August 2005 - Posts

• New blogger

  My colleague and friend ChuckJ has started blogging. Chuck has been key in defining the latest XAML spec and is on to new and exciting stuff to be revealed soon: http://www.removingalldoubt.com/ In a former life you may know Chuck as architect of Borland Read More... Posted Friday, August 05, 2005 6:39 PM by JohnGossman | 0 Comments

• Counting all the Visuals in an Avalon tree

  Here's an example of using the VisualTreeWalker from the last post: public class TreeStatistics { private int visualCount; private int greatestVisualDepth; private int depthTotal; private FrameworkElement root; public TreeStatistics(FrameworkElement root) Read More... Posted Thursday, August 04, 2005 9:28 PM by JohnGossman | 1 Comments

• Avalon Performance: What is your Visual count?

  The Avalon compositional UI model encourages you to create Styles and Templates (VisualTree in the May CTP build) that automatically generate visuals. Build a complex Visual Tree and create a bunch of these automatically with data bound ListBoxes, and Read More... Posted Thursday, August 04, 2005 9:28 PM by JohnGossman | 1 Comments

• Walking the Visual Tree in Avalon

  Sometimes you just need to walk the tree of Visuals in Avalon. It's easy to do, but it is even easier if you have a nice Visitor-pattern implementing tree walker. So: using System; using System.Collections; using System.Diagnostics; using System.Windows; Read More... Posted Thursday, August 04, 2005 9:20 PM by JohnGossman | 1 Comments