XAML and UI, whever it is found. Phone, Surface, Silverlight or WPF
Posted in Silverlight on Apr 9th, 2009
Al Pascual has created a nice Silverlight plug-in that visually pinpoints your recent website visitors on a map. You can see who is on your website or blog and can be added to any website. Will keep track of the hits since the day you install it. I’ll create more custom reports as this [...]
Posted in Surface on Apr 9th, 2009
Seems like the season for contests. Here’s a UK contest with a new twist. You’ve got to create an application for the finance industry and it must target Microsoft Surface. Prizes totaling ~$15,000 USD Bank branches of the future could soon have a Microsoft Surface like ours. The School of Informatics and Microsoft [...]
Posted in Blend, Blend Tips, WPF on Apr 4th, 2009
A couple years ago I wrote a post regarding the WPF VisualBrush. As part of that post I discussed the TileBrush. TileBrush is abstract and defines a number of useful properties for creating a repeating pattern. For example you could set the source of the ImageBrush to a picture of a flower, then set properties [...]
