I was recently working on an article for the SDK and noticed some unexpected behavior in one of my examples. After a long discussion with a developer on the team, I caught onto some concepts that weren’t readily obvious to me. I’m going to share my findings...

So this is kind of embarassing but there is a mistake in the WPF reference documents out there. Under the Platforms section of all the WPF reference documents there is the following INCORRECT statement: " Windows 98, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows...

For this release, the Windows SDK is available as either a DVD ISO image (so that you can burn your own DVD) or as a Web Install (so you can launch Setup over the Web to install and download only the components you select during setup). For details and...

People who are new to the platform often have these questions about styles and templates (and a related concept, resources): What is a Resource? In the simplest terms, a resource is a reusable object. For example, the following SolidColorBrush...