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My name is Pedro Silva. I’m the development lead in the Visual Studio Platform team at Microsoft, working on VS Extensibility features, enabling VS extensions and the VS SDK.

The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in any way.

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WpfAboutBox: Dialog Layout and Styles
I wanted to make an AboutBox that is as easy to use as the one that comes with Winforms. But, I also wanted to make use of some of the cool new UI capabilities in WPF and make it look a little snazzier than the default WinForms one… Below are the two Read More...

Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 10:40 AM by PedroSilva | 1 Comments

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Attachment(s): WpfAboutBox v0.1.zip

WpfAboutBox: Intro
I've been testing out some of the different possibilities in WPF with a sample AboutBox -- every program has one and they're not overly complex (so they make a good starting point). Also, for those of you WinForms-turned-WPF devs out there, you've probably Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 06, 2009 8:26 PM by PedroSilva | 2 Comments

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Programmatic Access to XmlDataProvider
It’s pretty easy to set up an XmlDataProvider as a resource in your WPF application. This lets you databind controls to XML data islands pretty easily. The following XAML puts an XML data island into my application. < Application.Resources > < Read More...

Posted Monday, May 04, 2009 10:30 AM by PedroSilva | 2 Comments

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A WPF Dialog Window
I’m continuing to work through learning more about WPF and XAML. I was trying a simple dialog and noticed that it didn’t look like typical Windows dialogs… for example, all WPF windows have an icon, but if you look at dialogs in most apps (and what WinForms Read More...

Posted Monday, April 27, 2009 2:24 PM by PedroSilva | 1 Comments

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Attachment(s): DialogWindow.cs

WPF LinkLabel
WPF doesn't have a built in LinkLabel control as you'd find in WinForms. But, I have found a couple of neat ways of doing one in WPF. The first was creating a new WPF control that derives from Label and then adds functionality to have it behave like a Read More...

Posted Friday, April 17, 2009 3:30 PM by PedroSilva | 2 Comments

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