Cider isn't a Random Code Name
I've begun reading Charles Petzold's blog and his post of an old English poem mentioning Avalon made me think back to our choice of the code name "Cider" for the Avalon designer we are producing. Where...
View ArticleIntroduction to the Cider Designer's Architecture
This is the first of a series of posts about the architecture of the Cider designer. Cider isn’t going to be shipping for a long time, so this isn’t information you can immediately put to use....
View ArticleCider's Extensibility Architecture
It's time for my second post on Cider's design time architecture. Last time I introduced the editing context and described how services and context items work. It's now time to talk about how we're...
View ArticleUser Interaction in Cider
The ways users have been able to interact with controls on the designer has steadily been evolving. With ActiveX controls in VB 6, users were simply presented with a rectangular region they could click...
View ArticleWhat, No Design Mode Property?
If you’ve written controls for Windows Forms you may have encountered a property on the control called DesignMode. This property returns false when the control is running in an application and true...
View ArticleThe Design Mode Property Redux
When we were looking at our options for adding a design mode property to WPF, an obvious choice was to add a dependency property to WPF that the designers would use. None of us remotely thought we...
View ArticleNaming Controls in Cider
Since the dawn of time (OK, since Visual Basic 1, but that was a long time ago in computer time) designers have been automatically assigning names to controls. Plop a button on a form and it was given...
View ArticleHelp Cider Name an API, Part I of Many
Jim and Richard are grapling with the naming of the adorner placement APIs in Cider. Here's a link to Jim's blog. Check it out, and let Jim know your favorite name.
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Cider Performance for VS2010
It’s been a long time since this blog has seen any posts about Cider. I haven’t been sleeping. Instead, I’ve been tuning. For the last six months I’ve been heads down focusing on the performance of...
View ArticleHotfix Posted for VS 2010 RC Crashing Issue
The VS 2010 RC has a serious bug that causes crashes when editing text. The VS team has released a patch for it here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB980610. Karl's also posted this on The Cider Blog.
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