rd Party Hosting of Cider
One of the recurring questions I get is the following: Will Visual Studio’s WPF Designer be...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 08/15/2006
MonthCalendar Adorner Sample
Co-authored by Jim Nakashima and Timothy Wong. This post is a follow up to the post I had written...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 08/04/2006
Licensing in Cider
We're just finishing up the implementation of licensing in Cider, I'll let you know when it will be...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 07/25/2006
Shared Bytes, Private Bytes and Fixups
This post is actually a re-post of a post I did a little under year ago during PDC '05 after...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 07/19/2006
The Results Are In
For those of you who attended the dev lab last week at Microsoft, you'll recall I handed out a...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 07/05/2006
WPF RSS Reader Walkthrough
Wanted to point you to an article that one of our SDETs, Nikola Mihaylov, wrote -- it's an RSS...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 06/30/2006
Introducing the Orcas Cider Extensibility Team
Here is a picture of the extensibility team from a recent morale event we had with the Cider team....
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 06/21/2006
WPF Application Building Screencast
Recently a screencast by Filipe Fortes has been making its way around Microsoft. Lots of great...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 06/14/2006
.Net Framework 3.0
A while back, I had an acquaintance of mine make the statement "Microsoft is dropping .Net". With...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 06/13/2006
Your feedback is wanted: Cider Extensibility Requirements
On Cider, we're rapidly approaching a big planning phase where the outcome of that planning phase...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 05/26/2006
Better than the dream...
We just finished wrapping up the May CTP release of Cider and we're really excited about how far...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 05/24/2006
MIX06 Sessions Now Online
This years MIX06 sessions (all 52) are now online. Sessions here: https://sessions.mix06.com/ More...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 05/04/2006
Write a caption...
So jfo and I were talking lately...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 05/04/2006
Cider Adorners
Following up on my previous article on Cider Item Creation, I want to talk a bit about Adorners....
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 04/25/2006
Collections of Items in Resources
Recently, I was trying to figure out how to reuse resources within multiple collections all defined...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 04/22/2006
Cider Item Creation
In Windows Forms, there were many occasions when you wanted to separate out your design time code...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 04/11/2006
WPF Resources
I've been playing around and learning about WPF (Avalon) resources and ResourceDictionaries...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 04/05/2006
Microsoft Windows 1.03
The DigiBarn computer museum has a collection of screen shots of installing, booting and using...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 03/30/2006
Microsoft iPod Box Parody Video
A dev on the Cider team, Marco Goertz sent this around, I had a a good laugh. Story:...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 03/29/2006
WPF(/E) and XAML Links
A few links I've heard good things about or have read recently: Rob Relyea on XAML Top Ten UI...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 03/27/2006
Seen
Seen on Dare Obasanjo's email signature: THINGS TO DO IF I BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD #154I will...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 03/27/2006
UI Technologies
One of the questions I hear a lot from customers and friends is "My project is going to ship post...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 03/18/2006
Touch Me
No, not that kind of "Touch Me". Touch Screens. Touch screens have been around a long time and they...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 03/09/2006
2007 Microsoft Office Screen Shots
https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/2007office/default.mspx The Office team has really made...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 03/09/2006
XAML Serialization
Currently I'm on a diversion into the world of Cider XAML Serialization. XAML Serialization includes...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 03/08/2006
Managed Spy
Take a look at this way cool tool that Benjamin Wulfe put together called "Managed Spy" (why not...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 03/03/2006
Right on Crossbow!
The hot news from the WPF and Window Forms world is that the WPF/WF interoperability layer...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 03/02/2006
Call of Duty 2 XBOX Live
[Update] Infinity Ward is close to releasing an update that will address many of the issues people...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 02/25/2006
Developer Designer Workflow
There have been some interesting articles about Cider in the news lately: Microsoft Brews Some Cider...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 02/23/2006
WinFX February CTP
The February CTP of WinFX, the Windows SDK, Orcas Development tools (includes Cider), and VS...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 02/23/2006
Sparkling Cider - Cider and Sparkle Designer Extensibility
One of the questions that came up on our Cider newsgroup was whether Sparkle and Cider would support...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 02/21/2006
Back on the Blog
I was surprised to see how long I had gone between blog entries. A month in fact! By far, the...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 02/21/2006
What part of Cider do I work on?
I am the PM for Cider Extensibility. So, what is the Cider Extensibility story? Since Orcas will be...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 01/20/2006
Battlestar Galactica
I noticed Jessica Fosler and Raymond Chen mention the new season of Battlestar Galactica which just...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 01/07/2006
Microsoft Office Communicator
Happy New Year! I'm looking forward to 2006 -- I'll have my relocation related distractions out of...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 01/05/2006
Secret Weapons and Language Workbenches
I read a great article titled "Why Windows Presentation Foundation Will Dominate Thick Client...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 12/29/2005
Cider in the December CTP
For those of you who haven't had time to see the Cider videos or install the December CTP of WinFX...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 12/28/2005
Cider Resources
Since joining Microsoft, my blog has mainly been about the experience of joining Microsoft and this...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 12/24/2005
Second Week at Microsoft
After my second week at Microsoft (first week here), I can say that I'm slowly settling in. I have...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 12/24/2005