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As promised , I've updated the bag-o-tricks. Download now . Updates Hex Hex had a few rough edges that I cleaned up. Thanks to fun with MultiDataTrigger, I removed the need for a special "HexButton". I also cleaned up a bunch of stuff that I must...

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...

I've been sitting on this demo a few weeks, so I'm excited to finally share the code publicly. Go down the the WinFX Runtime Components - November CTP The latest release includes a simple, static event: CompositionTarget.Rendering. This simple...

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 celebration of the availability of the January CTP of VS "Orcas" , I've updated the bag-o-tricks. (Actually, it's because I'm stuck at home, but I wanted an excuse to mention the VS CTP.) Download here: http://j832.com/bagotricks/ Have fun! New: Zap...

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...

A recent forum post asked how one could build out ItemsControl-like functionality in a custom control. Let me start from the basics. ContentPresenter presents content. If you give it a UIElement (Grid, Button, Border) it will just display it. Easy enough...

Okay, I admit I should have a whole mountain of new and sexy stuff for the RTM release. I've been busy lately. Busy with fun stuff. I'm hoping I'll get to talk about it soon. (Yeah, I'm a huge tease. No, I won't be able to share anything with you even...

Do you live in or around London? Are you interested in Avalon? Have you been playing with the November CTP? Would you like to meet a Program Manager on the Avalon team? Ask questions, give feedback, make suggestions? I’m going to be doing some travel...

Once you get the resources for more than one control in generic.xaml, things can get a bit messy. What one really wants: split up your resources into separate dictionaries for each control. I do this as part of the latest bag-o-tricks . I should...

In my last post , I walked through creating a simple hierarchy using styles. Now, let's bring it to life. We want to add expand/collapse to our TreeViewItem (HeaderedItemsControl), but IsExpanded is not a property on HIC. We need to add one. Let...

Lake Okoboji is freezing over indefinitely. In an effort to unify all the random stuff I do, I've rolled my WPF blogging under my (vanity) domain. Point your favorites and feed aggregators to work.j832.com . See you on the other side!

Our friends in Media Player have done a fine job with Media Player 9. One slight problem: I think they got their first use experience a little wrong. Usually when I launch Media Player, I want to listen to my music, not watch a trailer for Scooby Doo...

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...

I tested the latest rev of the bag-o-tricks on Vista RC1 (which included the .NET Framework 3.0 RC1) with VS 2005 RTM. I just did an install of .NET 3.0 September CTP + Orcas tools ("Cider") September CTP + VS 2005 SP1 Beta on my XP machine at home. All...

It's 1:22 AM. I think I'm getting sick. I'm flying out for California tomorrow. Haven't packed yet. And I'm coding. Some ideas you just have to get working before you can put them down. In no way is this beatiful code. The end-to-end is pretty interesting...

Kidding... Adobe makes some amazing Windows applications, but am I the only one who would like web-hosted PDFs to open outside the browser? After a quick search, I found the simple solution (for v6.0 at least) Open Adobe (Acrobat) Reader from the start...

The Bag Glad to see people are downloading the RC1 rev of the bag-o-tricks . Thanks for the love . (Always love to hear I have " nice code ".) I've already gone down another level on some of the layout tricks I use to get the animation working with...

Mr. Sells does a great job of listing the great features of Vista . (Including some things I don't use enough.) I had fun bringing my laptop back to Iowa for Christmas Thanksgiving. Everyone I showed just sayed said "wow". I'm proud to have shipped code...

I’m going to walk through creating a simple TreeView with the March CTP of Avalon. First, the tools you need. 1) Visual C# Express 2) Avalon and Indigo Community Technology Preview - March 2005 (In a previous post , I’ve...

I love running the highest performance, most stable OS Microsoft has ever produced on my desktop. The problem: a lot of the features that make a sense for a server OS, make little sense for a desktop. An example is the Display Shutdown Event Tracker...

I think it was Paul Stovell's article on Validation in WPF that got me started. The article is amazing and has inspired a lot of my thoughts on what to do with binding in v-next. Paul mentioned CSLA . I wasn't familiar. I dug in. Found Rockford Lhotka...

Forgot what link brought me here, but I was quite impressed with the analysis. Programmer's Don't Like to Code ...they like problem solving . If programmers liked to code, we’d all be writing in machine language to this day. You can write that stuff all...

Interacting with 2D on 3D in WPF Holy hotness! Check out details on the WPF3D Blog Check out the Channel9 interview Check out the CodePlex project (and download the toys ) Go build games for your XBOX Too many links. A great write-up on FierceDeveloper...

I'm working on an end-of-year letter as web site. (Yeah, I'm a geek. I have way more email addresses for friends than mailing addresses.) Anyway, I've been bought into CSS for a while. The start of my projcet aligned nicely with the shipment of Expression...