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D2D development blog

July 2006 - Posts

2B0ST0N6 day one
This is the first of my posts describing my experiences at SIGGRAPH 2006. I will try to have a post every day summarizing what I see. Everything here is my personal opinion. The first day of the conference is a little more low key than the other days, Read More...
Changing Panels and DataTemplates with ItemsControls in WPF/Avalon
I have posted before about the philosophy behind the ItemsControl, and now I will pull together some concepts from previous posts. I will use the RadialPanel and some ValueConverter magic to show how we can take a ListBox (the most famous of the ItemsControl Read More...
More advanced attached property use: the Ramora pattern
I like to think of the technique I am about to demonstrate as the Ramora pattern - it allows you to attach a chunk of logic to any existing element that you have. The RadialPanel example showed an example of storing information on an element using attached Read More...
Running a blog is hard
I finally found the settings in my blog that allow me to keep track of comments. For some reason, I thought that it was set to notify me when I got comments and it was not. While I was there I found the old comments that I neglected to moderate and pushed Read More...
Attached properties - the basics
One of the coolest features in Avalon is the property subsystem. While it might seem difficult for some that Avalon has a property system built on top of the normal CLR properties, the power that this system gives you is incredible and is part of why Read More...
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