http://dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showID=115 Just awesome! I didn’t see anything far fetched other than they must have a great designer on staff. I wonder if the designer was doing the Blend work?
Archive for category WPF
Why WPF? This is why…
Jul 2
MiniMVC for WPF
Apr 24
Tonight I presented for the Dayton .Net Developers Group on WPF. Unlike my previous Lap Around WPF @ CONDG which was meant as a beginners guide to WPF, this time we were skipping the basics and plunging into a framework I’ve dubbed MiniMVC. MiniMVC is, primarily, a set of DependencyProperties and custom ICommand‘s which allow [...]
New Year Indeed
Jan 15
It has been quite a New Year so far. As of today, Monday January 14th 2008, I have left Speedway and the Speedy Rewards™ team and found new employment with SDS Consulting and I have new eyes courtesy of Lasik Plus of Dayton. I’d say that’s a fairly ambitious first two weeks. I’m still working [...]
Here’s one of those real-world situations that no one bothers to demo. If you are building a form or have some sort of input your gathering from the user, you’ll likely want the first input control Focused initially. You have a few ways to do this (in ascending order of recommendation): Call Focus() on the [...]
Lap Around WPF @ CONDG
Sep 28
This evening the Central Ohio .NET Developers Group was nice enough to let me present on WPF. Everything went fairly well, though it was more a test of my efficiency in WPF development than I had planned; I managed to leave behind the external hard drive that had my code-snippets, slides (both of them), and [...]
There are a lot of sites out there with great vector resources provided in Adobe Illustrator files. A few have taken a stab at creating exporters or converts, including Mike Swanson and a CodePlex.com project called XamlXporter. I tried out Mike’s XamlExport plugin and it worked fairly well, but he has some well documented items that [...]
There is a pretty cool, but curiously quiet, CodePlex project called XamlXporter that allows you to export Adobe Illustrator files/resources to WPF files. This is a great thing since WPF is young and there are a lot of free resources and tutorials for Adobe Illustrator out there, as well as, you will probably find that design firms are [...]
I’m working on a WPF app for my wife who coaches our local high school track team. One of the features she wanted was to have some images for different players and teams and, religious debate aside, I have chosen to save these in SQL Server 2005. I’m using NHibernate for all my data access which has [...]
WPF ScaleTransform Direction
Jun 28
The key to scaling your WPF elements in a specific direction other than down and to the right are the CenterX and CenterY properties of the ScaleTransform. It’s easy enough to set these manually, but that’s just lazy and asking for long term trouble. Instead, decide how you want it to animate and bind it [...]
One of my play projects with WPF is a photo viewer for the pictures we put out on http://cromwellhaus.com. One of the views is a montage of the latest photos with a random RotateTransform Angle applied to each image’s RenderTransform. Getting the view itself set up as cake, but when I attempted to apply the random angle [...]