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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...

Published 07-30-2008 1:43 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: WPF, Development, Layout, User Experience

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...

Published 07-26-2008 1:54 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: WPF, Development, User Experience

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...

Published 07-23-2008 15:26 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: WPF, Development

Experience new Silverlight skins

Corrina Barber posted a cool looking new skin for Silverlight controls, which indeed looks perfect for giving your application a sketchy appearance when in early stages of development. However, if you don't find the green color she used sketchy enough...

Published 03-24-2008 23:24 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Silverlight, Expression, Development, Layout

Silverlight 2.0: Creating a basic animation through code

In my previous Silverlight post, I mentioned Silverlight 2.0 API now allows creating animations through code. While this wasn't possible with Silverlight 1.1 Alpha [you would have to create of piece of Xaml, declaring a storyboard with all animations...

Published 03-10-2008 8:52 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Silverlight, Development

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,...

Published 03-06-2008 1:11 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Software, Silverlight, Expression, Development

How well do you know your Culture?

When doing code reviews, I often stumble upon a piece of code with some culture-specific information hard-coded in it. One example of this being month names: string [] months = { "January"...

Published 02-28-2008 14:33 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Development

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 (that's in System.Speech.Dll). Using the...

Published 02-23-2008 23:54 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: WPF, Development, Windows Vista

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...

Published 02-20-2008 10:26 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: WPF, Development, Windows Forms

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...

Published 02-10-2008 21:44 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Expression, WPF, Development, Windows Forms

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...

Published 01-22-2008 11:35 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: WPF, Development

Source Code for .NET Framework Libraries is available

It was announced with the release of Visual Studio 2008, now it's here - follow this thorough step-by-step instructions to enable this new feature; the setup involves a hotfix and some settings tweaking. The last thing to do is agree with the license...

Published 01-17-2008 10:57 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Development

Visual Studio 2008 and Business Intelligence Projects

If you're tempted to uninstall Visual Studio 2005 after installing Visual Studio 2008 (I've done that immediately), a word of caution... There is currently no support for SQL Server 2005 BI projects in Visual Studio 2008 . This means that with...

Published 11-29-2007 11:41 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: Software, Development

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...

Published 11-03-2007 8:46 by Andrej Tozon's blog

Pripete označbe: WPF, Development, Windows Forms

Simple programming language performance benchmark(C# vs. Java vs. C++ vs. Ruby)

After writting last entry on installation of .NET and Java runtimes I did a bit of searching. I noticed that one of very popular contest is .NET versus Java or C/C++ versus Java or C/C++ versus .NET (ok, I haven’t actually seen the last one in the...

Published 05-08-2006 16:48 by while true blog

Pripete označbe: Development, c#, java, ruby

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