DotNetKicks.com - Stories tagged with WPF

Skin a WPF interface

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:13:22 GMT

An old post on how to skin a wpf interface.

PropertyGrid for WPF is almost ready

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:09:43 GMT

Actipro reviews a couple innovative new features for their upcoming PropertyGrid for WPF control, due in mid-September.

Learning PRISM - 05/09/2008

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:31:45 GMT

A article about some of the basic building block making up PRISM. The first article covers unity... what is it, where is it used, ect.

Use of XAML in Windows Presentation

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:03:13 GMT

In this article we will learn how we can use attributes of control and properties of control in designing our window with XAML.

Demos - ClickOnce deployment

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:05:40 GMT

Here are ClickOnce deployments for some WPF demos and apps I've done...

YouCube (3D WPF web browser)

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:46:59 GMT

As you know, .NET 3.5 SP1 includes a WebBrowser control. The current implementation is just a wrapper around the MSHTML ActiveX control, which unfortunately prevents you from doing crazy things to it through WPF. The ActiveX control itself can be queried for the IViewObject interface and have its Draw method called. The WPF WebBrowser doesn't expose this directly, but fortunately the Windows Forms WebBrowser does (alternatively you could host MSHTML directly)...

Writing Your First Procedural application in Windows Vista

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:59:35 GMT

This article gives a background to build procedural application for Windows Vista. We build a simple application that gives you a good understanding of how to go about writing a procedural application.

Lawson's Smart Office: WPF Eyecandy heaven

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:54:07 GMT

WPF at everything else: "who's your daddy?". Be check the video interview to see this baby LIVE

Programming ListBox Control in XAML and WPF

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:27:37 GMT

This 20 pages tutorial shows you how to create and use a ListBox control in WPF and XAML. The tutorial also covers styling and formatting, add images, checkboxes, and data binding in a ListBox contrtol.

Enhance the look of Windows Controls using Opacity Masks in Avalon

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:12:04 GMT

An opacity mask is like a layer having different degrees of transparency, which can be applied to any Windows control object or even panels. Depending on the opacity/transparency settings of the mask, the background of the control will also acquire the same properties.

BulletDecorator in XAML

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:31:13 GMT

This article shows how to have different types of Bullet objects.

WPF Application for Importing ESRI Shapefiles

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:44:17 GMT

A standalone application for reading ESRI shapefiles and displaying them on a WPF Canvas.

XAML FAQ

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:08:50 GMT

This article answers XAML related most frequently asked questions.

XAML Tools and Editors

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:07:25 GMT

In this article, I talk about some companies that have already developed or developing XAML tools for developers.

Dynamic and static Rectangle in WPF

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:45:22 GMT

This article shows how to create dynamic and static rectangle in WPF and XAML with various drawing effects.

A glance at .NET Framework 3.0

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:07:45 GMT

What is new in .NET Framework 3.0.? How it is different from all previous version of .NET.?

Improve CollectionView Sorting Performance in WPF

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:24:46 GMT

A simple technique to minimize the number of refreshes to a collection view by using the DeferRefresh method.

WPF in LOB

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:16:18 GMT

A link to 2 videos of LOB applications developed using WPF!!!

Windows Presentation FAQs

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:17:44 GMT

Windows Presentation Foundation is the library for building presentation (user-interfaces) applications in Windows Vista programming model. This article answers most frequently asked questions related to WPF.

Changing the default Clock Skew in WCF

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:44:27 GMT

It is possible that if you use a WCF binding that has a security binding element, you may encounter the the following exception:

The New Iteration when working with WPF

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:55:01 GMT

After one month of no posts, mainly because I was on a holiday and have become a dad for the second time, I thought it is time to write some posts again. In my vacation I've found a really cool article (actually it is a whitepaper) that is calles 'The New Iteration': How XAML transforms the collaboration between Designer and Developers in Windows Presentation Foundation. It is an extremely important whitepaper for discisionmakers, it'll give you an overview of what XAML is, how the whole workflow process and roles work so designers and developers can work together and make up a far more efficient workflow. This line I especially liked, cause I've seen it far to many times: 'There is no sitting over the shoulder of the developer explaining the vision and making sure she is re-creating it in the code.' Oh yeah, also really inportant is the following: 'It is worth noting that, for both the designer and developer, there is an upfront cost of learning the tools and the platform. Without this investment, much of the efficiencies to be gained in the workflow will be lost.'

Working with Brushes in XAML

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:50:02 GMT

Brushes are used to fill drawing objects such as a rectangle, ellipse, and path. The XAML and WPF model has significant improvements over the previous GDI and GDI+ drawing model. This article covers basics of drawing and various brush types and how to use them in XAML.

The WPF ah-ha Moment

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:31:04 GMT

In nearly every bit of WPF training material or weblog there is some reference to the "ah-ha" moment. The point at which all the new concepts you've been learning gel into a cohesive unit. For me, that moment was one or two months after I started developing WPF in earnest (by which I mean for users other than myself). The task was to display two different indicators of a business metric, a green up arrow and a red down arrow.

Data Binding in WPF Controls

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:08:13 GMT

This article shows how to add data binding support among controls in WPF.

WPF TreeView Tutorial

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:05:22 GMT

This tutorial shows you how to create and use a TreeView control available in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and XAML.