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From the Official Press Release:

Nukeation Studios, a leader in Windows Presentation Foundation™ (WPF) and User Experience (UX) solutions has released reuxables, a range of designer themes for Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008 and Microsoft Expression Blend™.

Reuxables themes are aimed at the fresh new market of WPF applications, and allow software developers to easily implement a new look for their applications with lots of features:

The reuxables library consists of 6 fully customizable themes, each with their own unique variations that result in a total of 48 different styles.
The themes are designed by some of the top artists in the UX design industry.
Reuxables themes provide a consistent look regardless of the operating system, and therefore provide the same look on both Windows Vista™ and Windows® XP.
Reuxables are completely compatible with both .NET Framework 3.0 and 3.5.
All reuxables themes are provided in both Static and Animated versions, both made from native XAML vector objects.
Implementing reuxables is effortless as they automatically theme the entire application as soon as the theme file is added to the project.
Reuxables themes are fully compatible with both Microsoft Expression Blend™ 1.0/1.1 and Visual Studio® 2008.

System requirements include Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 or 3.5 for runtime, and Microsoft Expression Blend 1.0/1.1 or Visual Studio 2008 for development. Individual reuxables themes are available between $19 to $99, with an additional complete collection pack for $299.

A complete demonstration of all themes is available at: http://www.reuxables.com

1/14/2008 3:33:28 PM (India Standard Time, UTC+05:30)

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Monday, July 23, 2007

0.9 Beta released

We are proud to release 0.9 Beta of WPF Transition Framework or WTF.

WTF is a set of simple controls which help you in providing cool animation transitions to your WPF applications and all this can be done without having to write complex code to create timelines.

As mentioned in Dax's blog using WTF is as simple as:

<WTFX:WTF Duration="250" Transition="BlurOut" Quality="Better">

</WTFX:WTF>

This code will add "BlurOut" Transition with Quality set to "Better". It you like to change the animation to be more faster you can simply change the Quality to "Faster", its that simple.

The 0.9 Beta version of WTF can be downloaded at wtf.nukeation.com. A sample application is also provided in the download showing the use of WTF. Microsoft Expression Blend 1.0 or later, and Visual Studio 2008 Beta 1 or later will be required to use WTF.

You can checkout the wishlist of features which we intend to add before the final release. For queries please feel free to contact us.

7/23/2007 1:10:27 PM (India Standard Time, UTC+05:30)

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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

WPF Vs Apollo/Flex

I have observed that in this IT field many people like to criticise Microsoft. People hate Microsoft, as if its their hobby. They will use Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office Suite and most the the Microsoft products but then also keep criticizing it.

Lets look back at history. Windows has become a standard and majority of people use it. one myth that is common among people is that "Apple OS is good for designers". I do not know whats the reason behind this myth but I find it really wierd when Apple is considered good for designers. Windows platform has much more tools than any other platform for designers. With emerging technologies like WPF Windows is the best platform for designing and development.

Linux desktop have copied each and every feature of Windows and the open source community keep on copying Microsoft Office Suite in the name of Open Office. Open Office is such a wierd product that most of the time you will use it hoping that it doesn't crash. I am now wondering how open source community will copy Office 2007. But I am sure there are many copy cats who can easily do it.

Now a days people are creating hype about Apollo and Flex. When I had a look at what these two products are, I found that Apollo and Flex is just the replica of .NET Framework. They are talking so loud about Flash and Flex. Guys Flash is just an animation software which was made with the intention of being a preloader. It cannot take place of programming Language. Apollo people are giving counts of Apollo runtime downloads. Dot NET Framework is downloaded four times more than their Apollo runtime.

WPF technology and .NET Framework 3.0 brings in the years of experience of Microsoft in programming field. WPF is really a revolution. The combination of WPF/Expression Suite with the programming capabilities of Visual Studio makes it the best Programming Suite ever available.

One day I was just trying to open a file in Flash, would you believe Actionscript is such a wierd language that simple task like writing/reading file looks almost difficult, infact I don't count any of the Adobe's new product as programming language products, they are only desperate ways of competing with Microsoft.

Let this year of 2007 come to an end then we will see where this Apollo and Flex stand :D

I would like to apologize for my comments. Since I am passionate about some technology doesn't mean I should have written what I have.

I know I have hurt a lot of people and I sincerely apologize for it.

I made a mistake and I wish that I wasn't sober while writing that. I will do my best to learn from it.

4/11/2007 2:28:03 PM (India Standard Time, UTC+05:30)

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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Microsoft® .NET™ Framework 3.0

In the pre-release version .NET Framework 3.0 was called WinFX. It is the new managed-code programming model for windows. It combines the power of .NET Framework 2.0 with new technologies for building applications that have a better user experience, seamless communication across technology boundaries and support for a wide range of business processes.

It is a integral part of Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn" operating systems, it is also available for Windows Xp in the Service Pack2 and in Service Pack1 of Windows Server 2003.

The .NET Framework 3.0 adds new technologies to the .NET Framework 2.0 which makes the .NET Framework 3.0 a superset of the .NET Framework 2.0. This new version of the .NET Framework is designed to provide backward compatiblity with the previous version.

.NET Framework 3.0 consists of these major components:

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) formerly codenamed "Avalon" - It is a new user interface subsystem and API based on XML and vector graphics, which uses 3D graphics hardware and Direct3D technologies.

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) formerly codenamed "Indigo" - It is a service-oriented messaging system which allows programs to interoperate locally or remotely similar to web services.

Windows WorkFlow Foundation (WF) - It allows for building of task automation and integrated transactions using workflows.

Windows CardSpace formerly codenamed "InfoCard" - It is a software component which securely stores a person's digital identities and provides a unified interface for choosing the identity for a particular transaction for eg. logging in to a website.

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

Installing and Detecting .NET Framework 3.0

To install .NET Framework 3.0, you must have one of the following operating systems installed :

- Microsoft Windows Xp Home or Xp Home Professional with Service Pack 2 or later.

- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family with Service Pack 1 or later.

Minimum hardware requirement to install .NET Framework 3.0 is Pentium 400 MHz with 96 MB RAM but recommended is Pentium 1 GHz or higher with 256 MB RAM.

To check if .NET Framework 3.0 is installed you can look for this specific registry key in the Registry

For .NET Framework 3.0

"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v3.0\Setup" the DWORD value of this key would be "1".

Similarly to check if version 2 is installed or not you can check for following registry entry
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v2.0.50727" the DWORD value of this also would be "1".

You can Click Here for detecting .NET Framework 3.0 on your system using internet explorer.

You can click here to download .NET Framework 3.0 from MSDN.

3/20/2007 2:02:28 PM (India Standard Time, UTC+05:30)

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