August 2008 - Posts
A simple demo of building a "Hello World" application with Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and then deploying it via ClickOnce to a clean Windows XP machine using the .NET Client Profile rather than the full .NET Framework.
You have heard all about the improvements and new features in WPF 3.5 SP1. Now its time to see the new stuff. David Teitlebaum takes us on a tour of graphic applications that take advantage of the new and improved Effects, DirectX Interop, WriteableBitmap and more.
With the rich media capabilities of WPF, it's very easy to incorporate video into a WPF application. In this video, Todd Miranda shows how to do just that.
Author: Todd Miranda
In this two-part video series, Pat Tormey shows how to build and deploy a complete Windows Forms SQL Express Application in less than 30 minutes, with reports!
In "How Do I: Windows Forms, A to Z, Part 1", he showed how to create a MDI form, add an About Box and a Login form, how to configure application properties, and how to wire up application events.
In "How Do I: Windows Forms, A to Z, Part 2", this part, he shows how to add grid controls, how to bind those controls to a data source, how to generate reports, how to digitally sign the application, and, lastly, how to deploy the application using ClickOnce Deployment.
Author: Pat Tormey
In this two-part video series, Pat Tormey shows how to build and deploy a complete Windows Forms SQL Express Application in less than 30 minutes, with reports!
In this part, "How Do I: Windows Forms, A to Z, Part 1", he shows how to create a MDI form, add an About Box and a Login form, how to configure application properties, and how to wire up application events.
In "How Do I: Windows Forms, A to Z, Part 2", he shows how to add grid controls, how to bind those controls to a data source, how to generate reports, how to digitally sign the application, and, lastly, how to deploy the application using ClickOnce Deployment.
Author: Pat Tormey
The WPF VisualBrush is the most versatile and powerful of all WPF brushes. Using a VisualBrush, you can paint areas with almost any WPF graphical object. In this video, Todd Miranda shows how to use the VisualBrush to paint with video.
By: Todd Miranda
Beth Massi shows how to hook up validation code and customize the display of errors on WPF controls using Visual Studio 2008.
By: Beth Massi
Beth Massi shows how to create a data entry form that binds data from a lookup table in a database to create a pick-list of values in a WPF ComboBox using Visual Studio 2008.
By: Beth Massi
Dr. Sneath speaks with Ian Ellison-Taylor and Kevin Gjerstad about new improvements and features in WPF 3.5 Service Pack 1. Topics of the conversation range from Graphics, Deployment, Performance, Application Model and Tools. And while discussing the current state and the future of WPF a few applications are mentioned including Lawson "Mango" and Yahoo Messenger . Not only does this video provide you with a great overview of WPF 3.5 SP1, but it is kicking off WPF Week on Channel 9. Each day this week we’ll be publishing a video focused on one area of WPF to give you a detailed look at what’s new.
Ian-Ellison Taylor is general manager for Windows Presentation Foundation.
Kevin Gjerstad is group program manager for Windows Presentation Foundation.
Channel 9 chats with Jennifer Lee about what's new in the Application Model realm for WPF 3.5 SP1. Topics include the improved cold start, splash screen and a demonstration of HTML and XBAPs using the new WebBrowser control.
Jennifer Lee is a Program Manager for Windows Presentation Foundation’s Application Model at Microsoft.
Troy Martez and Channel 9's Dr. Sneath go on a deep dive into the new client deployment options available in WPF 3.5 SP1. Interesting new features include the Client Profile (something like a "diet .NET Framework") which allows for smaller setup packages and new customizations during the installation process.
Suresh Sreedharan, ISV Architect Evangelist, sits down with Danny Miles and Andrew Novotak, lead developers and designers of this one-of-kind application to talk about their experience with WPF and to demo the application. IGT is a leading global provider of gaming systems and game monitoring systems. sb™ Director is the name for the user interface used to operate the server-based (sb) network gaming system. It is primarily used by casino operators, regulators and executives to monitor and maintain the configuration and performance of server-based slot machines.
Samantha Durante previews the WPF Datagrid CTP.
Samantha Durante is a program manager on the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) for Tree Services/Controls and the Syndicated Client Experiences (SCE) Starter Kit.
XAML browser applications (XBAPs) are now cross browser! See how in .NET 3.5, XBAPs can now run in Firefox, in addition to IE 6 and above! Navigate to a .xbap on the web running in Firefox, and the XBAP just works. Shell-execute or click on a hyperlink to a .xbap, and it will open in Firefox, if that is your default browser.