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• BumpTop - Imagining a 3D desktop

  Working with WPF for more than a few months starts to change the way you think about UI.  I’m sure you have experienced it yourself. It influences little things; Why should listbox be filled with a list of strings?  Couldn’t I put... Posted Nov 02 2007, 03:21 PM by WPF Wonderland Filed under: WPF, Examples, 3D, Animation

• reMix Source Code Available Now!

  I mentioned during my presentations in Australia and Singapore that I would post all of the source code to the prototypes that I showed and I have finally done it. I obviously cannot post the source to the two Yahoo! Messenger examples that were shown... Posted Jul 02 2007, 03:37 AM by theWPFblog Filed under: Examples, Conferences, reMix

• Cool XBAP Animation Demo

  Denis Dollfus sent me a link to a cool XBAP demo that uses some custom animation and uses some repulsion algorithms to make all of the little fish avoid the custom shark cursor. There are some sliders that allow you to modify different values in the animation... Posted Jun 28 2007, 10:58 PM by theWPFblog Filed under: Examples

• WPF ImageGarden3D Example with Source

  Here is a little thing that I whipped up on the plane today. It takes a series of photos and positions them randomly in 3D. The camera then automatically moves to them one by one. The camera is always moving so it helps to keep things interesting. This... Posted May 22 2007, 03:34 AM by theWPFblog Filed under: Examples, 3D, Animation

• WPF 3D Physics Poopr Application

  Chris Cavanagh has created some excellent 3D physics examples which utilizes the XNA game framework. I decided to take his code and build a truly innovative WPF application. It’s called Poopr and the concept is fairly simple. You click to make the... Posted May 15 2007, 10:06 PM by theWPFblog Filed under: Examples, 3D, Animation

• Custom WPF Animation Example

  One day I was complaining to Karsten about animating in WPF and he showed me this example which comes in the SDK. It contains a bunch of custom animation classes that all derive from DoubleAnimationBase. The formulas used are very similar to Robert Penner’s... Posted May 10 2007, 06:46 PM by theWPFblog Filed under: Examples, Animation

• Notes from the Mix 07 Keynote (Day 2)

  Read More... Posted May 01 2007, 12:34 PM by theWPFblog Filed under: Examples

• WPF Photo and Video Slideshow Example

  This was a really fun project to build. I shouldn’t say “was” because I still have a long way to go with it. When you launch this ClickOnce application you will be prompted to choose a folder on your hard drive that contains photos and... Posted Apr 25 2007, 04:20 PM by theWPFblog Filed under: Examples, C# Code, Animation

• Choose Folder Dialog in WPF

  I recently had the need for a browse folder dialog where the user can select any folder on their hard drive. There isn’t anything in WPF that provides this functionality. The answer was to add the Windows.Forms namespace and calling the dialog from... Posted Apr 23 2007, 01:51 AM by theWPFblog Filed under: Examples, C# Code, Vista

• Explosive WPF Video Tutorial on Using PNG Sequences

  I just uploaded a new video tutorial at contentpresenter.com that shows how to incorporate PNG sequences into your WPF applications. While WPF allows you to create some impressive visual effects, there are some things that need to be imported as PNGs... Posted Apr 15 2007, 02:15 AM by theWPFblog Filed under: Examples, Tutorials, C# Code, Animation

• WPF Timer Animation Example

  I've gotten a lot of requests from people asking for an example of using a timer in conjunction with value-based animation. If you read through the comments of my last post you will see a really good debate over time-based versus value-based animation... Posted Apr 13 2007, 02:45 PM by theWPFblog Filed under: Examples, Animation