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Check them out - including screenshots - on Karl’s (one of my friends) site: http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/xaml-power-toys/ XAML Power Toys Speed up production of Business (LOB) Applications in WPF and Silverlight! Automatically create XAML views
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In This Tutorial: · Template project and simple 3-step instructions to kick start WPF pixel shaders · Introduction to Pixel Shaders in WPF · Source Code for 3 pixel shaders · Links to 2 pixel shader sources on the web Using Shaders in WPF: The Easy Way
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Attachment(s): Beginner’s WPF Pixel Shaders.pptx
I found a very good post: How to do LayoutTransform in Silverlight. Currently Silverlight supports RenderTransform out of the box. Read this: http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2008/05/27/lying-to-the-layout-system-for-a-good-cause-bringing-layouttransform-to-silverlight-2.aspx
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Erick Ellis and Mark Wilson-Thomas talk about what's new in the WPF editor for Visual Studio in .NET 3.5 SP1. Topics include faster performance both from WPF and optimizations of their own, new cool visualizers, the Document Outline (very useful for WPF
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Just a small reminder for myself. I have to do this way too often recently to remember. This is how to read embedded resources in Silverlight application (or WPF app for that matter) - like binaries, images, xml, etc, from an embedded resource /// <summary>
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Update on job positions! Do you want to work as part of the Microsoft Visual Studio Product Team? If "yes", please contact me for details. For the people that contacted me already: thank you. I've been forwarding your CVs as appropriate to our recruiters
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When trying to bind animation To and From properties to something else you may get this exception: “ Cannot freeze the storyboard timeline tree for use across threads”. One possible workaround is to put the animation in a resource. I found a very good
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Update on job positions! For the people that contacted me already: thank you. I've been forwarding your CVs as appropriate to our recruiters in the past few weeks. Sorry for not anwering yet to all of you. Will get back to you ASAP. There are several
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This is a v0.1 white paper that we hope upon completion to be a one-stop point for guidance and best practices to improve product quality and testability for WPF applications. The first CTP of the paper has few selected content. Content in HTML format
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Nice. I'm so happy. Our product is RTM now!!! Yes!!!!!! http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx :))
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I just found this very nice blog entry with hints for WPF 3D Summary of the hints that I found more interesting/not common: 1. Set Viewport3D.IsHitTestVisible to false. It's true by default, which means that hit testing for 3D content is performed on
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Here is a simple function that will convert RTF data on the clipboard to XAML: /// <summary> /// Returns the text contents of the clipboard as XAML /// </summary> /// <returns></returns> public static string GetFormattedXamlFromClipboard()
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Ever needed a sample code to programmatically extract data from Excel 2007 table? Given an excel table like this (in book1.xlsx): Name ID Color Ball 1 White Phone 2 Green Cup 3 Yellow Here’s a function to retrieve the contents of the table: /// <summary>
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Attachment(s): ExcelHelper.cs
Although this blog is about XAML only I decided to take on the next step and write some code behind. 1. How to get selection range excluding the UIElements and such from RichTextBox: StartIndex = new TextRange(richTextBox.Document.ContentStart, richTextBox.Selection.Start).Text.Length;
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Do you remember long time ago when you (or someone else) used to play with small and cute snails, dirt, and sticky, slimy things? The blobs are here again! Remember your most precious childhood memories (where applicable) with this short blobbyfying experience.
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Attachment(s): Blobs.xaml
