Windows Presentation Foundation User Education

The WPF Animation Team created this cool red bouncing ball. Thanks Ed! When the ball hits the bottom of the canvas it flattens slightly before bouncing upwards. The Animating XAML Clip Art posting shows you how to creating a bouncing effect (without...

This posting contains four XAML clip art files you can use when creating your sample WPF applications....

See Robert's posting if you cannot view images after installing WinFX Beta 2: http://blogs.msdn.com/rwlodarc/archive/2006/05/25/607131.aspx About Us We are the Windows Presentation Foundation SDK writers and editors. WPF SDK Online Portal...

XAML FlowDocuments and HTML have some things in common. But they also have some distinct differences that makes writing a conversion utility tricky. A well written XSLT could potentially process XHTML input and generate FlowDocument content... But this...

Most readers are probably already aware of the Beta2 release of Windows Vista yesterday, but I thought I'd provide pointers to the proper URLs anyway. If you're looking for the download page for the Beta2 release of Windows Vista, it's available at this...

Shows how to add key-frame animation to XAML clip art. Uses splined interpolation to create a more realistic acceleration and deceleration effect....

Shows how to enable simple speech synthesis in a WPF application, using objects in the System.Speech.Synthesis namespace. Demonstrates how to play back speech, as well as control the volume and playback rate of speech....

The Windows SDK Beta 2 refresh is scheduled to happen very soon. At that point in time, the content that we've been working on since the last CTP SDK refresh will become available both in the offline Windows SDK and the http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft...

You can easily convert images in WMF format to XAML by using Microsoft Expression Graphic Designer — it’s in beta, so you can download it for free and try it out. What’s WMF? It’s the Microsoft W indows M etafile F ormat that can store vector graphical...

Why, you might ask, does a Software Development Kit (SDK) team need its own blog? What do we have to offer the Windows Presentation Foundation developer community that's not available elsewhere? Good questions, to be sure... Let me tell you why we started...