December 2009 - Posts
In this session Pat Tormey demonstrates How To Add a WPF User Control to an existing WinForm and then How To raise the WPF User Control’s events back up to the parent WinForm. This video and sample code uses Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.
Author: Pat Tormey
Using resource files can not only provide more flexibility when changing text displayed in an application, but can also allow for localization. In this video, Todd Miranda demonstrates how to use resource files to localize text in a WPF application.
Author: Todd Miranda
The Windows 7 taskbar has a ton of interesting features you can use to provide information to your users. One of these is Taskbar Progress Reporting. In previous versions of WPF, this functionality was surfaced only through the Windows API Code Pack. However, with WPF 4, the System.Windows.Shell namespace and the TaskbarItemInfo class provides you with another way to integrate your WPF applications into the shell.
Author: Pete Brown
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With the introduction of pixel shaders in WPF, developers now have a new medium to experiment with. In this video, Todd Miranda demonstrates how to create and use custom pixel shaders in WPF.
Author: Todd Miranda
In this session Pat Tormey introduces LINQ with Entity Framework in a Windows Forms application using VS 2010 beta.
Using an Entity Data Access Layer (DAL) to local SQL Express Pat introduces the ability to Filter, Query and Sort using LINQ.
Author: Pat Tormey
Understanding how to work with lighting in 3D is extremely important. After all, without lighting a 3D scene would be pretty dull. In this video, Todd Miranda demonstrates how to work with lighting in a 3D WPF application.
Author: Todd Miranda
In this session Pat Tormey introduces Entity Framework and Windows Forms using VS 2010 beta.
This quick tour show you how to create an Entity Data Access Layer and use it to populate a Datagrid and edit the data.
Author: Pat Tormey
In this segment Pat Tormey demonstrates How To use the Windows 7 Taskbar ProgressBar while staying compatible with previous Windows versions
The ProgressBar allows your application to keep the user notified of changes in state from Errors, warnings, normal or just for an indefinite waiting period.
Author: Pat Tormey
In this session Pat Tormey demonstrates ‘How To’ Use JumpLists in Windows 7 applications.
He includes a quick review of what JumpLists are and a short introduction to the Windows API Code Pack then adds a couple of JumpList items to a WinForms application using VS 2010 Beta 2.
Author: Pat Tormey
In this session Pat Tormey demonstrates ‘How To’ use Overlay Icons in Windows 7 applications using the Windows API Codepack and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. Overlay Icons are graphic additions to the existing application Icon shown on the TaskBar or Windows 7 when an application is running. Programmatically changing the Icon allows the application to update the taskbar for changes in state or as passive alerts for the user.
Author: Pat Tormey
WPF supports both 2D and 3D graphical elements. In this video, Todd Miranda demonstrates the basics of 3D elements in WPF.
Author: Todd Miranda
The ASP.NET Membership Provider is not just for ASP.NET. It can be used to authenticate users in a WPF application as well. In this video, Todd Miranda will demonstrate how to use the ASP.NET Membership provider in a WPF application.
Author: Todd Miranda
In this video, Max Adams will show how to use the ElementHost control in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 to host WPF controls within WinForms applications.
Author: Max Adams