05.27.07
Posted in Job Tracker at 7:51 pm by Cal
May 27, 2007
Slipped a couple of days this week as I’m down in Santiago Chile at the moment.? On Tuesday I’m meeting with some Microsoft clients regarding WPF.?
My flight stopped in Iquique on the way down from La Paz (Bolivia).? Since everyone had to deplane, I managed to take a few photos of the surrounding area.? A friend commented that these photos make the Mojave Desert look like a rain forest.? Some parts of the Atacama Desert haven’t had any rain in thousands of years.? Others get rain approximately every 6 - 7 years and then bloom for a couple of months.? But from where I stood you couldn’t see a blade of grass in any direction.?
Anyway, here are this week’s figures from Dice for progress in job postings for C# and WPF:
WPF All of Dice: 83
Silicon Valley: 4
Blend All of Dice: 1
Silicon Valley: 0
C# All of Dice: 7431
Silicon Valley: 238
All figures down just slightly from a week ago.?
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05.18.07
Posted in Job Tracker at 10:32 am by Cal
May 18, 2007
Here are this week’s figures from Dice for progress in job postings for C# and WPF:
WPF All of Dice: 88
Silicon Valley: 4
Blend All of Dice: 1
Silicon Valley: 0
C# All of Dice: 7461
Silicon Valley: 250
This week shows some modest gains in both C# and WPF overall but flat in Silicon Valley. Also some modest gains this week in WPF on Monster.
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05.13.07
Posted in Job Tracker at 12:29 pm by Cal
I’m a little late this week due to practicing for my Webcasts.? Here are this week’s figures from Dice for progress in job postings for C# and WPF:
WPF All of Dice: 61
Silicon Valley: 2
Blend All of Dice: 1
Silicon Valley: 0
C# All of Dice: 7397
Silicon Valley: 255
C# jobs continue their modest rise overall (up 12% in 5 weeks) but stay flat in Silicon Valley. WPF flat both overall and in Silicon Valley. Interestingly, the first position announced looking for experience with Expression Blend.?
I’ve also been monitoring jobs on Monster and WPF on Monster is up by more than three times (25 to 82) overall in this same 5 week period.? ? Also the first Expression Blend position now listed on Monster (not the same job as on Dice).
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05.08.07
Posted in Presentations at 1:28 pm by Cal
Here is the? schedule of my upcoming MSDN Webcasts:
Friday May 11 1:00 PM WPF Animations
Monday May 14 1:00 PM WPF Data Binding
Wednesday May 16 12:00 PM WPF User Interface Updates
Friday May 18 1:00 PM Creating WPF Greeting Cards
Monday May 21, 1:00 PM Building Calendars Using WPF
You can watch these webcasts live at the times specified or you can download them later to watch them at your convenience.
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Posted in Classes at 12:44 am by Cal
On Saturday,? May? 12 I will be holding another practice session for two of my upcoming MSDN webcasts.? This practice session will be conducted in Room 3401 on the Foothill College campus from 1:00 - 4:00 PM.?
Anyone is welcome regardless of your experience level with C# or WPF.? Most students park in Lots 2? or 3 ? and walk up the hill.? Be sure to check the campus map to identify the location of Room 3401.?
The topics covered will include Data Binding, Building WPF Greeting Cards and Upgrading a Windows Forms Application with a new WPF UI.
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05.05.07
Posted in WPF at 1:11 am by Cal
When you create a WPF project in Visual Studio which includes at least one XAML file, Visual Studio will generate a .cs (or .vb) file to, amongst other things, create a Main() method and call InitializeComponent().? To review the content of these generated files, select Show All Files on the Project menu.? The generated files will be located under the obj node.?
Generated files always contain a warning that it does not make sense to edit them because each time that the project is built, they are re-generated from the other source code (ie. the corresponding XAML file) and any user modifications will simply be overwritten.? If a change is necessary, you must make the change in the XAML file in order for it to be effective.?
If you leave these generated files open in Visual Studio, you will receive one of those annoying popups each time that you modify one of the? source files asking you if you? would like to reload the generated file or keep your current (outdated) version.? ?
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05.03.07
Posted in Classes at 11:59 am by Cal
On Saturday,? May 5 I will be holding a practice session for two of my upcoming MSDN webcasts.? This practice session will be conducted in Room 3401 on the Foothill College campus from 1:00 - 4:00 PM.?
Anyone is welcome regardless of your experience level with C# or WPF.? Most students park in Lots 2? or 3 ? and walk up the hill.? Be sure to check the campus map to identify the location of Room 3401.?
The topics covered will include Animations and Data Binding.
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Posted in Job Tracker at 1:21 am by Cal
Here are this week’s figures from Dice for progress in job postings for C# and WPF:
WPF All of Dice: 62
Silicon Valley: 2
Blend All of Dice: 0
Silicon Valley: 0
C# All of Dice: 7292
Silicon Valley: 251
C# jobs up slightly from last week both overall and in Silicon Valley. WPF down by about 15% overall.?
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