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Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:26 AM

Create your own Test Host using XAML to run your unit tests

A few days ago, somebody came into my office and plopped down a box. It seemed very light. He said that it was a new PC. I thought hmmm…. The box seems empty…Why am I getting a new PC?. Apparently an inventory was made and my current hardware was at the
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 10:54 AM

Use WPF and inline XAML in your Fox, Excel or VB6 applications

My prior post showed how to create XAML WPF and put it on your Winform App. We can go one step further: add XAML to a UserControl, which could then be made into an ActiveX control, which could be hosted by Fox, VB6, or Excel. Start Visual Studio 2008
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 4:07 PM

Use ElementHost to Add WPF to your Wndows Forms or put your WinForm controls in your WPF app using WindowsFormsHost

Many of you already have a Window Forms application. You can add WPF to your existing application quite easily using the ElementHost class , which can be added as a control to your form. (You can also go the other way: host a Windows Forms control in
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Thursday, December 06, 2007 12:37 PM

How to Create dynamic XAML to display arbitrary XML

Here's a sample of creating dynamic XAML to display arbitrary XML You can use the XML DataProvider to supply XML data to XAML, a web service, or you can use a Query. Each way, you can generate XAML dynamically to display the XML. (echoes of XSLT) I took
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Friday, November 30, 2007 1:10 PM

Use LINQ to Foxpro or any SQL data and display it in a WPF form using DataSetExtensions and DataRowExtensions

In the last post Create your own media browser: Display your pictures, music, movies in a XAML tooltip , we created a query of your local media and displayed it. Today, we'll make a query to my Foxpro picture database of 28,000 pictures/movies. We'll
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 10:46 AM

Create your own media browser: Display your pictures, music, movies in a XAML tooltip

In my prior post , I showed how to use XAML and XAMLReader to create inline XAML to display the results of a query. Today, let's take it a step further: let's create a query of all the media (pictures, movies, music) in your "My Documents" folder and
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007 11:08 AM

WPF Animation: Use dynamic XAML to animate movies using XAMLReader or animate in code using BeginStoryBoard

Using WPF, it’s great to use declarative XAML , but it’s also great to use dynamic code. With VB’s new XML Features , you can do either. Below is a sample showing how to use XAMLReader to take XML generated in code and use it to create XAML to present
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 1:50 PM

Use the DispatcherTimer, Popup and even a movie to enhance your data presentation

We can subclass the prior Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) class called Browse that displays the results of a query. This subclass will add a WPF Popup to it. The popup can easily be added to either a ListView or the ListBox sample I posted earlier
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Thursday, November 15, 2007 1:23 PM

Use DataTemplates and WPF in code to create a general purpose LINQ Query results display

In my last post, Use LINQ with WPF : Styles and DataTemplates in code , I showed how to use DataTemplates in code to show the results of a query in a ListBox. Let's make a reusable class called Browse which creates WPF content as a ListView from a LINQ
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Monday, November 12, 2007 10:28 AM

Use LINQ with WPF : Styles and DataTemplates in code

Using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and LINQ is easy in code. We'll create a query and display it in a WPF ListBox Using XAML is harder: the ObjectDataProvider class works with non-anonymous types. Start Visual Studio 2008 (or 2005 with Visual
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Friday, October 26, 2007 1:40 PM

Create a WPF Form to choose a text color

I wanted to choose some nice colors for various kinds of text, so I wrote a simple text color picker using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) . The code creates a TextBlock and 4 slider controls: one for Alpha channel (Opacity) and one each for Red,
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