Calvin Hsia's WebLog

In the last post Create your own media browser: Display your pictures, music, movies in a XAML tooltip , we created a query of your local media and displayed it. Today, we'll make a query to my Foxpro picture database of 28,000 pictures/movies...

In my prior post , I showed how to use XAML and XAMLReader to create inline XAML to display the results of a query. Today, let's take it a step further: let's create a query of all the media (pictures, movies, music) in your "My Documents" folder...

Using WPF, it’s great to use declarative XAML , but it’s also great to use dynamic code. With VB’s new XML Features , you can do either. Below is a sample showing how to use XAMLReader to take XML generated in code and use it to create XAML to present...

We can subclass the prior Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) class called Browse that displays the results of a query. This subclass will add a WPF Popup to it. The popup can easily be added to either a ListView or the ListBox sample I posted...

In my last post, Use LINQ with WPF : Styles and DataTemplates in code , I showed how to use DataTemplates in code to show the results of a query in a ListBox. Let's make a reusable class called Browse which creates WPF content as a ListView from...

Using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and LINQ is easy in code. We'll create a query and display it in a WPF ListBox Using XAML is harder: the ObjectDataProvider class works with non-anonymous types. Start Visual Studio 2008 (or 2005...

I spent a few hours at a local company called 2Bot ( http://www.2bot.com/ ) which makes a 3-D printer that you can attach to your computer via USB port. Yep, I said 3 dimensional: you can feed it an architectural drawing of a building or landscape, and...

An ImageList can be used for a ListView or TreeView control to contain many images in a single file, usually embedded as a resource. Visual Studio itself has many icons. If you open Windows Explorer or Internet Explorer, you can see many icons in...