Phillip Trelford's blog articles

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on 2/25/2012 4:53 AM
It’s just before lunch and nearly 4 hours into the 8 hour game writing competition and we have about 200 lines of F# and some sprites on the screen. Keys: Z=left, X=right, Q=up, A=down, Space=shoot As you can see we've gone for a bit of a retro look! And this is what we submitted: Watch the video: Source code: https://bitbucket.org/ptrelford/flinteastwood
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on 2/22/2012 10:47 AM
Less than a month to go now until the first FP event of this year – the Functional Programming eXchange at Skills Matter in London on March 16th. Robert Pickering has put together another great line up including on the F# side Tomas Petricek on F# 3.0’s Type Providers and Loic Denuziere on F# in large scale web apps. There’s also a good number of talks from members of the Clojure, Scala and Haskell communities. Rob lists plenty of reasons to come to Functional Programming eXchange 2012, on his blog. Th[...]
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on 2/12/2012 12:42 PM
Does your application have long context menus that get clipped inside small windows? First ask yourself is this the right user interface. If so then one solution is to add a vertical scroll bar automagically to the context menu. IntelliSense in Visual Studio uses a maximum size constant for the context menu to cope with the inordinate number of members on many classes (over 150 members on a Button): Another option, when screen space is at a premium and windows are small, is to peg the maximum size o[...]
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on 2/3/2012 5:56 PM
Silverlight has become increasingly popular for applications that run both in-browser and on the desktop like Sky’s Go. One of the key new features in Silverlight 5 is multiple window support for desktop applications (often referred to as Out-of-Browser (OOB) applications). Why Multiple Windows? Multiple windows are common in quite a few applications: graphics packages like the GIMP video production software like Sony Vegas music editing software like CakeWalk IDEs like Visual Studio [...]
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on 1/29/2012 2:34 PM
A ChildWindow in Silverlight is a control that can be displayed over a parent window blocking its interaction. Silverlight 5 introduces multiple window support for Out-of-Browser (OOB) applications with elevated trust. Unfortunately the ChildWindow control is not currently multi-window aware which means, as is, a child window may only appear in the main window. Finding the code With the release of Silverlight 5 the ChildWindow control is part of the main distribution, where previously in Silverlight 4 i[...]
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