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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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Saturday, August 09, 2008 12:50 AM

VSM4WPF

While next release of WPF (3.5 SP1) won't yet align with Silverlight's " Parts & States Model "  by not introducing VisualStateManager into its API, it's good to know that VSM is definitely coming to WPF. Even more, John Gossman has
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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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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 5:11 PM

Mix'n'stuff

As expected, a lot of stuff was shown and discussed on the MIX08 keynote today: eight - Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 ( download ): better standards compliance, backward compatible mode, faster faster JavaScript implementation, embedded debugging tools,
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Saturday, February 23, 2008 3:54 PM

Make your application speak

.NET Framework 2.0 simplified the way of playing audio files from desktop applications. .NET Framework 3.0 takes this one step further by introducing the speech API, residing in the System.Speech namespace (it's basically a wrapper around Microsoft SAPI
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:26 AM

Paste as Xaml Visual Studio Add-In

Common Windows Presentation Foundation controls don't necessarily provide an intuitive path for upgrading from their Windows Forms equivalents. Take, for example, the RichTextBox control - there is no Rtf property for setting and getting RTF formatted
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Sunday, February 10, 2008 1:44 PM

You've got mail: Windows Forms & WPF interop

One of my favorite samples when talking about WPF is showing a rotating 3D letter ' e ' in a Windows Forms application. You know, something like those "you've got mail" computer messages, seen in many Hollywood movies. Windows Forms/WPF
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 3:35 AM

WPF tutorials

If you're starting your development with Windows Presentation Foundation, head over to windowsclient.net , as they're running a great video tutorial series on WPF app development. Another exhaustive tutorials on designing WPF applications with Expression
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Friday, December 07, 2007 3:42 PM

Gradient eyedropper in Expression Blend

Gradient eyedropper proved to be one of the fun features for presenting Windows Presentation Foundation / Expression Blend . While fun for presenting, its ability to capture the color spectrum of the mouse-crossed area is useful in real-time designing
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Saturday, November 03, 2007 12:46 AM

WPF/WinForms Binding Pt.2: Value converters

In previous WPF vs Windows Forms binding post , we left off with pretty useless text binding example - we made the form's title reflect whatever user writes in the textbox: <Window x:Class="BindingSample.Window1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 8:50 PM

WPF: When's a Button not a Button

This is a button: < Button Name ="button"> Button </ Button > This is a button too: < ToolBar > < Button Name ="toolbarButton"> Toolbar button </ Button > </ ToolBar > Or is it? Let's declare
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