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Download Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta

Get it here . Discuss amongst yourselves at the forum . Don't miss Guy Burstein's guided tour . Here's the official word: Visual Studio 2008 With Visual Studio 2008, developers and development organizations have the tools that enable them to be more productive,

Data Validation in 3.5

A cool new feature in the Data area in 3.5 is the support for IDataErrorInfo. Let's take a look at the data validation model in 3.5 by starting with a memory refresher of that in 3.0. We end with a section that discusses how to choose between the different

UIElement3D - Input, Focus, and Eventing support in 3D

One of the great new additions in 3.5 is UIElement3D, which brings input, focus, and eventing to the 3D space. To use UIElement3D, you can use the two new classes that derive from it, ModelUIElement3D and ContainerUlElement3D, or you can create your own

Annotated FlowDocument Viewer with Comments Pane

A new WPF 3.5 feature in the Annotations area is the capability to match annotations with the corresponding annotated objects. For example, you can now implement a document viewing application that has a comments pane, where the paragraph that contains

What's New in WPF 3.5 - Going Deeper

In the last post we gave you the list of new WPF 3.5 features . If you're looking for more details, check out the What's New in WPF 3.5 doc on MSDN .

What's New in WPF in the .NET FX 3.5 Beta 2 release

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and the .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 are now available! You can download them here . Read more about this release on Somasegar's annoucement post . What's new in WPF? Here's a non-comprehensive list: Application Model o WPF builds

Expert advice on XmlDataProvider usage

I came across the following Q&A from the technical chat transcript from several months ago. Our WPF data binding expert Sam Bent was the one providing the great answers. It’s excellent information about the XmlDataProvider and I thought I’d share

WPF perf tool available as standalone MSI!

To make it easier for everyone, we have posted the WPF perf tool mentioned here as a standalone install. Here is the x86 and the x64 version. Some people have run into the following error when loading the app: The component 'Microsoft.WpfPerformance.AddToolDialog'

Binding to Web Services

In WPF, you bind to objects returned by web service method calls the same way you bind to any other objects. To demonstrate, we’ll walk through a simple application that consumes the MSDN/TechNet Publishing System (MTPS) Content Service, discussed here

Latest version of WPFPerf.exe available

The latest version of the WPF Performance Suite has just be released in the Windows SDK for Windows Server and .NET Framework 3.5 ! If you install the SDK, you'll find WpfPerf.msi , which lets you install the latest perf suite. The accompanying “Performance

How do I programmatically interact with template-generated elements? Part II

This post shows you how to find a named element within a DataTemplate. In Part I , we discussed how to find a named element within a ControlTemplate. That was fairly simple; you’d call Template.FindName on the control that the ControlTemplate has been

Wha' Happened Part Two: More Property Changes in WPF

Introduction Windows Presentation Foundation features quite a variety of different mechanisms that provide notifications of when a property changes its value. These mechanisms come from several different feature areas: from data binding, from the WPF

How do I programmatically interact with template-generated elements? Part I

You may have a scenario that requires you to find an element within a ControlTemplate. To do that, you use Template.FindName. Say you have a simple ControlTemplate for a Button, like the following: < Style TargetType = " {x:Type Button} " > <

WPF individual sample downloads!

Great news! You can now download WPF samples individually. From the WPF samples page on MSDN , just go to the sample topic of your choice, click the “Download sample” link on the page, and follow the instructions! It’s fast and easy! Note that if you

Big 'ol WPF Animation Wizard Sample

I just created a sample that serves as a walkthrough wizard for teaching WPF animations. Besides teaching you the basics of WPF animations in an interactive and relatively entertaining way, there are a bunch of cool effects integrated into the wizard
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