Thought: Driving Actionable Insight

Why are so many technical decisions made by non-technical people? Because technical people don’t have the patience to read through the information coming out of the vendors
Vendors should provide a technical-people-only portal of their websites, similar in principal to the Simple Wikipedia site. A site which would cut through all of the Enterprise-induced […]

Tip: Readable Markup

In my WPF and XAML Coding Guidelines page (which I’ll be updating soon) I discussed a little rule I follow to keep my markup looking nice. Daniel Crenna has provided a nice VS addin that reformats XAML by lining up the attributes. His post has a nice animation that shows what the tool does. The […]

Thought: DataGrid isn’t a Control, it’s a Lifestyle

(This was inspired by a funny story left by Matt Hamilton)
"Where’s the Data Grid?"
When I talk to customers that are doing Windows Forms and evaluating WPF, this has to be the most common question. Their prayers will now be answered: a data grid will be included in the .NET 3.5 SP1.
Why did it take […]