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Thank you for your feedback on Silverlight Control Licensing

Recently a posted a set of questions around Silverlight Control licensing . I was really happy with the number of responses I got. Thank you all for replying. To give you an idea of what the responses were like: 15/17 Control Vendors license their controls Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:40 AM by jnak | 0 Comments

Cider (WPF and Silverlight Designer and Tools Team) is Hiring!

Want to work on the designer and tools for WPF and Silverlight? Here's your opportunity, and it's an amazing one. We're really excited about all the cool work we have coming in the next Visual Studio release, code named Dev10 and the division is investing Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 12:36 PM by jnak | 0 Comments

Divelements SandRibbon for WPF

Following up on the great design time experience that they developed for their SandDock for WPF , divelements has just released their SandRibbon control that includes an impressive array of design time features . The SandRibbon is a control suite that Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:21 PM by jnak | 1 Comments

The WPF Designer for Windows Forms Developers

One of the things we've been working on as a team is a guide to help Windows Forms developers ramp up on the WPF Designer in Visual Studio 2008. Thanks to the great writing talents of Jim and the whole Cider PM team, this white paper is now available Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 5:29 PM by jnak | 2 Comments

Actipro WPF Studio - Updated with Improved Design Time Support

On 1/29/2008, Actipro released a new build of their WPF Studio. You'll recall that I blogged about their use of extensibility to improve the design time interaction of their controls. This new release ups the ante with drag and drop layout, a really cool Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2008 4:31 PM by jnak | 0 Comments

Mincom Case Study

Here is a case study of one of the companies we've been working with, Mincom. http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000001266 They've made great use of Visual Studio 2008 and specifically of Cider/WPF. Read More...
Posted Monday, January 28, 2008 11:55 AM by jnak | 1 Comments

Showing Attached Properties in the Cider WPF Designer

If you create a type that defines an attached property, you will notice that this attached property does not show up in the WPF Designer (Cider) Property Browser. So how do you get it to show up and what level of control do you have over when it shows Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 11:16 AM by jnak | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): AttachedPropertyInDesignerDemo.zip

DevComponents DotNetBar Suite for WPF

DevComponents recently released their DotNetBar Suite for WPF and it is loaded with design time features. Using Cider Extensibility, DevComponents really has put together one of the richest design times I've seen to date. Denis talks about the features Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 5:47 PM by jnak | 3 Comments

Workaround for Style.Triggers Design Time Issue

I've received two bug reports from Control Vendors regarding Style.Triggers not working correctly at design time in the WPF Designer RTM. Fortunately, we do have a workaround to the problem. Suppose you have a trigger defined as follows: <Style TargetType="{x:Type Read More...
Posted Friday, January 04, 2008 4:28 PM by jnak | 3 Comments
Attachment(s): StyleTriggerDesignTimeAdornerSample.zip

Actipro Ribbon - Office 2007 UI

Another great example of cool design time functionality in Cider (WPF Designer in Visual Studio 2008) comes from Actipro. Their Office Ribbon control uses Cider Extensibility to add task panes invoked by an adorner that makes configuring their control Read More...
Posted Friday, December 28, 2007 12:48 PM by jnak | 3 Comments

SandDock for WPF by Divelements

Now that Visual Studio 2008 has been released, one of the real fruits of my job is to see how our customers end up using our product. Specifically, I really enjoy seeing how WPF Control Developers end up using the WPF Designer Extensibility API that I Read More...
Posted Friday, December 28, 2007 12:03 PM by jnak | 4 Comments

Giving Focus to Adorners

If you add a TextBox as an adorner to your design time, by default you will not be able to give that TextBox focus. That is, you won't be able to set the cursor in it so that you can type. Similarly, if you use a TabControl as an adorner, by default you Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 27, 2007 11:05 AM by jnak | 3 Comments

Specifying a Toolbox Icon for a Control in the WPF Designer

Recently I had a customer point out the following from the documentation: Differences in Specifying Toolbox icons In the Windows Forms Designer framework, you specify a Toolbox icon for your custom control by applying the ToolboxBitmapAttribute to your Read More...
Posted Monday, December 10, 2007 4:25 PM by jnak | 2 Comments
Attachment(s): ToolboxIconSample.zip

Mole 2.1 - WPF Runtime Inspection Tool

Ran across this today and I thought I would pass it along as it is a very useful tool for WPF developers. Mole II is a high performance, full featured Visual Studio Visualizer which allows you to inspect elements in the WPF visual tree or logical tree, Read More...
Posted Friday, December 07, 2007 10:08 AM by jnak | 3 Comments
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How to get the best out of the WPF designer when laying out your WPF app

Mark Wilson-Thomas is our resident WPF Layout expert and is leveraging my blog to get some great information out about how the VS 2008 WPF Designer approaches layout: How to get the best out of the WPF designer when laying out your WPF app Lots of folks Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 04, 2007 4:26 PM by jnak | 2 Comments
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