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I’ve seen numerous questions regarding data binding to Enums, together with many solutions on how to do it, but the question I’m asking myself is – do I really want to bind anything to an Enum? I like to think about Enums purely as a coding aid – to help programmer code with some descriptive names instead...
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For a WPF developer, crossing over to Silverlight development can be a pretty mindboggling adventure. I mean - if you’re currently engaged with Windows Forms or ASP.NET and seeking new advancements, Silverlight would (should?) be a logical step forward in your life as a developer. There are, of course...
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Realizing that i don’t have any decent photo slideshow player installed on my machine I thought I’d install photoSuru and see what it can do for me. While it’s a beautiful subscription-based WPF photo viewer, built on a Syndicated Client Experiences (SCE) Starter Kit , it was something else that caught...
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If you like the way how Windows Vista shows your account picture on the Login screen, or how Windows Live Messenger’s display picture looks like on, you have probably already thought about putting something like it in your Silverlight application, either for a login screen or just to display a picture...
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Been playing with a Songsmith a little today. It’s a music generation software, but with additional twist: you’re doing the vocals and Songsmith stands in as your backing band. It’s actually following your singing by choosing the right chords to match your voice in real time! Using...
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Windows Presentation Foundation je prinesel bogat način izgradnje namiznih aplikacij in z malo trikov tudi spletnih ( Silverlight ). Podjetje DotNetSolutions je v sodelovanju z ekipo DPE ( Developer and Platform Evangelism ) pripravilo namizno aplikacijo , s katero lahko brskamo po wikipediji na malo...
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Vsako leto na jesenskem srečanju MSDN in Technet predstavimo najnovejše produkte in tehnologije, ki pomagajo razvijalcem izboljšati razvoj aplikacij, omogočajo učinkovito delo v skupini, prinašajo .NET Framework v nova okolja itd., prav tako pa predstavimo novosti za sistemske administratorje...
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Ravnokar se je končal prvi del keynote predavanja v drugem delu PDCja. Danes smo imeli priložnost prvič javno videli Office na spletu, ki bo na voljo v okviru Office 14. Lahko rečem le tole: poslušalci so imeli odprta usta, ko smo si ogledovali Word, Powerpoint, Excel in OneNote v okviru spletnih strani...
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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 and I bet the the WPF splash screen support...
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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 screen would show immediately when application...
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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 just released a prototype of his VisualStateManager...
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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 form. There’s more than a couple of ways for doing...
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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 about this mechanism when going from Windows...
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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 window backgrounds. Naming brushes this way is more...
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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 black. Black How about using it as a background...