Martin on WPF and .NET

I have create a small Uploader for AnyHub.

I think this service is quite cool, just try it.

More info at Gitorious.

If you don't know about Posterous, it's a ultra-simple blogging platform that let's you post by simply sending an email to post@posterous.com (no sign up needed).

As the tile of this blog is 'Martin on WPF and .NET' I will in the future post other stuff on martinrauscher.posterous.com.

Opera 10 Beta is out, and it's great! Ted Miller was nice enough to give me an early look, and this is what to expect:

Visual Tabs

Do I have to say more?

Not an Opera first, but still great and it is good to see that Opera isn't afraid of using good features they didn't invent.

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... and I'll get a preview today! :)

Come back tomorrow for my review.

From day one I had one problem with Dropbox:
If I use it to save all my personal data then just a small bug in their system or a criminal employee could gain access to all of my Data...

My data isn't this sensitive, but you know, it just feels bad...

But I just found (via http://alternativeto.net/) a new application that will fill this gap: SpiderOak

They say "Engineering Matters" and created a system that has truly zero-knowledge of your data. Just great! (For more info just go to their site...)

Another thing that SpiderOak does better than Dropbox is that you can backup/sync any folder, not just those under your "My Dropbox" folder...
And you can share whole folders.

The only thing that I now use Dropbox for is fast publishing of single files. Just dropping something into your public folder and then right click -> "copy public link" is really nice thing, but I guess it's just a matter of time until SpiderOak has this, too :)

PS: Another reason why I like this company, is because they gave a whole 50GB for free, because I helped them a little bit :)

PPS: This is my first post with Windows Live Writer, let's see if this works...
Edit: Well special characters have problems...

Copy Public Link for SpiderOak: I created something

If you haven't heard about DropBox:
It's an online storage like Box.net BUT with instant synchronization on all your PCs with all OSs!

IT JUST WORKS!^tm

If you are interested: Please refer me!

UPDATE: Please see my new blog post about SpiderOak.

I'm writing a "small" task management software for the team I work for. Obviously I'm using the great features of WPF and the current version of the WpfToolkit:DataGrid

Now, have a look at these two pictures:

The only difference from (1) to (2) is, that i scrolled maybe 5px down...

I have SnapsToDevicePixels activated for the whole application, and it looks like this has some rounding errors sometime... If you didn't see it, I'm using an DropShadowEffect the show the currently selected item, and as I wrote previously This DISABLES SnapsToDevicePixels. But interestingly I can't see a difference in text rendering in the good case...

Do you have any ideas why this happens?

Update: You can find me HERE.

Yes it's sad, I know...

But I've got a good reason! Just have a look at this gorgeous WPF application (The animations are especially sweet!):

You can get Blu here.

I absolutely don't like the standard WPF Popup.

• It is an additional Window - bad.
• Bindings don't work - bad.
  (Especially bad if you wanted to use it for user input.)
• It's not so easy to make it appear nicely - bad.

But here comes to the rescue: The AdornerPopup

As the name suggest, it sits in the AdornerLayer and thus has some nice features... To see it in action, read on...

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Have a look at these pictures:

Sharp Text Without DropShadowEffect

Blurry Text With DropShadowEffect

In the second picture I have applied a DropShadowEffect on the Border element and as you can see, everything got blurry, despite me having set SnapToDevicePixels

I don't really understand why it has to be this way:

1. The effect doesn't really change the Border contents.
2. If SnapToDevicePixels is set to true and it isn't possible to conform to this why using the GPU, I think GPU acceleration should be switched off

The only information I could find about this issue was this (useless) thread.