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ABCs of Threat modeling ...
Larry Osterman has an interesting series of posts on Threat modeling.. It starts from the basics and is very comprehensive. A application needs to go through the threat modeling process to identify possible threats, the mitigations, and the risks involved. Read More...
3.5 features: Viewport2DVisual3D
Viewport2DVisual3D .... this new feature makes things a lot easier in the 3D world.. What this enables is putting interactive 2D on 3D. This makes things like having a textbox in 3D a breeze... < Viewport2DVisual3D x:Name = " vp2d_multiple_children Read More...
3.5 features: Addins
In 3.0, we received a number of queries regarding creating plugins. So in 3.5 we got this in .. :) .. Creating an adding would bsically need the use of 3 dlls - System.Addin, System.Addin.Contract, System.Presentation The basic steps to create the addins Read More...
3.5 features: Filtering text with IME languages
So 3.5 beta2 is out and it has quite a lot of features. So one of them is the filtering mechanism for IME languages. This was not a problem in the english and other non-IME languages. The problems were the events associated with IME input - TextInputStart/Update/input... Read More...
3.5 released with many features!!!
You can now download Visual studio 2008 Beta2 and .Net 3.5 Beta 2. The link is here So whats new in 3.5 - Support for Addins - Xbaps now run in FoerFox - Cookies can be shared between XBAP's and Web Apps - Better support for binding to BindingList coll Read More...
WPF Balloon comments :)
Pavan has a nice post on creating baloon comments. The first thing that comes to mind on seeing the balloon comments is Comics. And guess what! thats exactly what I tried.. and presto You can get the original source code here . It overlooks positioning Read More...
WPF Blog Writer
Recently, I was trying my hand at creating a simple blog writer. The writer came out pretty nice. The app makes use of a base richEditor control (thanks to Praj ).. After a bit of tweaking it ended up like the above... So the app just makes a simple call Read More...
Xaml shield image in plain Xaml
just came across a post which includes xaml to display the xaml shield. That looks sweet.. and all the more when its in Xaml... Xaml code attached Share this post Read More...
Vista style Open/Save FileDialogs
If you have tried creating FileDialogs in WPF, they usually do not blend well into the Vista look. The solution is to use the wrappers provided in the VistaBridge library which is part of the SDK samples. You could include the library dll (around 100k) Read More...
Update: XamlPadX v2.5
I was pleasantly surprised by the response I got for the last update of the tool. Along with the feedback I got a few bugs... ahh the bugs ... so went about fixing them ... Got a couple of new features too. :) If you have noticed above, theres a System Read More...
Xaml FlowDoc to XPS
Feng Yuan has a nice blog post on how to convert FlowDocuments to an XPS document with the header. The code is in the form of a wrapper class so its gonna be handy. I tried out the code on a RichTextBox and it worked like a charm J I reused one of my Read More...
Smalltalk sessions in a XBAP
Xbaps are just multiplying by the day... Just came across this interesting xbap which runs VistaSmalltalk sessions. Its got a nice usage of popups. http://vistascript.net/vistascript/vsb/Vsb.xbap Share this post Read More...
Sample form using listview
Recently I was clearing up my documents and I came across this sample I made. Thought it might be useful to someone out there and here it is. It’s basically something like a form but which dynamically grows as and when you fill up the rows. So the typical Read More...
BitmapSource-Bitmap interop
Recently I was trying my hand at a rough image editing scenario and one of the things was changing into gray scale, brightness and so forth. If you have played with .NET 2.0 you get quite a few functions which help in these types of operations and it Read More...
Listening to DependencyProperty changes
Dependency property is a pretty kewl concept. You got to agree on that J . One the nice features is the ability to listen to the changes in these properties and I tend to use it a lot. The SDK way would be to derive from the control, override the dependencyproperty Read More...
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