XAML and UI, whever it is found. Phone, Surface, Silverlight or WPF
Posted in .NET 3.0, Silverlight, WPFe on Jan 21st, 2007
We haven’t even begun to see the power of WPF/E(Silverlight) applications. Wpfe is still in infancy (not even in beta release) and programmers are making their first exploratory applications. Trying ideas out before buying into that new technology. Much of the web communities attention is focused on AJAX, which is changing the way we think about web [...]
Posted in Silverlight, WPFe on Jan 17th, 2007
The new WPF/E(Silverlight) Developer Content site is starting to get some instructional content. Their latest post answers one of the questions that I get asked frequently. How do I create a reflection in WPFe? Find out how here -Walt
Posted in WPF on Jan 14th, 2007
The latest version of Visual Studio (codename Orcas) is available on the download servers at Microsoft. I talked to Mark Boulter earlier this week and he says that the new WPF designer bits (codename Cider) didn’t make it into the latest build. He said they barely missed the deadline. I suspect that they’ll be in the February [...]
Occasionally the layout engine in WPF can arrange your elements in an unexpected pattern. The Goal Let’s say you want to have a simple form for data entry. You want some instruction text ( static multi-line) at the top of the form. You also want a multi-line TextBox for data entry. Sounds simple so far. You want the form to look like [...]
WPF has design tools for designers (Expression Suite) and tools for developers (Visual Studio). There is a new video training site just for designers that launched this week. ContentPresenter.com Started by the amazing Lee Brimelow, ContentPresenter is targeted directly at the designer community. Lee has a ton of sites, including the wonderful Flash tutorial site [...]
Posted in WPF on Jan 10th, 2007
Apple designers create spectacular user interfaces. They’ve been doing if for years, and they continue to get better. If you want to improve your design skills, if you want to bring the same elegance to your application you should study Apple products. If you are a software developer or designer pay close attention to how [...]
Pssst. <whisper>I’ll let you you in on a little secret. There are people out there who know how to create a beautiful UI. They’re called designers. I’d just as soon call them artists.</whisper> Ask a gathering of programmers about creative UI and most will tell you that their design skills are still back at the 3rd grade level. Good thing Microsoft is letting the [...]
Posted in .NET 3.0, Silverlight, WPF, WPFe on Jan 8th, 2007
If you are an ASP.NET developer it’s likely that you’ve read some of Scott Guthrie’s blog posts. Perhaps you’ve seen him talking about ASP.NET at PDC, ASP.NET Connections or VSLive. He’s certainly knows ASP.NET! Scott worked on early versions of IIS, created the ASP.NET team with Mark Anders and wrote many key parts of ASP.NET. Scott’s blog is [...]
Every week I find something new and interesting in WPF. Occasionally it’s something big, like the week I labored over my first 3D application. Other times it’s smaller, like that little aha moment, when I realized that the way I’ve been thinking about events is wrong. That treating events like I did in .NET 2.0 works but [...]
You’re a coder. You’ve seen a few intriguing WPF examples. Now you want to start splitting pixels and crafting 3D splines. You want to start writing your own code. What do you do? Microsoft Dev Tools Developers need tools for creating applications. You can use notepad and the SDK and build apps or you can install the Visual Studio Extensions and have VS help [...]
