“As we mature as developers, finding logic errors and incomplete solutions becomes our way of life. It defines us.”
via Well, Actually – Miguel de Icaza.
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Month: July 2015
Memoirs From the Browser Wars
Inside history of browser genesis: from NCSA, Spyglass Mosaic and a company who becomes Netscape to Microsoft. Memoirs From the Browser Wars.
EarTrumpet
This is a small example of Windows 10 notification icon apps opening a popup à la Windows 10: File-New-Project/EarTrumpet.
By the way, this apps can be useful to manage sound level with a better granularity than standard control.
Segoe MDL2
Windows 10 comes with a new icon set as font: Segoe MDL2 (which stand for Microsoft Design Language 2). It’s a True Type Font available in Windows 10 but I don’t know if we can redistribute it into a Desktop Win32 apps.
Beside accessible in charmap.exe, we can explore this icons here: Segoe MDL2 Assets – Cheatsheet (much bigger and usable tha charmap).
There is also mdl2 helpers as nuget packages for xaml and cs use (Introducing MDL2 Helpers and ScottIsAFool/Mdl2Tool). Instead of using code, you can use typed accessor in cs
MyBusIcon = Mdl2.Bus;or name is xaml:
<TextBlock FontFamily="Segoe MDL2 Assets"Foreground="SkyBlue"Text="{StaticResource Bus}"/>