Articles

Drag, Drop and Move Items from One CheckedListBox to Another using Windows Forms

Suprotim Agarwal — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:13:00 GMT

Suprotim Agarwal shows how to drag-and-drop items from one CheckedListBox to another in Windows Forms.

Tutorial: 2D Game Development in Silverlight

Mike Gold — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:15:00 GMT

This article describes how to create a simple arcade game in Silverlight. The article describes how to implement a game loop, render images and shapes, handling keyboard events, and doing simple collision detection.

Programming Brushes and Pens in WPF

Mahesh Chand — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:19:00 GMT

This article discusses types of brushes found in WPF and how to use them in your applications.

Retrieve a List of Installed Printers on the Network Using WMI, C# and VB.NET

Suprotim Agarwal — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:10:00 GMT

A common requirement is to display a list of printers on the network. In this article, Suprotim Agarwal shows how to do so.

Working with Checkboxes in the WPF TreeView

jytylr — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:49:00 GMT

Josh Smith shows how to create a tree of checkboxes that intelligently update their own check state and are easy to navigate with the keyboard.

Composite Application Guidance for WPF

jytylr — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:49:00 GMT

S. Somasegar introduces the latest edition of Microsoft's "Composite Application Guidance for WPF". Within the package you will find a reference implementation, a composite application library for WPF, Quickstart guides, a Hands-On Lab, and over 300 pages of documentation including UI designer guidance and How-To’s.

Composite Application Guidance, What Is It?

jytylr — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:09:00 GMT

Glenn Block provides a high-level overview of the Microsoft's "Composite Application Guidance for WPF" and the development challenges it addresses.

This topic describes some of the problems you might encounter when building complex WPF client applications, how the Composite Application Guidance helps you to address those problems, and how the Composite Application Guidance compares to alternative approaches.

Common Tasks Using the Windows Forms ComboBox

Suprotim Agarwal — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:44:00 GMT

In this article Suprotim Agarwal shows how to perform common tasks using the Windows Forms ComboBox control.

Cars SmashPack

rudigrobler — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:56:00 GMT

Rudi Grobler shows how to create a SmashPack for BabySmash.

Customize Data Display with Data Binding and WPF

jytylr — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:14:00 GMT

Josh Smith covers a wide range of data binding techniques that real world applications use all the time, from working with hierarchical data sources to input validation. It even has a Virtual Lab, so you can work with the source code while reading the article.

WPF Meets the iPhone

jytylr — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:58:00 GMT

Kevin McNeish shows how to recreate the iPhone interface using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Visual Studio 2008, and Expression Blend.

Using Converters to Aggregate a List in a ListView

jytylr — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:28:00 GMT

Timmy Kokke explains how to use converters to calculate the sum, largest, average, etc., of items in a ListView.

Validation of WPF Business Objects, A Simpler Approach

jytylr — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:41:00 GMT

Sacha Barber explains how to simplify the WPF validation process.

Programming with LINQ to XML for Objects (LINQ to XSD)

jytylr — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:22:00 GMT

LINQ is out and ready for prime time. LINQ to XSD is an extension of the core LINQ technologies and is at present still in alpha. LINQ to XSD builds on LINQ to XML. By including an XML Schema Document, LINQ to XSD will code generate strongly typed wrapper classes, permitting you to read and write the XML document as easily as you would create and use any objects. In this article Paul Kimmel shows you how to program with LINQ.

Creating Fancy Tooltips in WPF

Mahesh Chand — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:24:00 GMT

Each control in WPF has a Tooltip property that can be accessed through XAML or code behind. In this article Mahesh Chand shows how to create a fancy tooltip in XAML and WPF.