XAML and UI, whever it is found. Phone, Surface, Silverlight or WPF
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 31st, 2007
Thanks to you, one of my articles made the top 100 wordpress list. Your emails and comments have made the first month of WpfWonderland interesting and fun. Here are your favorite articles from January WPFe Example – the game of lifeComparing WPF applications and XBAP – WhLatest version of Reflector can dissemblWPF Sample – ColorCombiPhone [...]
Today is Vista launch day. You may be excited by the prospect of running Vista on your computer or you may think it’s a ho-hum moment. I’m excited though. Every computer shipping with Vista installed is gaining a powerful new UI rendering engine, whether the consumer knows it or not. I’m even more excited that [...]
A couple days ago I wrote about the free WPF datagrid component from Exceed. This is good news for WPF developers for a couple reasons. One, we get a practical datagrid to use in our applications. Two, the datagrid is a good showcase for WPF. We can see what kinds of components can be written in WPF. I [...]
[Revised July 6th 2009 – Updated to reflect changes as of .Net 3.5 SP1] Summary of the differences between XBAP and Standalone WPF applications. Standalone WPF applications A standalone WPF application is one that is compiled into an EXE and placed on the users computer via any of the standard installation techniques. If installed to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 27th, 2007
Jonathon pointed out a flaw in my BAML article. I made it sound like downloading the latest version of Reflector was all you had to do. That’s not true, you also have to download another tool. I guess wasn’t too clear in explaining how Reflector creates XAML from BAML. Here is a more detailed roadmap. Lutz Roeder has created a [...]
Would you like to see an odd little movie? Japanese design house Bascule released the first ever short film produced with WPF — Dominoken. This offbeat little film, featuring a cast of 2D/3D digital actors follows the trials and tribulations of a Japanese short order cook facing a chaotic night of dominoes, sushi, rice bowls, and [...]
A frequent complaint about WPF from potential WPF adopters is the lack of a real datagrid. WPF has the powerful layout panel (Grid) but it a layout element only. Its real mission is to provide a way for you to organize your UI elements, not show your database data. Traditionally third parties come along and fill [...]
I can’t tell you how many .NET developers use Reflector. But I’d guess it’s about 99.9999999%. Lutz Roeder continuously updates Reflector as new .NET frameworks are shipped. XAML Source When you build a WPF application inside Visual Studio the compiler creates a Binary Application Markup (BAML) file. This is a binary representation of XAML auto-genned by Visual [...]
WPF and charts are a perfect match. WPF can render amazing graphics, so it is likely that many component developers are working on WPF charting tools. I found a WPF prototype (SwordfishCharts) on Code Project that is fun to play with. Interesting Features Tracking Cursor – point on chart follow the mouse Zoom -right mouse [...]
Posted in Silverlight, WPFe on Jan 21st, 2007
You’re excited about WPFe and install the SDK. You start working on your first application in Visual Studio. “Hey, where’s the intellisense?” A fresh install of the WPF/E(Sliverlight) SDK doesn’t support intellisense. Don’t fret, I’ve found the solution. The Fix Copy the WPFe schema file to your Visual Studio folder. The following assumes you installed [...]
