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June 2006 - Posts

New Screencast Showing Workflow Between Graphic Designer and Interactive Designer

How would you like to create assets in Graphic Designer and apply them to your WPF applications in Expression Interactive Designer without ever touching a line of XAML? With some new features in the May 2006 CTPs of EGD and EID, you can do this. This Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 20, 2006 3:34 PM by karstenj | 1 Comments

Highly Recommended Tutorial for Learning Expression Interactive Designer

Up on the Expression blog, a fantastic tutorial that isn't in the docs yet has been posted . I just walked through the entirely thing step-by-step and it is probably one of the best resources out there for unlocking the power of EID and WPF. It explains Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 20, 2006 10:58 AM by karstenj | 0 Comments

Workflow Between Expression Interactive Designer and VS

Nathan Dunlap , WPF designer extraordinaire, put together a fantastic screencast and code sample that shows how to create workflow between Expression Interactive Designer and Visual Studio. Nifty stuff like creating a .dll in VS with dependency properties Read More...
Posted Friday, June 16, 2006 2:45 PM by karstenj | 0 Comments

3D Integration in Windows Presentation Foundation: Daniel Lehenbauer Does It Again

How did I miss this? Daniel's show on 3D Integration in Windows Presentation Foundation is really nice. Even better, he shares some great code samples , which indirectly lead me to http://viewport3d.com which has a nifty article -- nice domain name snag, Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 12:29 PM by karstenj | 4 Comments

My Five Day Course For Hitting the WPF Curve/Cliff

At this point, with the amount of great content online (and free), it is possible to train yourself on WPF. But where to begin? There are a ton of links, blogs, documents, screencasts, videos and more -- so much, in fact, that beginning can be daunting. Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 10:38 AM by karstenj | 18 Comments

MSDN Wiki

Wikis are only as good as the contributors, but the new MSDN wiki is already shaping up to be quite good. There isn't any of the .NET 3.0 docs up there yet, but if you going online to get information about .NET 2.0, I'd go here so that you get both the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 3:14 PM by karstenj | 1 Comments

Thoughts On Video on 3D in WPF

I have uploaded Sandbox3D into the WPF Gallery. I added back the X, Y and Z axes using ScreenSpaceLines3D from Daniel Lehenbauer. Most interestingly, I show two different techniques for mapping video on 3D. One is using the VideoDrawing with a MediaPlayer Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 2:33 PM by karstenj | 3 Comments

.XBAP Development Made Easy (Or At Least Easier)

Karen Corby has published a template for Visual Studio that allows you to seamlessly switch between compiling for a standalone application and compiling for an .xbap. Even more nifty, she has added support for conditional compiles in both code and XAML Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 2:23 PM by karstenj | 3 Comments

One Stop Shopping For Resources/Links: next.design.now

Are you looking for all the important links for Vista WPF WPF/E .NET 3 Expression XAML Atlas and more? Check out next.design.now : one stop shopping for all the links that matter! Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 13, 2006 3:22 PM by karstenj | 4 Comments

Animation Abstraction: Check Out Brandon Furtwangler's Animation Behaviors

The WPF animation capabilities are powerful, but a bit opaque. EID helps, although in its current pre-beta state it only unlocks so much of the system. Animation begs for more abstraction and it was only a matter of time before someone did it. Check out Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 13, 2006 2:08 PM by karstenj | 0 Comments

WPF Community Site: Now Posting All My Samples in the Gallery

Now that the WPF Community Site is live, I'm migrating all my samples to there. So, the first one is up: Monkeys Jumping . Another handy feature is the blog aggregation of both Microsoft WPF bloggers and active non-Microsoft WPF bloggers . This site will Read More...
Posted Monday, June 12, 2006 9:12 AM by karstenj | 0 Comments

Updated MSDN Article on Dynamic Animations in WPF

I've updated an MSDN article that I wrote quite awhile back called Creating 2-D and 3-D Dynamic Animations in Windows Presentation Foundation . Basically, it is a visualization of CPU utilization, dynamically creating the animation on the fly using the Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 08, 2006 3:40 PM by karstenj | 1 Comments
 
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