WPF TreeView

The treeview control is always a bit difficult, I remember my first contact with Gtk.TreeView and it wasn’t straightforward but the behaviour of WPF Treeview is still weird for me. Basicly if you use a HierarchicalDataTemplate you won’t be able to manage...

WPF is not enough mature

Given the investment that MS is making in their new technology, WPF and its derivates (ie, Silverlight) are gonna be a very popular technology in the future and propably nice technology for the MS environment but so far I find this technology very inmature. Here you...

Interested in software architecture

In the last few years I’ve been interested in software architecture and this tendency is growing everyday. I do think that I want to work as an architect within the next years. Few days ago I listened a really good presentation on SOA from Ron Jacobs that I...

WPF from Desktop to Web

Lets see how to convert a Desktop WPF application in a Web Application. I am using VS 2005 for this. First of all we need to go the the project properties, and click on the “Signing” button in the left side. Mark the checkbox labeled “Sing the...

Some issues with WPF and VS

We are working with Windows Presentation Foundation these days, using Visual Studio 2005 but the technology seems to be too new and the tools have some annoying bugs. The new XAML has some good things and some other scary problems you should be aware of. The goog...

Working in the dark side

This is my first time working with a company that is a Microsoft Certified Partner. It is the first time I am not working with open source technologies but I do think that it is very important to know about both worlds so I am addressing my new job with positiveness...

Let’s try to keep the blog alive

No much to blog on software development or hacking these days. Currently I’ve changed the hacking sessions for the hanging out ones but I’ll come back and I don’t want the blog to die. I am learning a lot of things on software development thanks to...

Tools I have been using

Some people asked me what are the best tools to develop on Mono and .Net, or at least which ones do I use. For those who develop on MS .Net, you must know that the only OS you have is MS Windows. SharpDevelop is an IDE for Windows which is open source and is pretty...

Living and Working in Dublin

Im finally settled in Dublin, Ireland. This has been a really great aventure because I came to Ireland without home nor job. I arrived to a dirt chep hostel in which I met a lot of interesting people from a lot of countries, all of them trying to start a new life....