Windows Presentation Foundation User Education

Hey WPF devs - as of today you can get the Microsoft Surface 2.0 SDK and write your own surface app. You can even use a Windows 7 touch computer to create and test your app! To start playing and get more info, go to the www.surface.com !

We are doing a study to see how we are doing with our documentation. Your input will inform and inspire improvements and new features for developers. We’re looking for developers who Code at least 20 hours per week Are employed as software...

I recently learned about Ron Jacob's Hand on Lab for Windows Workflow Foundation 4 and I liked it so much that I decided to create one for WPF. Check out the WPF Simple Application Walkthough on Visual Studio Gallery! I adapted an existing topic on MSDN...

Peter Gruenbaum has written a great article in the November 2010 issue of MSDN Magazine about the why and how of documenting APIs . You can read it online here: Hello World! A Coder's Guide to Writing API Documentation .

Update: I guess I didn't check the link I originally posted well enough. It's fixed, now. Thanks to Thomas Freudenberg for providing the correct link. OK, I know this update is several months old, but I was so excited to see this feature that I wanted...

In July, the Microsoft Ribbon for WPF was released. Hopefully you saw the announcements from the WPF Team and on Pete Brown’s blog , and have already downloaded the Ribbon. A little bonus that you get with the Ribbon is the WPF Shell Integration...

The writers on the WPF Developer Content team own over 30K topics in the MSDN library. But one of the most viewed topics is Getting Started (WPF). I'm trying to make the topic more helpful, relevant, to the point, etc. I updated the page a few months...

If you haven't heard the latest buzz about the Windows Phone 7, you must be living under a rock. Or at least away from the Internet! Now you can develop applications for Windows Phone before it even debuts! The Windows Phone 7 Developer Toolkit is available...

I got an email the other day from Ivo Manolov who worked for several years as the test lead for WPF and then for a bit as the PM lead. He's recently moved to a new group, but he summarized what he's learned from his experience leading the WPF team into...

The WPF team has put together a new blog where you can go and find out what the people who create WPF are up to. We'll still be here writing the developer content and blogging about that, but if you want to find out what your favorite WPF developer (or...

At Tech Ed, one of the things we heard over and over is “More code!”  This is not a new comment. We hear it a lot and believe me we are trying to get the code you want (simpler, more complex, full downloadable sample) where you want it. But there...

I got an email the other day that included a twitter post with a link to this "map" of our documentation samples. It is a pretty fun way to see what all we have available. I don't know who created it but I really like it! Especially since we had a hard...

This week I'm hanging out at TechEd 2010 to find out more about what customers are interested in learning about in our documentation. I'll be attending sessions and attempting to get people to tell me all about their experience with the MSDN Library....

You might have heard a lot of buzz about the recent release of the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010.  But what you might not have heard is that a lot of the features in the new tools work just as well for developing a WPF application! ...

Microsoft released a Power Tool that adds keyword index capability to the Help Viewer with an option to display help in a standalone window. If you've been missing these features in Visual Studio 2010, check it out! If you have any questions or problems...

Recently I needed to get data from a database by calling a stored procedure. This seemed like it should be easy to do but it ended taking me 2 days to find the right feature that would work. My knowledge of databases is extremely limited and I ended up...

One of my favorite features offered by the new help system in Visual Studio 2010 is the ability to easily update offline content with the latest documentation from MSDN. If you use offline documentation in Visual Studio, one of the first things you should...

I finally got some time to dig through all my customer feedback requests and found a glaring problem! The OpenFileDialog class has basically no content on it and so I set about correcting that. It turned out there was a nice little example already living...

The question often comes up, "how do I get to a certain TreeViewItem?" The question arises because a TreeView is bound to a data source, TreeViewItems are implicitly created and wrap the data object. However, the TreeView.SelectedItem property returns...

One of the exciting new features in .NET 4 is the ability to use Windows 7 Shell features like Jump Lists, Thumbnail Buttons, and progress indicators in Taskbar buttons, with your WPF applications. These features are found in the System.Windows.Shell...

The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate is now available along with the documentation online at MSDN. There are a few new things you might want to check out. The Getting Started with WPF walkthrough has been completely updated...

In my last post , I demonstrated how to rotate the text inside a DataGrid header. And I suggested that you might want to actually create angled headers that look something like this. My friend Cheryl, from the Silverlight UE team, and I decided...

I was talking to Cheryl who writes for the Silverlight User Education team and she was trying to make DataGrid column headers with angled text. She was having trouble getting it to work so we sat down to look at it. We couldn't make it work, but I went...

Here’s a most excellent demonstration of how to author a custom design experience that’s shared between WPF and Silverlight controls. Karl gives you a detailed, step-by-step walkthrough, complete with Task List breadcrumbs: Walkthrough guidance in the...

uxlabs@Microsoft has just released Fishbowl, a sample client application for Facebook, complete with source code. Fishbowl requires .NET 3.5 and uses WPF and ClickOnce . If you’re using Windows 7, it also demonstrates new features such as Jump Lists,...