XAML and UI, whever it is found. Phone, Surface, Silverlight or WPF
Posted in Silverlight, Tools, WPF on Sep 23rd, 2009
Shazzam development is moving again Shazzam is changing. There hasn’t been much improvement to Shazzam this year and that’s a shame. Especially since there is an influx of Silverlight developers exploring the benefits that pixel shaders bring to their projects. Many of you have discovered Shazzam via enthusiastic support from the WPF and Silverlight community. [...]
Posted in Silverlight, Tools on Aug 23rd, 2009
Shazzam, my pixel shader utility continues to show up in books, blogs and articles. The latest sighting is in: Silverlight 3 Programmer’s Reference By J. Ambrose Little, Jason Beres, Grant Hinkson, Devin Rader, Joe Croney Read an excerpt Custom Effects Silverlight opens up a world of creativity possibilities by supporting custom High Level Shading [...]
Posted in Silverlight, Tools, WPF on Jul 14th, 2009
Pixel Shader Effects are starting to go mainstream. Now that Silverlight 3, WPF and Expression Blend support Shader Effects I expect to see a blossoming of interesting effects libraries. A case in point. Charles, over at digitalepiphania.com has an new pixel shader that is worth investigating. His shader effect converts any XAML visual into a [...]
Posted in Silverlight, Tools on Jun 21st, 2009
Erno de Weerd has released a plug-in for Windows Live Writer that simplifies inserting a Silverlight application into your WordPress blog post. It’s works in conjunction with Tim Heuer’s Silverlight WordPress plug-in. Learn more about the Erno’s SL to WordPress plug-in. It Works for Me I installed the plug-in today and it seems to work [...]
Developers love to create utility tools. When you find that you want to simplify you programming life you look for a tool to solve the problem. If you can’t find one, you start dreaming how to build one yourself. Whenever a new standard like SQL or XML is adopted the utility writers are immediately on [...]
I taught a WPF class at Microsoft in September. During the Expression Blend demo I ran into this odd bug. [Update November 19th, 2007] This has been fixed in the .NET 3.5 Release Version. I thought it was my video driver or my DPI settings so last week I spent a couple fruitless hours trying [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Curious to see the styles for any WPF framework control? If so, take a look at this simple and free utility call StyleSnooper. Originally posted by Lester Lobo and revamped by Ælij. What does it do? The first step is to point StyleSnooper at any WPF assembly. It will parse all the public, concrete, non-generic classes [...]
