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June 2007 - Posts

Creating Menus and Status Toolbars

In this installment Pat Tormey will demonstrate some of the ways you can create menus and status toolbars.

Author: Pat Tormey

Build a Standard WPF Application

In this video you will learn how to build a standard WPF application using Microsoft Visual Studio.

Author: Todd Miranda

Posted: Jun 23 2007, 01:08 AM by russnem | with 9 comment(s)
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How Do I Get Started With Acropolis?

This video offers a brief overview of Acropolis features.

Author: David Hill

How Do I Use PartPanes?

The Acropolis PartPane allows you to host the views of child parts within the views of their parent components. In addition, the PartPane provides a chrome, which exposes some of your parts' functionality to the user automatically, and helps to provide a uniform visual experience for nested parts. This presentation demonstrates how to use the PartPane, and introduces some of its features.

Author: David Poll

How Do I Use The Acropolis Designer?

Acropolis allows you to cleanly separate the visual and logical structures of your applications. The Acropolis designer in Visual Studio helps you to modify and work with and modify the logical structure of your application separately from the visual structure, simplifying the task of creating Acropolis applications. This presentation demonstrates how to use the Acropolis designer to compose Acropolis applications.

Author: David Poll

How Do I Use Transitions?

Acropolis provides a set of tools that use WPF to help create a rich visual presentation for client applications. Among the features provided are a wide variety of transitions from one Part's view to another's. This presentation demonstrates how to apply transition effects to your Acropolis applications.

Author: Kathy Kam

Creating Navigation Applications in WPF

There are 2 types of standalone applications in WPF, a standard WPF application which is more like the traditional windows application and a navigation application which is similar in some ways to a web application. A navigation application utilizes a navigation window to move from page to page. This presentation demonstrates how to create a WPF Navigation Application.

Author: Todd Miranda

Posted: Jun 07 2007, 07:53 PM by jaytayl | with 6 comment(s)
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Simple DataBinding in Windows Forms

In this video you will see how to use Simple DataBinding to read values into your control properties as well as synch your edits back to your datasource. Using the simplest example of an object datasource you will see how to make DataBinding work for you.

Author: Patrick Hynds

How Do I: Connect to a Database?

Visual Basic programmers will see how to create a Windows Forms application, connect to an existing database and how to define how data is retrieved and updated using the Data Sources Window and the Dataset Designer in Visual Studio.

By: Beth Massi