WPF
All things related to Windows Presentation Foundation.
I spent a little bit of time with this the other day, and I thought I'd pass the learnings on, in hopes it helps someone. This is the layout what I was trying to accomplish with WPF. In a section of my window, I wanted a bit of text at the top, and then
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Gorgeous text is something I have long been passionate about . This recent Engineering Windows 7 blog post talks about Windows 7 improvements in text rendering and typography. I love the variations on the Gabriola font, and the stuff they do with the
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Finally, the examples I mentioned on my last post about text . Let's take the WPF text rendering engine as my example of a text processor that's sophisticated enough to handle this correctly. First off, as explained in xml:lang Handling in XAML , the
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Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) has recently had a refresh to its performance tools. You can read more about it on the What's New for Performance Profiling Tools for WPF post. The suite of tools includes a bunch of very interesting tools, one of
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Long on prose and short on code, this post just explores some patterns involving mutable/immutable objects in the .NET Framework (mutability from an external point-of-view, at least). The punch line comes at the end, for all of those interested in how
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One somewhat obscure feature of XamlPad is the ability to insert snippets in the text editor area. Right-clicking on this area shows a number of items you can insert, such as "Comment Selection" or "Multiline TextBox" (note that "Animated Background"
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I'll be leaving on vacations for a couple of weeks soon, so it's very unlikely that you'll see updates in that time frame here. Vacations are a good time to recharge batteries and spend time broadening horizons, which also helps connect dots sometimes...
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The Windows Performance Tools Kit is now shipping along with Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 . A mouthful both, to be sure, but if you use either regularly it won't be long before they become just "xperf" and "the SDK". The
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Adam Root has posted a step-by-step post on how to enable nice preview images across windows when implementing drag and drop. I haven't written on the topic in a while, but it's turned out to be a very popular source of emails even today, so I'm sure
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The announcement is right here . ScottGu has a recap of the articles he's posted so far here . For those who fell like they can't wait for the download, the "What's New" page is available on MSDN here . As you can see, there's a lot of developer love
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How we get here I found myself wanting to have a nicer way of looking at a bunch of data I reference every now and then. Often I will whip up a quick HTML application to do this - it's ultimately a simple text file I can quickly edit and tweak, and the
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Also known as "how do I perform drag-drop between two data-bound list boxes"? Well, excellent question - here's a first shot at the answer, although there is much polish that could be added. This really isn't all that different from the series that was
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I always found the text layout on the DataColumn.Expression page a bit odd. So, in the spirit of my last post , I decided to go ahead and do something similar for it - here is a reformatted version, which will print out in columns and should fit on a
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So, I've been doing a bit of work with System.Reflection.Emit lately, and I've found that just having the list of the OpCodes fields around is pretty useful. I navigate to the page, but there are really a lot of opcodes, and I keep scrolling back and
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You can use the spell-checking functionality provided by the RichTextBox to quickly correct those pesky typos! Just navigate to something like the following, and you're done. <DockPanel xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation
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