September 14, 2007
My blog just got a face lift!
As you may have noticed, I just moved my blog from Blogger to WordPress. Sorry if you got duplicate copies of old blog posts in your blog reader. If you have trouble with my web site, please let me know – I’ll do my best to fix it right away!
Here are some features of the new blog:
- You can search my site.
- Posts are tagged with categories and subcategories.
- Comments are threaded.
- You can now subscribe to the comments.
- To avoid spamming those who subscribe to comments, a new comment will appear only after I approve it. So don’t panic if your comment doesn’t show up right after you submit it.
And to make your life easier:
- Old links still work, but they will be redirected to the new pages. Please update any links to my blog.
- The RSS feed is the same http://feeds.feedburner.com/BeatrizCosta.
Any feedback about the new blog is appreciated!
Posted by Bea under General | Comments (12)
Welcome to WordPress. I recently made a transition to WordPress myself and found it a relatively painless way to get a lot of functionality.
I look forward to more of your blogs on WPF.
I’d like to see some blogs on the use of XamlReader.Load() sometime, especially from a WebRequest
Hi Randy,
Thanks for your nice words.
Do you read Rob Relyea’s blog? He’s our team’s XAML expert and has an excellent blog! I will pass your request to him.
Thanks,
Bea
Hello Beatriz,
I am one of your biggest fans…. Thanks for posting these cool posts… keep it up…
P.S Are you going to be at the Tech-Ed at barcelona in novemeber?
Regards
Hi Marlon,
I appreciate your encouragement to continue blogging :)
Unfortunately I won’t be going to TechEd Europe this year. I am about to leave to China, where I will stay for the next 5 months – so I will be in China at that time. I am hoping to make a Europe trip next year though.
Thanks for your comment! :)
Bea
Well if there’s anyone whose posts I don’t mind getting twice, it would be yours :) Hmm, doesn’t render too well in IE6 (and, no, I don’t have a choice).
Hi Kent,
:) Well, I will still do my best to not repeat myself from now on, as far as blog readers are concerned.
I tested the site in IE7 and Firefox, but not IE6, so I apologize for that. I will spend some time this evening getting it to work with IE6 (although I have to admit my PHP skills are not awesome).
Thanks a lot for the feedback!
Bea
Hi Bea,
First, some feedback about your site. The dark background makes it hard to read some of the text, especially when the text color is dark also. So that is change I would recommend.
Secondly, can you recommend any training courses that cover databinding? Your content is great, but sometimes being in a classroom with one-on-one help is better (at least for me, anyway).
Oscar
Hi Oscar,
I realize that the links in particular are too dark for the background, making them quite hard to read. I will change that. I appreciate your feedback.
About training, there are probably several companies providing WPF training, but I know of two only:
- Pluralsight – Ian Griffiths delivers these trainings, and I have the deepest respect for his WPF knowledge and training skills.
- IdentityMine – I don’t know who delivers these trainings, but I have a lot of respect for IdentityMine in general. A few kick-ass members of the WPF team have left to work there, so the company has really solid knowledge and experience of WPF.
Also occasionaly we host several of our top partner companies here at Microsoft for WPF events – sometimes we have WPF team members deliver talks, other times WPF members help developers with the apps they’re working on. I always participate in these events, they’re a lot of fun!
If someone reading this post knows of other companies that offer WPF training, please leave a message here. I’m sure this is useful information to all.
Also, if you guys have ideas of other ways that Microsoft can help with these trainings, please leave your suggestion here – I know that our community PM is always looking for new ideas. I personally love teaching WPF, and will participate in any event he organizes!
Thanks,
Bea
Hi Bea,
Longtime reader, first time poster -
I just wanted to say I really, really like the facelift! Much easier for me to read – focusing on the important parts is much easier on the brain!
Patrick
Thanks for posting Patrick :)
I’m really glad you like the new look :)
Bea
How do a get a List of all the topics covered? (tongue in cheek question…;-)
Great blog – just missing that feature – eg someting like this:
September 22, 2007 Are there any tricks that will help me improve TreeView’s performance? – Part III
September 10, 2007 Are there any tricks that will help me improve TreeView’s performance? – Part II
August 31, 2007 Are there any tricks that will help me improve TreeView’s performance? – Part I
May 8, 2007 How can I update an explicit binding within a template?
April 1, 2007 The power of Styles and Templates in WPF
January 11, 2007 How can I have an independent view when my source is ADO.NET?
November 22, 2006 What is the difference between… ?
September 23, 2006 How can I propagate changes across threads?
September 8, 2006 How can I control a color using Sliders?
September 4, 2006 How do I apply more than one filter?
August 6, 2006 How do I filter items from a collection?
July 19, 2006 How do I encode XAML using a Value Converter?
June 27, 2006 How do I display some items differently based on one of their properties?
June 4, 2006 How can I bind an ItemsControl to the values of an enumeration?
May 21, 2006 How can I control whether my Binding is synchronous or asynchronous?
May 7, 2006 How can I change the way a data item is displayed when the user clicks on it?
April 23, 2006 How do I show the Status of a Binding?
April 9, 2006 How can I add my own sorting logic?
April 2, 2006 How do I insert Separator objects in a data bound MenuItem?
March 19, 2006 Why should I use ObjectDataProvider?
March 5, 2006 How do I bind to ADO.NET?
February 25, 2006 How do I implement a data bound ListView?
February 12, 2006 How can I do custom Grouping?
February 4, 2006 How do I display grouped data in a TreeView?
January 28, 2006 How do I sort groups of data items?
January 13, 2006 How do I display items in an ItemsControl using different templates?
December 11, 2005 How do I implement a data bound dialog box?
November 29, 2005 How do I synchronize three ListBoxes displaying three levels of hierarchical data?
November 18, 2005 Master-detail scenario
November 10, 2005 How can I sync selection of two data bound ListBoxes?
October 31, 2005 How do I make a data bound Bar Graph?
October 22, 2005 How do I change the layout of an ItemsControl?
October 15, 2005 What is the difference between SelectedValue and SelectedItem?
October 3, 2005 New feature in September PDC: DisplayMemberPath
September 27, 2005 How do I bind the items of a ComboBox? How do I get a ComboBoxItem from a data bound ComboBox?
September 21, 2005 How can I get a ListBoxItem from a data bound ListBox?
September 11, 2005 What does “{Binding}” mean?
September 7, 2005 How should I decide whether to use DataContext or Source?
Hi John,
That is a good suggestion. I added a Page link to my sidebar called “Archive post by post” that contains a list of all posts. I couldn’t figure out how to add the date before the title of each post though. Maybe someone with more WordPress/PHP experience than me can suggest a way to do that?
Thanks,
Bea