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Getting Ready for Mix -
I am very lucky to say that I'll be at Mix 2010 next week. As excited as I am about the event itself, I'm perhaps more excited knowing that I'll come back with the tools to get cracking on development for Windows Phone 7: The development platforms Read More......(
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Creating a Weather Gadget for Windows 7 -
In this article we will see how you can develop a Weather gadget for Windows 7 which uses Yahoo Weather API for fetching Weather data. The application will also have some of the latest exciting features of Windows 7 like Thumbnail Toolbar and Progress bar.
Mafor update for Ab2d.ReaderWmf published -
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A WPF UML Editor -
PlantUML Editor, built using WPF and .NET 3.5, is an IDE for drawing UML diagram using the amazing PlantUML tool. If you have used PlantUML before, you know you can code UML diagrams super fast without struggling with a designer environment. You can *write* UML diagrams in plain English, following a simple syntax and get diagrams generated on-the-fly.
My program at #MIX10 -
Getting ready to fly to Vegas and MIX10 is really an exciting time! It is also a very busy time, because we are working on a few projects that will be shown on stage, I have my presentation to prepare, and of course as always the book? though these days Read More......(
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Windows 7 Multitouch Application Development (Part - I) -
Windows 7 came up with lots of goodies including better resource management, better performance, jumplist management, multitouch functionality & many more. Here I will discuss on developing a simple multitouch application using .Net 3.5 SP1.
Simplest Way to Implement Multilingual WPF Application -
Easiest way to handle Globalization in your WPF application.
Streaming Silverlight media from a Dropbox.com account -
Stating the problem
I need a place to store my streaming media files. I used the Silverlight streaming site for awhile, but Microsoft Azure came along and killed off the site. Azure is a more general purpose application hosting Read More......(
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Asynchronous Method Invocation -
Here I am showing how you can invoke a method asynchronously using delegates and AsyncCallback.
WPF Studio 2010.1 will require .NET 3.5 SP1 -
We?re currently hard at work on WPF Studio 2010.1 , which we hope to launch in the next couple months. We plan on it including a number of enhancements to existing products along with a brand new unannounced product. Now that .NET 4.0 is almost Read More......(
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Schedule for my session at MIX10 -
Microsoft has published the schedule for the MIX10 sessions. I have a sweet spot, and I dearly hope that it stays this way (Last year I had a great spot, but it was changed last minute and then I had a much better one, ?competing? against Vertigo and Read More......(
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Polyline in WPF -
A polyline is a collection of connected straight lines. This article demonstrates how to create a polyline in WPF and XAML.
Show Parent Child Records in Windows Form like Ms Access -
In this article, I am going to teach you how to show records in a hierarchical view.
Recent Presentation at the Atlanta Silverlight Meetup -
Last week I got the opportunity to present at the Atlanta Silverlight Meetup . I presented a talk entitled 'Thinking Outside the Battleship Gray Box' primarily focused on UI manipulations. Here was the synopsis: As developers, we?ve grown accustomed Read More......(
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4 Free WPF Utilities I Use Every Day, that come with source! -
Here are 4 WPF utilities I use almost daily, that also have the excellent property of coming with source-code included. Kaxaml Kaxaml is a great tool for quick experimentation with snippets of XAML. The editor has intellisense, and the app itself is gorgeous Read More......(
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Scrolling Text Marquee Control -
The following article is a simple sample of a scrolling text marquee control for a Windows Forms application.
SyntaxEditor for WPF adds IME (input method editor) support -
The most recent release of WPF Studio, 2009.2 build 515, added complete IME editing support to the SyntaxEditor control . This has been a highly requested feature item so we?re pleased to introduce it. What is IME? The input method editor (IME) Read More......(
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Polygon in WPF -
A polygon is a series of connected lines which is a closed shape. A closed shape is a shape that has same start point and end point. This article demonstrates how to create and use a polygon in WPF using XAML.
Layered Architecture for WPF Applications -
Layering is a very useful tool in structuring object-oriented software systems. It helps to organize the types and namespaces into a large-scale structure. The article shows how a Layered Architecture can be applied to a WPF application.
Building a GUI Editor -
In this article I'll show you how to build a simple GUI Editor using C#.
Cropping or Clipping in WPF -
The Clip property of an element (defined in the UIElement class) is used to clip a region and represents the geometry that defines the content of an element.
ZoomContentControl ? Adding pin overlays that anchor to a location -
The ZoomContentControl is a control we added to our Navigation for WPF product with the WPF Studio 2009.2 release. It makes it easy for an end user to scroll through any sort of large content. WPF Studio 2009.2 build 515 (released this week) adds Read More......(
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Move windows form without Border -
At time its necessary that we want to move a form without border. So here is the solution to move that type of form.
WPF Studio 2009.2 build 515 released -
We?ve just made the WPF Studio 2009.2 build 515 maintenance release available. This maintenance release includes some new features and bug fixes. Notable new features include ZoomContentControl overlays and SyntaxEditor IME input support Read More......(
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Path in WPF -
A graphics path is a set of connected lines, curves, and other simple graphics objects, including rectangles, ellipses, and text. This article demonstrates how to create and use paths in WPF and XAML.
