Marc: My Words : WPF

Multi-Touch Surface with Physics Engine

maholmes — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:14:58 GMT

Fresh up on the YouTube Channel is this awesome piece of work from the guys in the Microsoft Technology Centre . I’ve talked about the value the MTC for a business before . This particular work was by Dave and Andy who are some of the smartest guys I...(read more)

WPF Twitter Search Kiosk Thing

maholmes — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:45:42 GMT

Talking of great examples, MikeT had a crack at the Twistori thing that MikeO looked at but took a slightly different tack and employed WPF. He’s written the whole thing up as a 7-part (count ‘em) series. You can start here. Much as I love Silverlight,...(read more)

MicroQuest - A WPF GameWorld

maholmes — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:10:19 GMT

In the last post, I cobbled together something that was serviceable as a pathfinding routine, and was left with the beginnings of some structures - such as Location and Unit - that would be needed in MicroQuest. In this post, we'll look at building the...(read more)

WPF and Physics

maholmes — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:40:23 GMT

Chris Cavanagh has posted some great code on using a physics engine with WPF. It's an interesting and elegant example demonstrating a few things: A series of objects making use the wrapped physics engine Chris has chosen. The use of data templates and...(read more)

Kaxaml

maholmes — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 05:33:40 GMT

Robby has been good enough to put his turbo-charged XamlPad replacement on his site. You can get it here ....(read more)

Using WPF inside Media Centre

maholmes — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:42:27 GMT

Typically, Media Centre applications are written in MCML (Can you guess - Media Centre Markup Language...) but it's good to know that you can in fact use WPF XBAP applications inside Media Centre too. The Media Centre SDK contains some instuctions on...(read more)