I got back yesterday from the PDC. It was a great trip. As promised, I’m posting the demo code for my talk. This zip contains each stage of my ColorPicker demo: 0) A simple UserControl that uses standard CLR properties and INotifyPropertyChanged 1) A conversion of 0) to use DependencyProperty and Binding...

TreeMaps have been all the rage. I figured it would be cool to see how easy it would be to build such a thing in WPF. It turns out that getting started in pretty easy. There are a number of implementations of TreeMaps around. I found a Java one that looked like a good place to start. After a bunch...

The last time I blogged about TreeView, I was still using the control I personally implemented. Now that WPF actually has a TreeView, lets talk about how to use it. The first thing you’ll notice is that the API for what we shipped is pretty identical to what I blogged. (Guess who wrote the spec for WPF...

I had my final dry-run for my talk today: PRS431 Custom Controls in WPF . If you have a free slot on Friday at 10:30, stop by. Room 402. Part of the preparation for the PDC is uploading our slide decks to a common share so that they get down to LA and get on the presentation machines. When I uploaded...