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April 2006 - Posts

On Optimizing: Tips for the inner loop

Posted Friday, April 28, 2006 8:56 AM by loufranco
Everyone knows the first two rules of optimizing: (1) Don't pre-optimize, and (2) Use a profiling tool to make sure you spend time optimizing the right code. I mostly agree with (1) -- I'll get back to that in a bit, and nothing beats a good profiling Read More...
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XAML vs. The Humble Dialog Box

Posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 12:20 PM by loufranco
The Humble Dialog Box [pdf] is a pattern to separate UI behavior from code that deals with a specific view technology, like WPF. Essentially, for each window you have a UI data/behavior class, an abstract view class (or interface), and a concrete view Read More...
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How not to cut yourself

Posted Tuesday, April 04, 2006 12:03 PM by loufranco
Yesterday, I started looking at WPF, WinFX, XAML, etc. I started with Chris Sells and Ian Griffiths: Programming Windows Presentation Foundation , but that book was published in September, so it's way out of date. It's a pretty decent read anyway, and Read More...
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