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Beta2 is out -- What's new in Cider

Mark shows off some of the new and exciting features in Cider Beta 2 , including: DataSources window now works in Silverlight (as well as WPF) - you can now drag and drop from this window to your design surface to automatically hook up to data. Property Read More...
Posted Monday, October 26, 2009 6:36 PM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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Some of these pages are no longer intentionally left blank.

One thing we neglected to mention in the release notes is that you can now load up roots other than Window and Grid in the August CTP. The list I believe is anything deriving from Panel, Page, UserControl and ContentControl. So if you have the latest Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 13, 2006 11:15 AM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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Scott starts blogging, and lets us know about Winforms/WPF gotchas

If you're doing Winforms and WPF you might just want to check it out . Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 09, 2006 1:57 PM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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Upgrading to June CTP? Your layout might be different.

There's a breaking change to the WPF control templates, which you might need to know about . The controls I've noticed that need a double check are: Button ComboBox ListBox TextBox PasswordBox Slider Thumb ToolBar TreeView ProgressBar TabControl GridSplitte Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 28, 2006 10:18 PM by jfoscoding | 1 Comments
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What is Rich Data Visualization Anyways?

One of the things you hear over and over again with WPF is the ability to do Rich Data Visualization. It has always made me cringe, as it always seems like to fit into that category you need a 3D rotating panda, or some sort of alien chart form that would Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 11, 2006 6:04 PM by jfoscoding | 3 Comments
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Brian discusses the evolution of user input and feedback in the designer

Brian walks through the history of the implementation of grab handles and snaplines in the designer , and how through the magic of the new architecture in Cider for the first time grab handles, snaplines and other "adorners" will have proper access to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 18, 2006 1:35 AM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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Mike shows us how to localize a hybrid application

Mike Henderlight has walked through a sample on how to localize a WPF/WindowsForms hybrid application. More information for XAML in particular: Localization requirements for your XAML resources Globalization for the Windows Presentation Foundation Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 05, 2006 8:10 PM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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What's the difference between the "EmbeddedResource", "Page" and "Resource" Build Actions?

Jim has posted the results of his recent inquiry on this subject as well as some other goodness about WPF resources. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 05, 2006 8:04 PM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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Commanding in WPF

There's a nice article out on commanding in WPF. Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 02, 2006 1:05 AM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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Feb CTP is out

Feb CTP is out . Rather than have a separate install, Cider is now integrated into the Visual Studio "Orcas" Development Tools for WinFX. (Note the designer requires a full version of Visual Studio 2005.) Tim and Karsten have posted a list of "breaking Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 25, 2006 10:28 AM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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Some "Avalon" goodness...

I thought I'd put up a few good reads: Mapping PIs are going away in the next CTP. Rob promises to post a tool to help convert your apps . (In the next CTP, the RichTextBox stuff will start working.) Rob talks about Attached Properties and Markup Extensions Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:00 AM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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Kevin & Robby show "The Power of Templates"

There's a nice new MSDN TV episode talking about Data Templates and Control Templates . Read More...
Posted Friday, February 03, 2006 12:57 AM by jfoscoding | 1 Comments
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Tell us what you think about the Grid!

As you may know the Jan CTP is out , with improvements to the Cider Grid design time experience. We want to know what you think . Read More...
Posted Friday, January 27, 2006 6:08 PM by jfoscoding | 0 Comments
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More on "Avalon" RichTextBox

As promised , I learned more so I'm sharing. Last time I figured out how to stuff plain text into the RichTextBox, but that's not very "rich", is it? How do I put RTF (rich text format) into a RichTextBox? It turns out the support for this seems to be Read More...
Posted Monday, January 16, 2006 12:33 PM by jfoscoding | 11 Comments
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Some tricks for working with WPF’s RichTextBox

I’ve been playing around with the RichTextBox, and as Richard points out, the free spell checking on WPF TextBoxes is really cool – especially for the “spelling challenged” such as myself. The programming model for the WPF RichTextBox is quite a bit richer Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 14, 2006 2:19 AM by jfoscoding | 2 Comments
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