Great WPF Applications #1: British Library Turning the Pages

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WPF and the British Library

OpsanBlog — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:58:43 GMT

Turning the Pages: Great WPF app @ British Library

Expression & UX in Asia — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:59:55 GMT

This announcement is worth repeating. Take a look at Tim Sneath's post here for a good write up. Then

Check this out - another awesome WPF application

Nick Mayhew - Reaching out to partners in Australia — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:45:50 GMT

Via Tim Sneath: The British Library has published a new application allowing you to read some of the

re: Great WPF Applications #1: British Library Turning the Pages

Ryan Stewart — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:50:40 GMT

Whoa Tim! This one is GREAT, but it did run a bit slowly on my computer. All was forgotten when the app was loaded though.

re: Great WPF Applications #1: British Library Turning the Pages

Artur Zgodziński — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:35:46 GMT

This application is really great. But zooming could be improved. Now it seems to only enlarge the main image instead of downloading more detailed one so its quite difficult to read some blurred labels on old maps. Also memory requirements of this program seems to be a little high. After browsing several pages this program allocated more then 450MB. But still it was very nice to see my home town in such an old atlas.

re: Great WPF Applications #1: British Library Turning the Pages

Jerry Mead — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:41:28 GMT

The word 'beautiful' isn't always the first that comes to mind when reviewing yet another super-exciting WPF sample. But when you work with the British Library's app (great, naturally-usable UI) - and especially the Sherborne Missal - it's the beauty that hits you first and the scope & use of WPF second.

Congrats Armadillo Systems. Dead on ...

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Ezequiel Jadib — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:42:52 GMT

Si quieren ver una aplicacion para mi entender excelente, realizada con WPF, vean la pagina de la British

Samples for Windows Vista and .NET Framework 3.0

Eric Nelson - Development for .NET Framework 3.0 for ISVs — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:48:37 GMT

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New and Notable 139

Sam Gentile — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:03:09 GMT

Winter has finally set in with single digit temps and minus degrees wind chills but still no snow. WPF/Avalon

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Last Updated: Monday 5th February The following are a compilation of great samples and demos of applications

British Library WPF Application: Leaf through & annotate historic texts

Robert Burke's Weblog — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:18:47 GMT

The British Library has launched an application that uses the Windows Presentation Foundation to let

re: Great WPF Applications #1: British Library Turning the Pages

Chris — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:56:35 GMT

When will this be available for GNU/Linux users?

I hate blogs!

Richard Godfrey — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:29:49 GMT

I do! I really really hate blogs, not least because: I work for Microsoft but I rarely get to know about

re: Great WPF Applications #1: British Library Turning the Pages

Josh — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:53:24 GMT

The performance of this has to be improved. On my computer P4 2.6 Ghz, 1GB/XP it takes over 15s to turn a page with no feedback as to what is going on. I could understand if this is I/O but PresentationHost.exe is pegged.

I also ran this on my laptop which is running Vista... A little better but still 5s to turn a page with no feedback isn't good. Again presentationhost.exe is pegged on this computer as well.

Please tell me that this is just my computer(s) and not WPF. Does this seriously run nicely on a new computer?

re: Great WPF Applications #1: British Library Turning the Pages

Josh — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 17:33:26 GMT

I updated my graphics driver on my desktop GeForce 5200 and the speed improved by 10X on the desktop. My laptop has an integrated 64MB intel graphics chip so I'm not sure this will get any better.

re: Great WPF Applications #1: British Library Turning the Pages

tangent — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:56:18 GMT

I hate to fall on a different side other than WPF, but I think if the app is written in Flash 9, the system would be much more responsible, use less memory, and smaller. This one runs dog slow on my Core Duo laptop with 2GB of RAM

re: Great WPF Applications #1: British Library Turning the Pages

steve — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:57:50 GMT

tangent: you really must make sure you have the latest video drivers installed: get reference drivers straight from your graphics card chipset manufacturer (ATI/NVidia/etc) and avoid driver bundles from your laptop manufacturer if you can.

I don't think Flash9 really has a genuine 3D engine, so an application like this wouldn't be feasible in Flash. Also some quite heavy duty realtime 3D features are used in the BL WPF application eg vertex animation, very large texture support, specularity mapping. Maybe PaperVision for Flash can provide this when it's released but it will be a big ask.

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Mitsu פרסם את ה Control החדש שהוא כתב. מאוד מרשים, תורידו את זה ותריצו. מאחר וה Control הזה הוא בעצם

Presentation och länkar från Sommarkollo: WPF och Blend

Robert Folkesson — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:13:11 GMT

Igår körde Johan Lindfors och jag ett pass om WPF och Blend, fantastiskt kul att träffa utvecklare och

Interesting Read on Silverlight 2.0 and WPF

Conversations with the Communications Sector — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:34:35 GMT

Pete Brown has a great blog post here on Silverlight 2.0 and WPF.  Pete makes some great points

Interesting Read on Silverlight 2.0 and WPF

Noticias externas — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:02:19 GMT

Pete Brown has a great blog post here on Silverlight 2.0 and WPF.  Pete makes some great points

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I think that surface and gesture computing is going to explode over the next five years. We're going

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Sam Gentile's Blog — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:24:21 GMT

Winter has finally set in with single digit temps and minus degrees wind chills but still no snow. WPF/Avalon Adam's WPF book is out and flying off the shelves apparently ! I have been looking forward to this one as his COM Interop book is the bible there.

What role does Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) have in Line of Business (LOB) applications?

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One of the most common topics that we have discussions around in our Fasttrack reviews with ISVs is the