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November 2008 - Posts

Forwarding the DataGrid’s DataContext to its’ columns..

DataContext is a very handy inherited property on any WPF application..      Most of the time, I set DataContext near the root on the [logical] tree, and let the inherited DataContext do its magic to bind the rest of the scene. Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 22, 2008 12:40 AM by jaimer | 4 Comments

Microsoft Client Continuum in action: The Silverlight toolkit charts, running in WPF

The Silverlight toolkit CTP released at PDC includes some new charting functionality  (Column, Bar, Pie, Line, and Scatter).    The long-term plan is for all of these controls to be ported to WPF; but inspired by Rudi’s work Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 16, 2008 11:05 PM by jaimer | 17 Comments

Eight WPF themes released…

Today, Rudi Grobler released a “ WPF Themes Pack ” on codeplex. The project includes eight XAML themes for WPF applications… Read his announcement here .   WPF Themes Codeplex project is here . I like his ‘Expression Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 2:47 PM by jaimer | 2 Comments

NY Times ReaDER Free Edition..

One of my favorite WPF apps is the NY times reader.. but a while ago they started charging a subscription fee and {since I am a cheap skate, and a very seldom commuter}  I stopped using it.. Now they are back with a Free Edition..  It includes Read More...
Posted Monday, November 10, 2008 9:09 PM by jaimer | 2 Comments
 
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