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How Do I: Use the Observer Pattern

In this video Pat Tormey shows how to use the Observer Pattern. The Observer Pattern creates a subject that keeps accepts Observers which SubScribe and UnSubscribe to the Subject’s...

How Do I: Use the Observer Pattern

In this video Pat Tormey shows how to use the Observer Pattern. The Observer Pattern creates a subject that keeps accepts Observers which SubScribe and UnSubscribe to the Subject’s...

Setting Up Visual Studio for WPF and Silverlight Development

This important video will enable you to be successful in discovering the toolset and setting up Visual Studio 2010 for WPF & Silverlight development. Additionally, this video covers...

Create First Silverlight Application

New to Silverlight? This walk though will enable you to have a successful first time experience with the Silverlight Designer and creating your first Silverlight application. In addition...

Lab: What’s Coming in WPF: Datagrid, Ribbon, and VSM

The next version of Windows Presentation Foundation will offer a whole new set of controls for you to utilize in building a state of the art desktop application. In this lab we will...

Lab: Build Your Own HLSL Shader Effect Lab

Create a simple, single input HLSL shader Effect and utilize it in WPF application. Then use Parameters and C# Dependency Properties to animate it.

RecipeBox: Expression Blend Hands On Lab

RecipeBox is an application written in C# which loads a set of recipes from an XML file and displays them using the Windows Presentation Foundation. WPF controls can be given customized...

WinForm Fade Effect

Using threading and WinForms to create a smooth fading effect.

21 Important FAQ questions for WPF and SilverLight

This article talks about 21 important FAQ from the perspective of WPF and Silverlight. Both of these technologies are connected to a certain extent. This article not only explains the...

VS2010 help for the WPFer

4 enhancements in VS2010 to help the WPF developer

WPF Toolkit DataGrid, Part I - Introduction

This article is part of a series in which I will go through some key achievements when using WPF Toolkit DataGrid on a project I am working on. In this first article we will go through...