WPF is awesome, but it requires the developer to make a pretty big shift in their thinking of UI. I’ve had a hard time explaining this to people, but last week, I had an opportunity to work through an example with Steve Gentile . That’s the basis of this walkthrough. The Scenerio Steve...
http://dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showID=115 Just awesome! I didn't see anything far fetched other than they must have a great designer on staff. I wonder if the designer was doing the Blend work?
Tonight I presented for the Dayton .Net Developers Group on WPF. Unlike my previous Lap Around WPF @ CONDG which was meant as a beginners guide to WPF, this time we were skipping the basics and plunging into a framework I've dubbed MiniMVC. MiniMVC is, primarily, a set of DependencyProperties and...
It has been quite a New Year so far. As of today, Monday January 14th 2008, I have left Speedway and the Speedy Rewards™ team and found new employment with SDS Consulting and I have new eyes courtesy of Lasik Plus of Dayton . I'd say that's a fairly ambitious first two weeks. I'm still working...
Here's one of those real-world situations that no one bothers to demo. If you are building a form or have some sort of input your gathering from the user, you'll likely want the first input control Focused initially. You have a few ways to do this (in ascending order of recommendation): Call...
This evening the Central Ohio .NET Developers Group was nice enough to let me present on WPF. Everything went fairly well, though it was more a test of my efficiency in WPF development than I had planned; I managed to leave behind the external hard drive that had my code-snippets, slides (both of them...
There are a lot of sites out there with great vector resources provided in Adobe Illustrator files. A few have taken a stab at creating exporters or converts, including Mike Swanson and a CodePlex.com project called XamlXporter . I tried out Mike's XamlExport plugin and it worked fairly well, but...
There is a pretty cool, but curiously quiet, CodePlex project called XamlXporter that allows you to export Adobe Illustrator files/resources to WPF files. This is a great thing since WPF is young and there are a lot of free resources and tutorials for Adobe Illustrator out there, as well as, you will...