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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 9:09 AM

Microsoft Surface Announced

A very cool user interface built with WPF: Microsoft Surface (Yes, it's a Flash site.) Gotta say I really want one...
Posted by jgalasyn | 3 Comments
Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:06 AM

WindowsClient.net is up and running

The new Windows Client site is now available. Here's what the site has to say for itself: Welcome to WindowsClient.net, the community learning resource for Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation. This site focuses on all aspects of rich client
Posted by jgalasyn | 2 Comments
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 3:37 PM

Pointing a 3D Model Along a Direction Vector

Recently, I found it necessary to point a Model3DGroup instance along a direction vector. I've solved this problem a few times before. For example, in my Managed DirectX implementation (may it rest in peace), it was simple to do with Euler angles: Quaternion
Posted by jgalasyn | 0 Comments
Friday, May 04, 2007 11:07 AM

Here's a nice reference on 3D performance

I just discovered this great post by the WPF 3D team: Maximizing WPF 3D Performance on Tier-2 Hardware Now I know why a BitmapEffect slowed my MediaBarrage application to a crawl!
Posted by jgalasyn | 0 Comments
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 12:17 PM

More on Multithreaded UI in WPF

Multithreading support in WPF has been much on my mind lately, especially with my MediaBarrage app. Dwayne Need has a nice discussion of multithreaded UI here . His quick demo is very informative and shows how to compose pieces of UI from different threads.
Posted by jgalasyn | 2 Comments
 
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