Tag Archives: wpf

WPF Tip: Identifying WPF Applications

Often on twitter I see posts like “I just downloaded X, it looks awesome. Is it WPF?” One way to easily answer that question for yourself is to download snoop and run it. If you hit refresh and the application shows up, it’s a WPF app. If not, well, it’s not :)

The Book of WPF

Ever wonder what types of applications people are building in WPF ? It can be hard to just stumble across them as they are typically products, or applications behind firewalls. Luckily, we now have the Book of WPF . The Book is a nicely produced PDF with screen shots and information about each of the apps being showcased.

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The Book of WPF

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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Windows Client Developer Roundup for 2/8/2010

Simple column labels you can create at home! [Re-Templating the Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization ColumnDataPoint to add annotations]

A customer contacted me over the weekend asking how to add labels (also known as annotations) to a ColumnSeries . My reply was that we don’t support annotations in Silverlight/WPF Charting yet, but it’s possible to create some pretty simple ones for limited…( read more )

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Simple column labels you can create at home! [Re-Templating the Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization ColumnDataPoint to add annotations]

Styling a TreeView in Silverlight and Blend 3

Introduction Today I would like to show you how to style a TreeView control in Silverlight using Expression Blend 3. The TreeView is a control to visualize hierarchical data structures. The TreeView control isn’t part of the standard Silverlight 2 or 3 download, but can be downloaded from http://www.codeplex.com/silverlight . The TreeView control is available in WPF natively and styling is only a small bit different than in Silverlight. I try to explain one way of doing this and there are oth

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Styling a TreeView in Silverlight and Blend 3

WPF Toolkit: Charting release

The Silverlight Toolkit’s chart controls have made their way into the WPF Toolkit! More details on David’s blog….( read more )…( read more )

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Dispatcher and Multi-threading in Silverlight3

In Silverlight3, as with WinForms and WPF,  we need to be careful about cross thread communication. Controls instantiated in the XAML DOM belong to the UI thread and only the UI thread can update them. To see this, try updating the UI from a different thread, public MainPage() { InitializeComponent();   // Explicitly start a new thread, Thread myThread = new Thread (FillRectangle); myThread.Start(); }   void FillRectangle() { // Try to update the UI

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Better XAML By Farr: WPF Line of Business Seminar

The WPF Line of Business seminar is a two day introductory provided by Microsoft outlining WPF, its benefits, architectural patterns practiced, and coding tips within line of business development.  After developing in WPF for over a year I thought this would be a good seminar to attend to gage where I am at as far as WPF development.  Well, I am very happy to find I follow very similar techniques and patterns as the Microsoft WPF experts Karl Shifflett and Jaime Rodriguez.  The seminar took plac

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WPF and Silverlight Building Rich Interactive Applications with XAML

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) WPF provides a unified framework for building applications with rich user interfaces and interactivity. It is built on top of the .Net Framework and makes use of the managed and unmanaged code. WPF programming model allows the developers to write code once and deploy it as a standalone installed application or in a browser. (more…)

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WPF or Silverlight - What’s the difference?

Silverlight was of course known as WPF/E where E means everywhere. Both use XAML, a form of XML to define controls but WPF is purely for windows while Silverlight…

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