Learning more about WPF and Silverlight
Posted in Examples on Jan 6th, 2010
It’s easy to forget about animated GiF’s now-a-days, what with the new tools available in Flash, Siverlight, WPF and other graphic friendly frameworks.
I’m not sure what tool DVDP used to create these GIFs, but I like watching them.
See more of DVDP’s work at http://dvdp.tumblr.com/tagged/dvdp%20done
Posted in Blend, Code Examples, Examples, WPF on Jun 26th, 2009
Part One
A common UI metaphor in recent times is the circular wait cursor or progress indicator. This article shows some easy techniques within Expression Blend 2 that simplify creating this modern UI indicator. After showing how to easily layout multiple child elements in a 360-degree pattern, I will show animation techniques for spinning, sizing and [...]
Posted in Examples, Silverlight on Jan 30th, 2009
Our UI tools constantly grow more powerful. We collect massive amounts of data from countless sources. It is tempting to try and combine the heaps of data and show them in new and interesting ways.
Pioneers in this field call this idea Data Visualization.
Want some examples?
Brain Scan
Earthquake 3D
The spread of obesity in a large social [...]
Working with WPF for more than a few months starts to change the way you think about UI. I’m sure you have experienced it yourself. It influences little things;
Why should listbox be filled with a list of strings? Couldn’t I put put a picture or video in the listbox?
Do treeviews have to be indented [...]
Posted in Examples, Silverlight, WPFe on Feb 6th, 2007
The Game of Life sample that Scott wrote last month is still popular on the Wpfwonderland site. I updated the sample to work with the February 2007 CTP. I can definitely see the performance improvements in the last drop.
Read the original article.
Just take me to the sample.
-Walt
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You’ve installed the February 2007 CTP already haven’t you? If not go here (Windows, Mac) ) and do it now.
WPFe just gets better and better. Plus decent sample applications are starting to show up and their WOW factor is high.
Latest WPFe example
Http://www.vista.si is a new Vista simulator site developed with ASP.NET AJAX and WPFe. You can move [...]
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 [...]
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 developer [...]
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 [...]
