How would you like to create assets in Graphic Designer and apply them to your WPF applications in Expression Interactive Designer without ever touching a line of XAML? With some new features in the May 2006 CTPs of EGD and EID, you can do this. This...

Up on the Expression blog, a fantastic tutorial that isn't in the docs yet has been posted . I just walked through the entirely thing step-by-step and it is probably one of the best resources out there for unlocking the power of EID and WPF. It explains...

Nathan Dunlap , WPF designer extraordinaire, put together a fantastic screencast and code sample that shows how to create workflow between Expression Interactive Designer and Visual Studio. Nifty stuff like creating a .dll in VS with dependency properties...

How did I miss this? Daniel's show on 3D Integration in Windows Presentation Foundation is really nice. Even better, he shares some great code samples , which indirectly lead me to http://viewport3d.com which has a nifty article -- nice domain name snag...

At this point, with the amount of great content online (and free), it is possible to train yourself on WPF. But where to begin? There are a ton of links, blogs, documents, screencasts, videos and more -- so much, in fact, that beginning can be daunting...

Wikis are only as good as the contributors, but the new MSDN wiki is already shaping up to be quite good. There isn't any of the .NET 3.0 docs up there yet, but if you going online to get information about .NET 2.0, I'd go here so that you get both the...

I have uploaded Sandbox3D into the WPF Gallery. I added back the X, Y and Z axes using ScreenSpaceLines3D from Daniel Lehenbauer. Most interestingly, I show two different techniques for mapping video on 3D. One is using the VideoDrawing with a MediaPlayer...

Karen Corby has published a template for Visual Studio that allows you to seamlessly switch between compiling for a standalone application and compiling for an .xbap. Even more nifty, she has added support for conditional compiles in both code and XAML...

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The WPF animation capabilities are powerful, but a bit opaque. EID helps, although in its current pre-beta state it only unlocks so much of the system. Animation begs for more abstraction and it was only a matter of time before someone did it. Check out...

Now that the WPF Community Site is live, I'm migrating all my samples to there. So, the first one is up: Monkeys Jumping . Another handy feature is the blog aggregation of both Microsoft WPF bloggers and active non-Microsoft WPF bloggers . This site will...

I've updated an MSDN article that I wrote quite awhile back called Creating 2-D and 3-D Dynamic Animations in Windows Presentation Foundation . Basically, it is a visualization of CPU utilization, dynamically creating the animation on the fly using the...