Animating items part two

In my previous post , I introduced my thoughts on how animation between positions should be done. Today I will walk you through some of the technical benefits of that approach with a cool animated wrappanel sample. Yes, the silverlight control toolkit...

Posted Nov 26 2008, 03:08 PM by Ruurd Boeke Enterprise development and technobabble

Filed under: Silverlight;Silverlight Toolkit;WPF (Avalon)

Malcolm Gladwell on Outliers

“If it comes easy, you’re not doing it right.” Great advice from Malcom Gladwell in this presentation about the process of creative synthesis that results in genius and creativity. He touches on a point that became a bit of revelation for me when...

Posted Nov 26 2008, 12:08 PM by nerdplusart.com

Filed under: Design, Life

[WPF/Silverlight] Comment choisir entre INotifyPropertyChanged et DependencyProperty ?

Les DependencyProperty et l’interface INotifyPropertyChanged possède la même particularité: il s’agit de 2 mécanismes utilisés pour permettre à votre application de notifier l’interface graphique qu’une propriété a été modifiée. Bien souvent, on peut...

Posted Nov 26 2008, 04:49 AM by Thomas Lebrun

Filed under: .NET, SilverLight, WPF

Processing 1.0 Now Available

If you haven’t heard of Processing (the proper noun) then take a minute to soak up it’s animation-y goodness here or learn about it here or, better yet, download it here. It’s nerd + art + a formal grammar: a simplified, graphics-focused programming...

Posted Nov 25 2008, 10:02 AM by nerdplusart.com

Filed under: uncategorized

One Data Widget Dashboard to Rule Them All

Sprint (yup, Sprint) has built this addictive mosaic of random data visualization widgets, providing must have up-to-the-minute stats like People Stuck in Elevators and the current number of Sticky Notes Being Produced. It’s a fun site that takes...

Posted Nov 25 2008, 08:13 AM by nerdplusart.com

Filed under: Design

MbUnit & VS10

MbUnit 3.0.5 has added support for Visual Studio 10 , as before you can now run MbUnit tests direct from the VS test runner. Don't take my word for it though, check out this video from Karen Liu (lead PM on the C# and VB.NET IDEs). If you are playing...

Posted Nov 23 2008, 05:06 PM by Andrew Stopford's Weblog

Filed under: .NET, MbUnit

Efficiently animating items on movement

In my previous post , we talked about one approach to visualize the change of content. So, we had a control with the content ‘Ruurd’ and when we changed the content to ‘RJ’, we could very easily setup a fade out for ‘Ruurd’ and a fade in for ‘RJ’. Or...

Posted Nov 22 2008, 07:58 PM by Ruurd Boeke Enterprise development and technobabble

Filed under: Silverlight;Silverlight Toolkit;WPF (Avalon)

HP TouchSmart software update: Touch Optimizer

Lots of people find that once they’re outside the touch optimized environment that the HP TouchSmart software provides, things in Vista are not all that easy to use with touch. This is something we addressed with what we called a “Touch Optimizer”...

Posted Nov 21 2008, 01:06 AM by GeekTieGuy

Filed under: HP TouchSmart, Software, Vista

Introducing TransitionContentControl

This post will show you how to write a very simple contentControl, that allows you to transition your old content with your new content. It is a little prototype I put together after wanting to ‘spice up’ another control I was working on! Show me! What...

Posted Nov 19 2008, 07:40 PM by Ruurd Boeke Enterprise development and technobabble

Filed under: Silverlight;Silverlight Toolkit;WPF (Avalon)

How to P/Invoke VarArgs (variable arguments) in C#? ... or hidden junk in CLR

Recently I wrote a cheat sheet for pinvoking in .NET . Shortly after I got a question in comments about how to deal with variable arguments, when it's more, then one parameter. Also what to do if those arguments are heterogeneous? Let's say, that...

Posted Nov 19 2008, 06:44 AM by Just code - Tamir Khason : WPF

Filed under: .NET 3.5, C#, DEV, Interop, Microsoft, source, tips and tricks, Tutorial, Work process, WPF

Transitioning the content in an expander – part Two

In my previous post , I showed an approach to getting the expander to ‘reveal’ its content. Although it worked well, it did so by programmatically creating a storyboard and targeting the height/width. That did not sit well with me, and in this post I...

Posted Nov 17 2008, 02:42 PM by Ruurd Boeke Enterprise development and technobabble

Filed under: Silverlight;Silverlight Toolkit

A better webforms?

Last week Phil wrote about the concerns of webform developers that Microsoft was leaving webforms behind in favour of the MVC framework . As Phil writes that is clearly not the case and webforms is enjoying a lot of technology cross over from the MVC...

Posted Nov 17 2008, 08:30 AM by Andrew Stopford's Weblog

Filed under: .NET

[WPF/Silverlight] Blacklight, une suite de contrôles pour WPF/Silverlight !

Si vous êtes toujours en recherche constante de contrôles pour vos applications WPF et/ou Silverlight, alors jetez donc un oeil au projet Blacklight Ce projet, coordonné par Martin Grayson (User Experience Developer), a été annoncé suite à la PDC (P....

Posted Nov 17 2008, 05:47 AM by Thomas Lebrun

Filed under: .NET, SilverLight, WPF

Silverlight 3 in 2010 with 3D and hardware acceleration

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/16/update-on-silverlight-2-and-a-glimpse-of-silverlight-3.aspx Conveniently announced before Adobe MAX tomorrow Read More...

Posted Nov 17 2008, 04:46 AM by designerslove.net

Filed under: uncategorized

WIC metadata in .NET: Getting around "Property cannot be found" / System.ArgumentException /"Exception from HRESULT: 0×88982F40"

Here’s a bit of an obscure error message I’ve run into while working with WIC (Windows Imaging Component) on .NET/WPF, trying to write XMP metadata into an image: So far...

Posted Nov 16 2008, 11:39 PM by GeekTieGuy

Filed under: Software development, WPF

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Animating items part two

Malcolm Gladwell on Outliers

[WPF/Silverlight] Comment choisir entre INotifyPropertyChanged et DependencyProperty ?

Processing 1.0 Now Available

One Data Widget Dashboard to Rule Them All

MbUnit & VS10

Efficiently animating items on movement

HP TouchSmart software update: Touch Optimizer

Introducing TransitionContentControl

How to P/Invoke VarArgs (variable arguments) in C#? ... or hidden junk in CLR

Transitioning the content in an expander – part Two

A better webforms?

[WPF/Silverlight] Blacklight, une suite de contrôles pour WPF/Silverlight !

Silverlight 3 in 2010 with 3D and hardware acceleration

WIC metadata in .NET: Getting around "Property cannot be found" / System.ArgumentException /"Exception from HRESULT: 0×88982F40"

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