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Generics, Interfaces, Providers and You - Part 4: Building the Classes

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:57:30 GMT

The 4th and final part in a series about using generic interfaces in a provider model.

Generics, Interfaces, Providers and You - Part 3:IProviderCollection

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:56:19 GMT

Generics, Interfaces, Providers and You - Part 3:IProviderCollection & IProviderRepository... Part 3 in a series about using generic interfaces in a provider model.

Generics, Interfaces, Providers and You - Part 2:IDataObject

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:24:43 GMT

Part 2 in a series about using generic interfaces with the provider model.

Generics, Interfaces, Providers and You - Part 1:Getting Started

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:40:48 GMT

An article about using generics and interfaces with the provider model

Building a WPF Application: Part 1

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:56:39 GMT

The first in a series on building a FriendFeed client in WPF using TDD, MVP, DI, etc.

WPF multipage reports - Part IV - Pagination

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:16:11 GMT

This is the final part of WPF multipage report post series. The focus is on a report pagination and a flow document traversal.

Enabling 3D Transitions in WPF

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:48:35 GMT

Implementing 3D transitions between content in WPF in an easy and reusable way using DataTemplates, entirely in Xaml without the need to write C#.

XAML Templates Resource

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:10:56 GMT

Nice site with lots of free and not-so-free XAML templates and styles.

Protecting my intellectual property/XAML

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:19:50 GMT

How to use Lutz Roeder's Reflector to view a applications BAML/XAML and how to protect these files

WPF Farm: A Simple WPF Program

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:10:59 GMT

It can be helpful to start from the beginning when working with new technologies. This post explains how to create a minimal WPF application that produces a single window with a gradient in it, as shown in Figure 1. The point of this exercise is to build the app from scratch, choosing File | New Project | Empty Project rather than File | New Project | WPF Application. The benefit of this exercise is to simply see what ingredients go into the production of a minimal WPF program.

Learning WPF - Factories, Interfaces, Delegates and Lambdas

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:51:59 GMT

Another BabySmash refactoring post by Scott Hanselman. This time he refactors his "Yucky Random Factory".

Learning WPF with BabySmash - Another set of eyes

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:47:06 GMT

Scott Hanselman's next post on learning WPF. He writes about refactoring his "figures" library with help from Jason (check out the link to Jason's blog in the post).

Learning WPF with BabySmash - Keeping it DRY with XAML Styles

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:21:47 GMT

Scott's next post about Learning WPF, refactoring to use XAML Styles.

Learning WPF with BabySmash - Speech Synthesis

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:15:47 GMT

Scott Hanselman does another review of code changes to his BabySmash app.

Learning WPF with BabySmash - Configuration with DataBinding

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:38:17 GMT

Scott Hanselman goes over some changes to his BabySmash application. Make sure to check out the first post.

My WPF Build Environment

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:16:04 GMT

A article on how I setup my build environment for easy WPF application development

The future of .NET, Visual Studio and more

Mon, 26 May 2008 17:31:04 GMT

The career pages of Microsoft give hints what the future holds for us developers. This post picks out the interesting little details about future versions of Visual Studio, .NET Framework, SharePoint, SQL Server etc and analyzes a bit what they could mean.

WPF multipage reports - Part I

Mon, 26 May 2008 19:01:10 GMT

Shows how to build multipage reports in WPF using flow documents , custom paginators and simple data engine.This part is dedicated to the problem description and high level implementation design.

Silverlight 2.0 almost WPF

Sat, 24 May 2008 20:03:11 GMT

Silverlight 2.0 Beta is available now. So what's new in this version compared to Silverlight 1.0/1.1? In easy words: It's (almost) as powerful as WPF. This article will help you getting started with Silverlight 2.0 and VS 2008. We will explain the installation of the Silverlight Tools for VS 2008 and create a little Silverlight project using new Layout-functionalities and controls.

How to handle Themes in wpf

Fri, 23 May 2008 00:16:02 GMT

This article explain how to load a theme at runtime and apply it to wpf controls. This permits to personlize the interface even after the application is deployed.

Exam 70-502 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Windows Presentation Foundati

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:39:51 GMT

Study links for Exam 70-502 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Windows Presentation Foundation

WPF Control Templates

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:42:14 GMT

FINALLY! I've been looking for this article. Shows how to skin a button, but the xaml can be moved from the stackpanel resource to your app resource or to a theme resource dictionary. I finally get it! Yay!

Why WPF Rocks (Custom Layout Panel showcase)

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:16:08 GMT

This article discuss why WPF Layout model is great... The attached code of some of the best layout panels available on the net is also included (ie. FishEyePanel, FanPanel, TimelinePanel, AnimatingStackPanel, etc)!

Visual LINQ Query Builder - VS 2008 Add-In

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:31:02 GMT

Visual Linq Query Builder helps you create Linq to SQL queries for your programs

Getting Started with WPF

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:13:25 GMT

Strategy and links to get started with WPF as quickly as possible without drowning in the massive amount of content available.