Hopefully I wasn't too subtle yesterday . As of this morning, we are live with Beta2 of Vista, which means Beta2 of WinFX (which includes WPF) is also live. Go! Download! Quick! Before they run out! You can also download the May 2006 CTP of Expression Interactive Designer (which...

As Rob has already mentioned, I’m talking at TechEd . I’m giving two talks. Data Visualization in WPF (with help from Robby and Bea ) This is 6/13 from 2:45pm to 4pm. Building Data-Driven Apps with WPF This is my shot at Namita’s talk from the PDC. (She did an amazing job, so I ...

Mehrdad is looking for some WPF books. I know of two: Programming Windows Presentation Foundation XAML in a Nutshell ...and of course, Chris Anderson is busy working on his book. I expect that once Beta2 hits the road, we'll see a lot more books on WPF and WinFX. I can't wait...

ItemsControl has a protected virtual GetContainerForItemOverride that takes an object parameter. In all in-box WPF controls, this parameter is ignored and a cookie-cutter container is returned. While it’s currently possible for control authors to change the container they return depending on the...

As promised, the ATC team has posted another ListView sample . This sample is amazing because it doesn’t involve ListView at all. Instead, it uses the primitives we designed for ListView--namely GridViewColumn and GridViewRowPresenter. The code required here is amazingly small for the flexibility of...

No control in our library demonstrates the power of WPF more than ListView. It is the example of how element composition can be leveraged to make amazingly beautiful and amazingly flexible experiences. Check out the inaugural post from our friends in the Advanced Technology Center in Beijing. I've...

In case you haven't heard , the WinFX February CTP has been released. If you haven't downloaded it yet, what are you waiting for! Go! Get it! Now! Alright, as is the custom, I've posted a new and improved drop of my Bag-O-Tricks . In this release: TreeView Double...

We're not nearly as entertaining as Don and Chris , but Robby and I are in another video on Channel 9 (our last one was on MSDN TV ). This time we talk about our experiences with Windows programming, the web and the power/flexibility/extensibility of WPF. It was a fun conversation. Robby is giving...

Our friends from Max have been busy. Not only are they cranking away at a beautiful WinFX app, but they're taking time to blog about their adventures. Ben has blogged about IScrollInfo [ Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 ]. If you are making your own panel and want a ScrollViewer to party over...

Robert and I just got posted to MSDN TV. We do a talk on the Power of Templates in Windows Presentation Foundation. If you want to look at my sample (the folder picker), just download my Bag-o-Tricks . It's one of the samples in there. If you want to download Robby's sample, please be patient...

I think at some point I mentioned I've moved over to work on Data Binding in WPF. Binding is a thick, but powerful subject in WPF. One of the testers on my team is blogging (and she's hiding outside MSDN blogs). Beatriz is amazing to work with. Her blog is also very helpful. Send her a message...

As you may already know, there aren't really any changes to Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in the January CTP . I have noticed some updates to the VS extensions for Visual Studio , so you may want to update your bits anyway. I received a bunch of suggestions for samples , but nothing that...

I have one Messenger Beta invite to give out and I'm always looking for WPF sample suggestions. So... I have no strict criteria. The first suggestion that makes me think "hmm, that looks interesting" wins. Tips: if it's trivially simple or insanely complicated, you probably won't get it. Take a look...

It's been pretty quiet around the office this week. I've had a chance to do some updating and clean-up on a bunch of samples that I've created over the last several months. I've decided to roll up all of my samples into one application. This will make it much easier to roll changes forward as we make...

Here's an early Christmas present: download the latest CTP of WinFX and the associated extensions to Visual Studio and you'll get basic XAML preview and editing in Visual Studio. Happy Holidays!

I discovered the game Hex when I spent a semester in Australia my senior year of college. Taking the things I learned building Minesweeper , I thought I'd see how far I could get with Hex. I'm pretty happy with the results. (As with my first post of Minesweeper, this is a work in progress.) I had...