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December 2005 - Posts

Tuesday, December 20, 2005 10:32 PM

Bad install of WPF?

Magnus Hiie reported an interesting problem that some of you may be hitting (thanks Magnus!). He saw System.Windows.Serialization.BamlParseException occurred Message="Error at element 'StaticExtension' in markup file '' : Binary format of the specified
Posted by nkramer | 3 Comments
Wednesday, December 14, 2005 5:40 PM

Support for layered windows

One piece of feedback we've heard loud and clear is that you want layered windows. Well, I'm happy to announce that based on your feedback, we now plan to officially support layered windows in WPF 1.0, coming to a future CTP near you (not necessarily
Posted by nkramer | 8 Comments
Sunday, December 11, 2005 9:16 PM

Tricks and tips

IsHitTestVisible – want to draw something on the screen, but have the mouse input pass right through that drawing? Then set IsHitTestVisible=”false” on it. Disabling default styling -- Controls actually have two styles for looking up its values - the
Posted by nkramer | 0 Comments
Thursday, December 08, 2005 2:44 AM

If xaml is so easy, why is code so hard?

Charles Petzold has written a couple good posts about the relationship between code and xaml, and asks, "Why is something that is so easy to do in XAML so clumsy to do in code?" Obviously, WPF code is not always clumsy. But where it is, there's usually
Posted by nkramer | 1 Comments
 
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