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• How "Cider" Saved the Day

  Or "My New Favorite Feature of the WPF Designer" So I'm giving a quick presentation of my favorite new feature in VS 2008 at the Wisconsin .NET User Group Installfest, and because I hadn't actually prepared for the presentation in advance... Posted Dec 19 2007, 04:18 PM by Brownie Points Filed under: Programming WPF

• Silverlight 2.0 AKA Heaven on Earth

  From Scott Guthrie's announcement : WPF UI Framework : The current Silverlight Alpha release only includes basic controls support and a managed API for UI drawing. The next public Silverlight preview will add support for the higher level features... Posted Nov 29 2007, 09:33 PM by Brownie Points Filed under: Programming WPF

• Blendables

  I haven't posted about this yet in my blog because I assumed everyone involved with WPF development already knew about it. IdentityMine is creating a set of utilities for WPF called Blendables . Basically, the focus of Blendables is to provide additional... Posted Sep 12 2007, 07:18 PM by Brownie Points Filed under: Programming WPF

• Wow...Just Wow

  Not to be topped by the incredible vista desktop in Silverlight , a new software shop has released a set of tools that apparently reproduce a vast number of Winforms controls in Silverlight. It's somewhat hard to explain so just look at this . Note... Posted Jun 23 2007, 08:28 PM by Brownie Points Filed under: Programming WPF

• Acropolis

  If you remember, I spoke a bit about providing a rich designer for Business Analysts to define the flow of an application. It looks like Acropolis will go a long way toward realizing that dream. If you look at Glenn Block's synopsis , you'll see... Posted Jun 11 2007, 01:02 PM by Brownie Points Filed under: Programming WPF

• Improving the Combobox

  If anyone has tried loading a large number of items into a ComboBox...you've probably run into a long pause as the ComboBox renders an Element for each......and.....every....object....in....your....itemssource. You might have even resorted to using... Posted Jun 02 2007, 05:24 PM by Brownie Points Filed under: Programming WPF

• MVC and WPF

  So I am acutely aware that there is some confusion in the world about just what MVC is. I thought the paradigm I have been using for WPF would be considered MVC but after further research, I learned that while it is technically MVC, it is not what will... Posted May 25 2007, 01:56 PM by Brownie Points Filed under: Programming WPF

• Low-Level Graphic Manipulation

  A while ago, I participated in a discussion in the forums about creating a webcam solution in WPF. My suggestion was to use the BitmapSource API to update a bitmap source dependency property with the buffer from a custom directshow filter. The problem... Posted May 22 2007, 06:33 PM by Brownie Points Filed under: Programming WPF

• More Attached Goodness

  Here's the code , read on for the explanation. So hopefully my last series on enabling MultiSelect checkboxes with attached properties reinforced the idea that the WPF team has been trying to bring home: subclassing a control should be used in extreme... Posted May 10 2007, 06:00 PM by Brownie Points Filed under: Programming WPF

• Code Snippet

  So it finally got to the point where I was tired enough of "enhancing" my dependency properties by hand that I felt it was worth the investment to learn how to write code snippets. The "Orcas" preview for VS2005 already comes with... Posted May 07 2007, 11:48 AM by Brownie Points Filed under: Programming WPF