Martin Grayson: Adventures of a 'Devigner'

As previewed at MIX06 ... the IBlock beta is now availble for testing . And it is addictive. Unless you have a couple of hours spare playing with IBloks, then stay well away. This is set to be one of the first commercial WPF apps. What IBloks does...

Tim Sneath tells us whats new in WPF Beta 2 , and where to get just about everything! Martin

Ok, so one of the things I hope to achieve with this blog is to share all of the little gems that I come across in the web, as well as highlighting some articles from the big boys' blogs, such Tims, Karsten, DanC etc. So, without further adue... (and...

Well, this is my second day of being a blogger, and I am well chuffed with the traffic coming onto the blog. So chuffed in fact, I have uploaded a little sample I made a while back for you all to enjoy... I made this when I first started playing...

PLEASE SEE THE UPDATED TUTORIAL HERE Alot of people ask, when it comes to WPF, how do I make my app look cool? WPF allows to fully customise the look and behaviour of all the common controls - this means a button no longer needs to be represented...

One of the great things about WPF is how easy it is to make a fully scalable UI. The above picture is an examply of a UI i made, with live reflections, menus and images, and with one line of XAML, it became fully scalable. How was this acheived - by...

Just a brief post with a code snippet demonstrating how to create a custom event with WPF... for most this won't be unfamiliar, but for those who are new to UI development, this is key... Below is the snippet where I register the event. In this example...

Get started here with this great MSDN article . Martin

Probably not the most thrilling first post, but Dependency Properties are a big thing in WPF land. A Dependency Property is a property that is registered with the Avalon Dependency property system. This is useful for 2 main reasons... Backing...

Well, actually, they began about 6 months ago, so i have alot of catching up to do. So... This space is where i intend to talk about WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation). There maybe some other topics that I cover, whether it be User Experience, Office...