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Friday, August 15, 2008 3:28 PM

Creating splash screens with Expression Designer

Did you know you can create cool looking splash screens for your WPF application right there with the Expression Designer ? Of course you did. Expression Designer provides you with all you need to create free-shaped, part-transparent, drop-shadowed graphics
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Monday, August 11, 2008 2:03 PM

Splash Screen in WPF 3.5 SP1

Besides improving application startup time, .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 also allows developers to add a splash screen to WPF applications. The splash screen is shown using native code, even before WPF application starts to load. In reality this means the splash
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 6:21 PM

Label.Target Pt.2: The return of the (not so) attached property

Following my previous example , this is another experiment with the Label.Target property. Suppose you want to restrict user’s progression with data input on a form by disabling some crucial input fields, which input depends on some other fields on the
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:43 PM

Label.TargetProperty as a Source

One of probably most underused features in windows desktop UI development world is got to be the use of a Label as an accessor to its pair control. I rarely see developers using this possibility to enhance keyboard UI navigation. A couple of things changed
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Friday, July 25, 2008 4:54 PM

Do it with Style!

In my previous post I've shown how to create a named brush resource in WPF, which can be used and reused through whole application. Although I gave a brush a meaningful name (WindowBackgroundBrush), it can as well be used to paint areas other than
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 6:26 AM

In the beginning, it was Black

This is the first post of what I would like to believe will be a series of thoughts on creating a good User Experience with Windows Presentation Foundation. I have no idea where this will take me, but I'll start with a color. You like black? We've got
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