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What Can YOU Do with 10K of Silverlight or WPF Code?

A lot, it turns out. Some long-time readers may remember my post of a year or two back where I set a fun little challenge to test what could be accomplished with just a single element of XAML . In the preparation for MIX09 , the team created a competition Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 29, 2009 10:26 AM by tims | 7 Comments

Great WPF Applications #17: HP Interactive Canvas

Kapow! Shazam! Zing! Mary Jo Foley from ZDNet drove in hard with a right hook last week , referencing my recently-returned-from-hiatus series of great WPF applications and asking why Windows Vista didn't have more killer applications. As one of her correspondents Read More...
Posted Monday, December 17, 2007 6:02 PM by tims | 6 Comments
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Great WPF Applications #16: Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista

It's time for me to reboot this series that showcases great applications built on WPF. I left it on hiatus for some months because I felt that the point had been well made, but it's probably time to pick it up again, not least because there's a swathe Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 06, 2007 12:30 AM by tims | 19 Comments
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Great WPF Applications #15: Microsoft Indexing Service

[Update: Happy April Fool's Day, everyone! For the avoidance of doubt, this was a hoax...] At the start of a new month, it's time for me to unveil a stunning example of how WPF can be used not just for dynamic, immersive user experiences, but also for Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 01, 2007 8:20 AM by tims | 20 Comments
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Great WPF Applications #14: Zurich Airport

From the beautiful city of Zürich in Switzerland comes this great example of how WPF makes data visualization a snap. In the scenario we're looking at here, the airport wanted a way to be able to track and manage flight operations. I'm sure we've all Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2007 11:54 AM by tims | 19 Comments
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Great WPF Applications #13: Pass

Let's say for a moment that you're a small business trader that needs to be able to receive payments both over the Internet and as point-of-sale transactions. You need a way to be able to handle expenses, manage accounts receivable and generally keep Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 6:19 PM by tims | 0 Comments
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Great WPF Applications #12: Roxio Central

I'm hoping that by now, you're starting to get a sense for the range and breadth of real-world WPF development that is going on in all parts of the industry. We've just scratched the surface here: there are many hundreds of WPF development projects underway Read More...
Posted Monday, March 05, 2007 5:12 PM by tims | 2 Comments
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Great WPF Applications #11: Areva e-terravision

I've been trying with this series to satisfy the desire we all have for instant gratification by including plenty of applications that you can download and try out with just a couple of clicks. But of course, not every application fits into that category: Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 22, 2007 6:12 PM by tims | 0 Comments
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Great WPF Applications #10: Daily Mail, Seattle P-I, forbes.com, New York Times

I've been holding off from highlighting the New York Times Reader as one of the applications in my portfolio for a few weeks, even though it clearly is a polished example of how WPF can transform user experience. Today, we can finally reveal one more Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 22, 2007 8:18 AM by tims | 34 Comments
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Great WPF Applications #9: Scripps Institute Cancer Research

I'm behind on my write-ups of great WPF applications, and they're stacking up. Sorry! The next application I want to feature is one that has real purpose, in that it's being used by medical researchers at the Scripps Institute who are working on potential Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2007 12:56 PM by tims | 14 Comments
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Great WPF Applications #8: NoteScraps

I love this little application: it's a joyous example of how the subtle use of WPF can add greatly to an application experience. NoteScraps is a handy little tool for jotting down little nuggets of unstructured information - when you're on the phone and Read More...
Posted Friday, February 09, 2007 2:56 PM by tims | 8 Comments
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Great WPF Applications #7: Skandia Cowes Week CourseSetter

I wanted to draw attention to this one, because it's such a fun usage of WPF. Each summer, the Solent waters (between the British mainland and the Isle of Wight) are host to a world-class sailing regatta with a thousand boats racing in forty different Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 06, 2007 5:17 PM by tims | 2 Comments
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Great WPF Applications #6: fnac.com

If you want to see a contrasting online shopping experience to Otto , you could do worse than look at fnac.com. FNAC are in many ways the French equivalent of Best Buy, selling all things electronic: cameras, MP3 players, televisions, PCs. To coincide Read More...
Posted Friday, February 02, 2007 2:12 PM by tims | 7 Comments
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Great WPF Applications #5: TF1

I'm slightly accelerating the pace of these articles from the planned daily push, simply because there are just so many to cover. From the moment I pushed out the first entry in this series, I started to receive emails from people around the company and Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 4:52 PM by tims | 3 Comments
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Great WPF Applications #4: Otto

Although you may not have heard of them by name, Otto Group are a huge retail conglomerate with €9b of revenues in 2005/6; they own retail outlets like Crate and Barrel in the US as well as catalog companies like Grattan and Freemans in the UK and the Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 11:00 AM by tims | 21 Comments
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