Snoop, Now even better, thanks to the Community

Once upon a time, Pete Blois at Microsoft created the awesome WPF utility Snoop. Snoop is an indispensable utility for inspecting and debugging WPF applications. It’s also just cool to play with. Snoop is a small toolbar that sits up in the corner of Windows, waiting for WPF applications to show up. When you select one, you can then “snoop” around to see what’s in there. For example, here’s Snoop working on Seesmic. Notice the hover preview you get for items in the tree

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Getting Started with WPF : Hello World in multiple flavors

So you’re brand spanking new to WPF . You have to start somewhere, so how about good old “Hello World”. Tooling First, some tooling. If you are in a situation where you can use Beta or RC products, download Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RC.

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Windows Client Developer Roundup for 2/8/2010

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #10. The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF , Surface, Windows 7, XNA, Windows Forms , and some Silverlight . If you have something interesting you’ve done or have run across, please send me the URL and brief description via the contact link on my blog. WPF Windows 7 Sensor Trigger for WPF Applications (Synergist) My WPF 5 Wishlist (Paul Stovell) Layout Rounding (WPF Text Blog) Bindable Run (WPF Text Blog) TypeConverters with en-US machines with customized cultures (Rob Relyea) Getting Started with WPF 4: Button Controls Part 1 – Button is a Content Control (me) I’m going to start posting more “Getting Started” style posts where I assume little to no WPF experience. Feedback is welcome.

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Creating Customized UserControls (Deriving from ContentControl) in WPF 4

Another twitter question. As usual, I’m targeting WPF 4 here, but just about everything here works with Silverlight 4 as well. (read from bottom up) Let’s say you want to create a standardized “gadget” for your application, from which anyone can derive and create their own gadgets. The desire: Provide a base gadget that has some sort of standardized chrome and some behavior to be inherited by all derived controls.

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Getting Started with WPF 4: Button Controls Part 1 – The Button is a Content Control

I have an ongoing twitter search for topics of interest to me and my position at Microsoft, so anything with words like “windows forms”, wpf , windowsclient.net etc. all show up in my search. Thought that, I often find folks who are struggling with how to get started in WPF. I’ve been meaning to do some beginning WPF tutorials for a bit. Since the main focus of my job is to help people be successful with windows client developer technologies, I figured that would be a good idea. Scott Hanselman once described our job as “starting when you hit File-> New Project in Visual Studio” The latest tweet conversation went like this (latest post at top, starter at the bottom) I show this not to single out Christian, but to show one of the roadblocks folks new to WPF often hit: templating of controls. If you’re used to Windows Forms or even ASP.NET, where purpose-built controls exist for the common scenarios, doing something as simple as creating a flat image button can be somewhat daunting

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Simple EventArgs in Silverlight

In my previous post, I talked about the Silverlight Media Framework (SMF) .

Getting Started With Silverlight and SharePoint 2010

One of the cool features of SharePoint 2010 (currently in beta) is that you can set it up on a Windows 7 machine. This means that as a SharePoint developer you no longer have to run a Server OS. To get started I downloaded the SharePoint 2010 Foundations beta from here . You will also need Visual Studio 2010 which you can download from here . To setup SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 you need to follow this guide which explains how to configure the setup process to run on Windows 7 (it is only one change to an xml file). Make sure you install all the prerequisites which I won’t list here (they are listed in the guide). It will still install even if you don’t, but you will get errors when you try to configure SharePoint (voice of experience here)

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Bytes by MSDN: Brad Abrams Interview with Billy Hollis: Silverlight 4, RIA Services and VS2010

Bytes by MSDN is doing a bunch of really interesting interviews with folks behind the technology.

Field Level Access with RIA Services

There are lots of reason you may need to customize the access to given fields within an entity.

Silverlight MVP

On October 1st I was honored to receive the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award for Silverlight . I am very excited that I received this award and look forward to continuing my contributions to the Silverlight Community . I wasn’t the only one to receive this honor as Tim Heuer blogged here : As of today (01 OCT 2009) we welcome some new folks to the Silverlight group: Rick Barraza ( @rickbarraza )– wicked interactive design/developer with kung-fu XAML skillz Bryant Likes ( @bryantlikes )– great contributor to the Silverlight Forums helping others solve their problems! Corey Schuman ( @cschuman )– UX design/developer in Atlanta doing a bunch of great Silverlight community work Davide Zordan ( @davidezordan )– over the pond in Italy spreading the Silverlight love! Jeff Paries – Silverlight animation wizard – get his book ! Robby Ingebretsen ( @ingebretsen )– another kung-fu XAML/Blend ninja Ambrose Little ( @ambroselittle )– co-author of Silverlight 3 Programmer Reference and the man behind Quince (no @ambrosesbeard was not awarded) Huijun Li – helping spread the Silverlight in China overseas! I’m very excited to be a part of the Silverlight MVPs group and look forward to working with them all.

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