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WPF for Serhend - Visual Studio 2008

Up to this point we have been slumming with command line tools and text editors. Now were going to upgrade our tooling to Visual Studio (namely 2008). The install guide mentions it way back at the beginning of the series where we set up our development

WPF for Serhend - Drawing data with templates

Lets replace WpfHelloWorld.xaml with the below markup that defines a template for drawing Orbiter objects. .csharpcode { FONT-SIZE: small; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Consolas, "Courier New", Courier, Monospace; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff } .csharpcode

WPF for Serhend - Custom objects in XAML

Lets create a custom object to be displayed in XAML Create a new c# source file Orbiter.cs next to WPFHelloWorld.cs from the last sample. In that file place the below code. This code defines a class for the Orbiter object that given a Center, Radius and

WPF for Serhend - More of that XAML

Here is a larger WPF UI expressed in XAML The sample is a top level window with a series of containers (Panels) used to size and position other WPF elements. Some things to note: Elements inside the DockPanel tell the dock panel where they want to dock

WPF for Serhend - Enter the XAML

You may have noticed that WPF UI can be expressed as a tree of items XAML is a markup format for describing a tree of objects for example .csharpcode { FONT-SIZE: small; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Consolas, "Courier New", Courier, Monospace; BACKGROUND-COLOR:

WPF for Serhend - WPF via C#

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WPF for Serhend - C#

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WPF for Serhend - Setup

First thing's first, lets get you your runtime environment. You are going to need at least version 3 of the .Net Framework. It comes with Vista but needs to be downloaded and installed for XP http://www.microsoft.com/downloads Once .Net is installed you