Getting information from the internet into a chatbot’s output can be very useful at some times. Not only to show continuously changing values, like weather information, but it can potentially also be used for learning, although the latter is obviously a little trickier. Retrieving, or scraping info from the internet can be done remarkably easy [...]
A final pre-release video on how you can call .net functions from within your chatbot. The idea behind this feature is to allow you to extend your chatbot with custom features. This will only be available in the pro version though. Note: the video is best viewed in max resolution and full screen to see [...]
For a while now, I’ve been working fairly intensely with the designer and it’s many structured editors. Long enough for me to get a feeling for them and find a good rhythm in working with them. So I thought it perhaps time to put down my experiences and ideas for future improvements. To tell you [...]
An introduction on creating proper UI virtualization in WPF. It describes a technique to create treeviews in WPF that are able to display any amount of data while maintaining scroll speed and using a minimum of memory.
Note: Deprecated! The thunk to .Net is finally working: So it’s now possible to call static functions that take value types as argument and/or as return type. In this example, I am calling the standard System.IO.File.Copy function to copy a file on my disk. Exceptions are also supported, as you can see from the first [...]
I have been fighting the WPF model all the way during the development of NND. And it is wearing me down. Latest problem: the updated selection box for frame element filters doesn’t want to get focus, making it impossible to use the keyboard. I guess the new release will have to wait until I can [...]