March 2010 - Posts
Dependency Property in XAML 1. WPF introduces a new type of property called Dependency Property. 2. This Property is backed by WPF property system. 3. It is used for animation; enable styling, automatic data binding and more
In this article we will see how to use Media Element in WPF and we will explore some of the basic functionalities such as Play, Pause, Stop, Back and Forward.
In this article you will find most of the interesting things with Border and Brush elements.
Do you know that you can easily customize the Visual Studio 2010 start page? Yes, this is true. This uses a XAML page which you can modify easily if you have a knowledge in XAML. Redesign your page with your brand & look, impress your users (mainly your team) with the new look.
Initially when I looked the WPF Toolbox I couldn’t locate the GridView. So I started looking for some equivalents. The closest to what I need was the ListBox. So I had decided to use it for my Media Player. After some point of time I have searched for the WPF DataGrid . I have found the Tool Kit from the CodePlex. Ok now if we need a DataGrid it is not shipped with framework. So we need to download from CodePlex. I have downloaded the binaries. It is a MSI package. So I have installed it. It will not be available in the tool box right after installation, you have to choose the installed component to be listed in the toolbox
WPF 4.0 comes with certain cool features like changing Selection Brush for text selection, Changing color of Caret etc. I am going to discuss those in this article.
A simple trade off between selecting WPF and Silverlight after understanding history of system vs thin application development on the Microsoft platform.
Converter and ConverterParameter comes very handy while working with WPF Data Binding. You can manipulate the data bound to a value using IValueConverter. The article demonstrates how you can use it in your solution with a sample application.
In this article I will describe about some new features of Visual Studio 2010 which I explored till now. These features are really very useful in terms of productive development. This article is mainly targeted for beginners of Visual Studio 2010 but everybody can get benefit on the same.
In my last article Windows 7 Multitouch Application Development (Part - I), I described about how to handle multitouch image manipulation in Windows 7 which gives a very basic idea on the multitouch development. That code uses multitouch manipulation for the entire screen. If there are multiple images in the screen this will raise event for all.
Treeview will work if the dataset given is the Relational Database with proper relationships added. And give a name that describes the relationships well. Add a TextBlock for displaying the header table information. In this article we refer categories as the Header. Remember to provide a unique Key for the object.
We all get clobbered at least once by memory leaks in our shiny new applications. One of the main causes of this is when objects that are expected to be garbage collected are not because we have not (or are unable) to unsubscribe them from the event handlers of longer living (static) objects. The de-facto solution is to implement Microsoft’s ‘WeakEventManager’, but it takes a lot of coding, and adds another layer of complexity to your applications. Wouldn’t it be great to do something a bit easier.......
In this article we will see how you can develop a Weather gadget for Windows 7 which uses Yahoo Weather API for fetching Weather data. The application will also have some of the latest exciting features of Windows 7 like Thumbnail Toolbar and Progress bar.
PlantUML Editor, built using WPF and .NET 3.5, is an IDE for drawing UML diagram using the amazing PlantUML tool. If you have used PlantUML before, you know you can code UML diagrams super fast without struggling with a designer environment. You can *write* UML diagrams in plain English, following a simple syntax and get diagrams generated on-the-fly.
Windows 7 came up with lots of goodies including better resource management, better performance, jumplist management, multitouch functionality & many more. Here I will discuss on developing a simple multitouch application using .Net 3.5 SP1.
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