The following are the links to the materials I used on my talks on this year's NTK08 conference : What's new in Windows Presentation Foundation 3.5? PowerPoint Code/Demo Solution [C#] Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 [2+hr Hands-On-Lab] Manual SQL Server part [presented by Matija Lah ,...
Here's some notes on first experience with Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1: Installation Runtime - quick, smooth. Like it's supposed to be. Tools for Visual Studio 2008 - if running Alpha version of the tools, you'll have to uninstall it first. During the install, the VS2008 DVD might be required...
.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 SpeechSynthesizer class you can make your computer...
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 text in WPF's RichTextBox. You can however...
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 interoperability features make this kind of...
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 Blend can be found on the 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 too. Try this for example... Start up your Blend...
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"...