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February 2007 - Posts

Animation Performance Comparison Between WPF/E, WPF, DHTML and Flash/Flex

Alexey Gavrilov has written a piece comparing the animation performance of WPF/E, WPF, DHTML and Flash. One remark based on the article: we've got a known bug slowing down the performance on Firefox and we're current working on a fix for that. Here's Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2007 5:17 AM by Michael Harsh | 0 Comments

Another OS Clone in WPF/E

OS X looking WPF/E sample has popped up on the MSDN WPF/E forums . This one isn't as good as the vista.si sample and still has a ways to go, but it is impressive. One quick suggestion to everyone working on a WPF/E incarnation of an OS, use the new Downloader Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2007 4:51 AM by Michael Harsh | 1 Comments

Dan Whalin's WPF/E Album Viewer is Now Live

Dan's album viewer sample that queries the Amazon.com web service for album information based on a given artist has now been posted live on his xmlforasp.com site. Click the image below to run the sample, which includes a link to the source code. Dan's Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 27, 2007 3:45 AM by Michael Harsh | 1 Comments

Nick Kramer on Writing Reusable Controls in WPF/E

Nick has written an in-depth post on a method to write reusable widgets in WPF/E. This is really a mini-framework to help address some limitations of the February CTP of WPF/E. Nick's approach is XAML focused, in contrast to the code based setCallback Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 27, 2007 3:17 AM by Michael Harsh | 0 Comments

Dave Campbell's Glyph Map Utility

The small glyph sample Dave wrote last week was just a start. The newest WPF/E sample at WynApse enables browsing of 4 different ding fonts and the app itself has 4 different skins. Dave has a walkthrough of the sample and the code in the blog post . Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 22, 2007 8:05 AM by Michael Harsh | 0 Comments

WingDing Glyph Explorer

Dave Campbell has created a small sample which uses the slider from the WPF/E quickstarts to index through the different glpyhs in the WingDings font and display them in WPF/E. The sample and source can be found on Dave's blog post . Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2007 9:51 AM by Michael Harsh | 0 Comments

Chad Campbell's Video Slider Puzzle

Chad Campbell has created a very cool WPF/E slider puzzle that uses the Clip property on MediaElement achieve the effect. Chad's blog post has more information including source. Click the image below to run the sample. Read More...
Posted Monday, February 19, 2007 6:49 AM by Michael Harsh | 0 Comments

WPF/E Photo Viewer with Reflection

Lester Lobo has created a WPF/E photo viewer with a nice reflection effect. Lester didn't host his sample live so I've hosted it here. I also made a few small changes such that the sample resizes to always fill the browser window. The source for the original Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 17, 2007 4:54 PM by Michael Harsh | 1 Comments

WPF/E Path Editing Tool - In Windows Forms!

Gavin Gear has created a client application (written in Windows Forms) that lets you trace the outline of an image and generates WPF/E path data for the outline. Click the image below to read the blog post where Gavin has the all code for the tool. Read More...
Posted Friday, February 16, 2007 8:53 AM by Michael Harsh | 0 Comments

If you Upgraded to VS 2005 SP1 With the WPF/E SDK Installed...

There was a bug in the Visual Studio template installer that shipped with the WPF/E December CTP SDK. The bug causes the uninstaller to check for the VS web application project (WAP) support. Since Visual Studio 2005 SP1 includes WAP support the WPF/E Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 13, 2007 8:25 AM by Michael Harsh | 0 Comments

Some Confusion About WPF/E Requirements

I saw this blog post and I got the question a few times at Tech Ready this week. Just to clear things up, WPF/E does not have any system requirements besides a supported OS and browser . The WPF/E runtime does not require an install of the .NET Framework. Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 08, 2007 11:01 PM by Michael Harsh | 1 Comments

Simulating Grid Layout and Databinding in WPF/E

Bryant is serious about digging into WPF/E. Today he put up a post outlining a data grid simulation in WPF/E . As the name implies, a data grid needs both grid layout and data binding. These are two features missing from the current WPF/E CTP. Bryant Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:38 PM by Michael Harsh | 2 Comments

The Hong Button (is it really a button?)

Bryant has a new WPF/E sample on his site. This is a WPF/E remake of the Kevin button (I was actually just hanging out with Kevin at the Tech Ready ask the experts). This version uses the new WPF/E downloader object which has a similar API to XmlHttp, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 10:03 PM by Michael Harsh | 0 Comments

Matrix Style Text Animation with WPF/E

The ever industrious Chad Campbell has created another cool WPF/E sample . This one uses overlaid HTML text input like WPF/E Pad and tile text to grab a string (theoretically your name, though I used a slogan :)) and show a Matrix style animation to locate Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 12:02 AM by Michael Harsh | 0 Comments

That Poor Dog

Lorin of the WPF/E SDK team has posted a new sample that allows you to drag different accesories onto a picture Lorin's dog named Coco. The blog post has a walkthrough about how the sample was created and a link to the source. Click below to run the sample Read More...
Posted Monday, February 05, 2007 3:25 PM by Michael Harsh | 0 Comments

February CTP Samples are Posted!

The Channel 9 WPF/E playground has updated versions of all the December CTP samples and three new ones . The new sample pack containing all these can be found here . Read More...
Posted Monday, February 05, 2007 11:33 AM by Michael Harsh | 0 Comments

Dave Campbell's WPF/E Reflection Editor

Dave has put up a new WPF/E sample he built for a recent INETA talk . The sample has two images and sliders to manipulate their position and transforms. This enables you to build some nice 3D-esque reflection effects like the one I built below. Dave's Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 04, 2007 12:33 AM by Michael Harsh | 1 Comments

New Docs, SDK and Quickstarts

More February CTP updates: The updated documenation is available here There are a new set of WPF/E overviews here The February CTP SDK is here Updated QuickStarts are here Huge thanks go out to our SDK team who worked tirelessly to get this content ready Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 03, 2007 10:53 AM by Michael Harsh | 1 Comments

What's New in the WPF/E February CTP

The what's new doc has now been posted to MSDN. This has information about new features, APIs and breaking changes. The doc can be found at: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232842.aspx The new SDK and samples are coming shortly. Read More...
Posted Friday, February 02, 2007 2:02 PM by Michael Harsh | 1 Comments

Brush up on your Slovenian (Windows Vista-esque sample in WPF/E)

Check out this sample written in WPF/E. Very ambitious. The text appears to be in Slovenian based on the domain. http://www.vista.si/main.htm Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 1:56 PM by Michael Harsh | 2 Comments

WPF/E Pad and Others Updated for the Feb CTP

I've updated all the live samples hosted on my site to work with the February CTP. I'll be updating the source for these samples soon. WPF/E Pad Tile Text Clock Video player Ed's state animation sample Lee's animation comparison sample Shawn has also Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 12:13 PM by Michael Harsh | 7 Comments
 
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