I’m in the middle of building a fun little WPF standalone Windows application that needs to build a project from the command-line, using msbuild.exe. To do this, I’m using System.Diagnostics.Process to execute msbuild.exe in another process. The...

The DataGrid has to be the most requested and sought-after WPF control. Today Xceed Software has released version 1.0 of their WPF DataGrid. Check it out!

Currently, when you click on a link to download one of the Windows Presentation Foundation Samples , you go to the Windows SDK .NET Framework 3.0 Samples page, which allows you to download all the samples at once. The problem is that when you are looking...

If you haven't yet, and if you care about the performance of your apps, take a look at the Optimizing WPF Application Performance document. It's got a ton of great perf tips and information about the inner-workings of the platform. As a side note,...

Although WPF animations are easy ( see earlier post ), that doesn't mean there aren't some tricky areas of animations you should be aware of. The WPF animation team and SDK just created a list of tips and tricks for working with animations that we will...

Introduction Windows Presentation Foundation features quite a variety of different mechanisms that provide notifications of when a property changes its value. These mechanisms come from several different feature areas: from data binding, from the WPF...

Creating animations in WPF is easier than it sounds. No explicit use of timers is required, in fact you can create many useful animations using pure markup (XAML). Perhaps the best use of animations is to spice up UI. Most properties of objects can be...

Members of the WPF 3D team have provided a list of 3D classes and properties with performance implications, along with recommendations for optimizing performance when you use them....

People have occasionally asked about using a Style to set the content of a control. For example, suppose you want all of your buttons in an application to have the same content. You can do something like this (As usual, this doesn’t make sense for a real...

The Windows Presentation Foundation SDK provides a complete set of technical content that targets the core scenarios that are enabled by WPF. Of course, developers in the real world encounter a wide variety of interesting and not-so-common scenarios and...

One of the really cool features of WPF is its ability to place 2D content on 3D surfaces. For example, you can place a button control on a sphere or arrange images on a cube. However, w ith V1 of WPF, you couldn't interact with this 2D content. You could...