WPF application with DropShadowEffect renders incorrectly on nVidia GeForce drivers 185.85 and greater

Posted by John Rennemeyer in August 1st 2009

For those of you who develop using WPF, I ran into the following issue recently:
I developed MuvUnder Cover: The Album Art Sleuth, a WPF application, and with the latest nVidia drivers it displays erratic rendering of the interface. Graphical elements are missing, are half showing, when you mouseover them they appear and then randomly disappear, [...]

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BlendSense: XAML Intellisense for Expression Blend v2.1.1760.0

Posted by John Rennemeyer in December 18th 2008

Karsten Januszewski has a post (read his post for instructions on installing the addin) about Intellisense for Expresion Blend and upon trying it, it didn’t work. I would get the following error:
“Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.Expression.DesignSurface, Version=2.1.1693.0, Culture=neutral,…”
The issue was caused by the fact that even though I was running SP1, I had [...]

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Beta Testers Needed for MuvUnder Cover: The Album Art Sleuth

Posted by John Rennemeyer in March 29th 2008

MuvEnum is looking for 20 beta testers for its latest product: MuvUnder Cover: The Album Art Sleuth, which is a Windows WPF application for automatically finding and embedding album art into the following file types: APE, ASF, FLAC, M4A, M4P, M4V, MP3, MP4, MPC, MPP, MP+, WMA, WMV, and WV.
Using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), we’ve [...]

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Tags: album art, album art downloader, album artwork, album cover, ape, flac, mp3, mp4, mpc

Silverlight 2.0 will include a WatermarkedTextBox (a.k.a. InfoTextBox)

Posted by John Rennemeyer in February 23rd 2008

Since I’ve been trying to finish my latest project using WPF, Silverlight 2.0 excites me because I will be able to take a lot of stuff that I’ve done and learned and use it in Silverlight 2.0! Scott Guthrie just posted a sneak peak into the latest offerings that will be coming in Beta 1 along with [...]

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Vista - Explorer: Disable Full-Row Selection, Add Tabs

Posted by John Rennemeyer in October 24th 2007

One of the changes from Windows XP to Windows Vista is the difference when selecting/deselecting items in Windows Explorer when using the Detail View. In XP, you can deselect all items by left-clicking any column that is not the name column. I love that it is this way. In Vista, good luck trying to deselect [...]

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