New Service Pack - SP3 is now available for Windows XP. You can download it from here. Also note that you can also install SP3 from Windows Update.
If you are one of those who have already been working with IE 8 Beta, then you will need to uninstall it before installing SP3. Check more details on SP3's behavior with various IE versions here.
In Future, A Disconnected device would be strange, would be an alien.
Here’s a presentation which throws some insight into the future web trends.http://www.slideshare.net/matthewbuckland/future-web-trends?src=related_normal&rel=193809
The Presentation mainly focuses on Connectivity, collaboration and discrete devices of today that would be transformed into intelligent smart connected devices in future.
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Much of the focus of web accessibility has been on the responsibilities of the web developer or web content developer. But accessible web content gets consumed through a series of interconnected technologies. And for comprehensive accessibility, all these interconnected component technologies must work in tandem and must all support accessibility.
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When using object instances in XAML, there are two ways to use them. One is to directly create them as resources, assign and key and use where ever required and other is to embed them inside of ObjectDataProvider and then use.
I have worked with both ways and was curious to know the differences between the two and benefit of using one approach over another. I can across this old blog by Beatriz that explain this very well. Along same lines, here is some discussion on XmlDataProvider as well.
These days IT companies all over the world, Microsoft included, are putting in a lot of efforts to ensure that their products conform to necessary Accessibility standards. This blog article aims to touch upon the context and the business case for IT companies to be educated about Accessibility.
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Starting this week, I will be addressing the area of Web Accessibility - organized in four separate blog entries. This week we will look at the big picture, the meaning of Web Accessibility and its relevance for promoting Equal Opportunity.
In the weeks to come, we will look at follow-up topics like the legal framework that dictates the implementation of Web Accessibility (Overview), the interdependent systems and components of Web Accessibility and harmful myths about Web Accessibility.
I have been playing around with WPF for a while and have been blogging about some of the technical aspects on it. However today I will like to touch upon another important aspect of WPF and that is designer-developer connect.
Having worked on Windows Programming using C++, MFC etc for a decade and working with the various controls, it is a real pleasure to see the capabilities now available to WPF developers. It is true to a large extent that with WPF and XAML and the tools like Expression Blend, designers and developers can work lot more closely than ever before. The working closely is more towards the ability for designers to style the UI for the WPF application and the developers to write the code for it.
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There are enough online sources that talk about how to buid and use custom Converters in WPF and also how to pass parameters to these converters. However for some reason, all these examples tend to either use a single integer or a single word string. So recently when I had a need for passing a sentence as parameter, I was confused.
Fortunately the simple trick of using single quotes inside of double quotes to provide strings worked in this case as well. Following are two ways you can pass a string that has multiple words to a converter.
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