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hah... supposed to be my last post but hey i have 1 more thing to post. This is a good book for 3d - plus it's very focus and not thick at all. Very well written. I have to buy this full-price since I can't order book from the company anymore. Actually
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This should be my last blog post here at MSDN blog. 9/14/2007 is my last day at Microsoft and if you know me or would like to contact me or would like to chat about UI/UX technologies - email me at kenny.lim@frogdesign.com . I'm still based in Seattle,
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UIElement.InputHitTest is a hidden function that could do just that, public IInputElement InputHitTest ( Point point ) Passing in the coordinate, and this function will look at the element subtree and get the element (IInputElement because it's a common
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This is such a cool API, this is one sample usage (ie. Drawing a clock). I could see things like manually tracing a PathGeometry which could contain complex Bezier segments. double len = 0d; Point pt, ptTan; EllipseGeometry geo = new EllipseGeometry (
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System.Windows.PresentationSource PresentationSource is such a useful class after digging deeper into it. I’ve use it from time to time and looking at its members, I can see more use of it in the future. The purpose of PresentationSource is to handle
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Browsing around the my Windows Vista at home, I saw this "people near me" icon. Reading more about it, it's a new capability of Peer to peer networking built into Windows Vista. It allows you to connect to literally people near you in the airport, in
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This is valuable information on hooking into DP system of WPF. The answer is DependencyPropertyDescriptor. This is similar to PropertyDescriptor from WinForm. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.dependencypropertydescriptor_members.aspx
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A free book from Petzold. What the C or C++ Programmer Needs to Know About C# and the .NET Framework Available in XPS and PDF. http://www.charlespetzold.com/dotnet/index.html
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The hardest thing about creating 3D is where to source my MeshGeometry3D data. That's the TriangleIndices, Normals and Positions. These numbers are enormous. Lucky thing there are tools (reading Tim's blog ), I found ZAM 3D and other conversion utilities.
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I read Petzold's blog from time to time and I realized recently he has posted a lot of good 3d content. http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2006/12/140114.html http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2006/12/160115.html http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2006/12/171020.html
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Recently I have this bug inherited from my good intern that WPF <Popup/> will always be TOP_MOST in terms of z-index. The bug scenario is that when you have another application (eg. notepad.exe) going on top of my WPF application (with Popup launched),
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It's been sometime since I last post here. This site even come with a new blog software. Very nice. Every year during my OOF days, I worked on some hobby project that I will be using. Last year, I was doing a Stock reader for my own consumption. It comes
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I saw Tim's challenge and thought about some interesting single element XAML. One of my markup which I thought will cover the whole screen does not do that anymore, it just covers about 80% of the screen MAX. I remember going thru the threat modeling
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It has been a while since I last blog about WPF (Avalon) related work. Well, here’s some updates on something I tried recently. I have some requirement lately to implement some GridLines for Diagrams. I first try to use OnRender and doing DrawLine inside
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If you have access to Microsoft Office 2007 Beta2, check out this new office program: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/programs/outlook/cpa.mspx This software has dependency on Windows Presentation Framework Beta 2 (codename: Avalon) and of course
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