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

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 […]

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BlendSense: XAML Intellisense for Expression Blend v2.1.1760.0

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, […]

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