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The WPF team at Microsoft is happy to present the first release of the WPF Application Quality Guide. http://windowsclient.net/wpf/white-papers/wpf-app-quality-guide.aspx It’s a guide that upon completion can be a one-stop shop for guidance and best practices
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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
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Now this is pretty funny... Watch the video that was played at the start of the keynote address at TechEd 2007 Video: Microsoft Back to the Future Share this post
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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
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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)
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We now have a new community site for WPF - WWW.windowsclient.net It gels both the WPF and Windows forms communities and provides for a unified .NET/Windows client community. This effort consolidates the community knowledge - so more power to you guys
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I got a couple of mail regarding the performance tools... The good news is that the Windows SDK which was released a week ago has the updated WPF perf tools. WPFperf.msi comes as part of the SDK. You would have to uninstall previous versions of the msi
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Heard about SilverLight … it was announced today by Microsoft at the National Association of Broadcasters(NAB) conference. So what is it – “ Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences
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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
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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
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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
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I hope you guys out there have tried out the New York Times NewsReader. It enriches the reading experience. It’s more immersive in the sense that you get the feel of reading a newspaper J . Now we expand this experience to more readers. We now have Seattle
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Tim has been posting some kewl WPF apps that are being released to the public. To add to that collection, I came across this nice little xbap. http://sp.warnermycal.com/vista/contents/preview.xbap Share this post
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Just came across this super cool WPF web app… Its called “turning the pages” and is developed in partnership between the British Library and Armadillo Systems . This is one helluva app. Play the video below. If that got you interested check out the app
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A ScrollViewer is a very handy control. One of the problems, however, is bringing a control to Focus or scrolling to the item. If this is done manually, that’s not an issue. But programmatically hmm.. You can hit some issues. The simplest way is to call
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