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You may have seen in my previous post a series of coordinates with a combination of letters to form one really long string in the PathGeometry. This string is actually a syntax that evaluates to various Segment objects (ArcSegment, LineSegment, etc)....
By now, WPF's animation is probably one of the biggest topics in the .NET community. WPF provides so many ways to do all sorts of neat animations. I wanted to start to discuss some of these features. For intstance, below is an animation of an ellipse...
WPF elements have several cool properties, one of with being LayoutTransform. LayoutTransform transforms the current layout. This can be used to do things like scaling, rotating, or skewing. A layout transform, such as when rotating an object, rotates...
When working with WPF, there is an adjustment with how objects are created that you may not be used to in other environments. Suppose you have the following window: < Grid > < StackPanel > < WrapPanel Margin ="5"> < ComboBox...
Recently, when adding WPF features to a windows class library I created, I ran into an issue where there was an error with the InitializeComponent method of the WPF user control in Visual Studio 2008. I couldn't figure out why this was an error, as...
It may seem like with all of these new technologies, that Silverlight and AJAX will replace ASP.NET as the way to render content over the browser. However, that is kind of a misnomer, because Silverlight and AJAX are technologies meant to enhance ASP...
Properties in WPF work much differently. When creating a property, the new dependency model is used. I'm not going to go in-depth into this; there's plenty of resources using it. Oftentimes, dependency properties are public static fields of type...
Grids work a little differently than tables do, and I was surprised as how it worked. I think it's a better construct, but it can be a little more verbose than to a table-like counterpart. Let's look at it in more detail and you will see why....
The popup control is a new primitive control in the WPF framework. It allows a container control within the popup to suddenly appear when some action is taken (such as a button click). For instance, below is an instance of a popup: <Popup x:Name="ConnectPopup"...
I've been working with Expression Blend, in creating XAML-based applications using the Windows Presentation Framework. I wanted to start writing a few articles about the usages of some of the elements, such as the popup. It seemed different to me...
