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A Simple but Robust WPF Report Engine, Part 1

EggHeadCafe.com New Articles, March 19, 2010
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a simple WPF report engine that is robust and one can use it in practical applications  read moreBy siyamand ayubi...

Creating your First Crystal Report for Use in a .NET Application

ASPAlliance.com - The #1 ASP.NET Community, March 16, 2010
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Have you ever had to create a custom report within an application you have written for a customer? Most developers have, and there are two schools of thought on how developers normally perform this ta...

Make a WPF circular progress indicator / loading animation

EggHeadCafe.com New Articles, March 11, 2010
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how to make a WPF circular progress indicator that resembles Silverlights loading animation  read moreBy Michael Detras...

What’s Wrong With This Code #24

K. Scott Allen, February 11, 2010
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Sometimes the simplest solution introduces a bug. Lets say there is a ListBox in WPF (or Silverlight) displaying bowlers* and their bowling scores: <ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding Bowlers}" &...

Working on a new product

ISerializable, February 10, 2010
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Ive been heads down in the past few weeks working on a new product. a public alpha\beta will be out end of this month. It is in the field of unit testing. Can you guess what it is? hints: There...

Wanted: WPF Designer

ISerializable, February 9, 2010
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Im looking for a skilled freelance WPF designer for short gigs, that can help design beautiful and usable wpf control layouts and UI behaviors,  and images to be used in and around those controls...

Data Binding, Currency and the WPF TreeView

Marquee de Sells: Chriss insight outlet, February 7, 2010
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I was building a little WPF app to explore a hierarchical space (OData, if you must know), so of course, I was using the TreeView. And since I'm a big fan of data binding, of course I've got a hiera...

Introduction to Prism with the RadControls for WPF (Webinar Resources)

the telerik blogs, February 4, 2010
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here. Webinar Resources Download: Project & Powerpoint Slides This download contains the project I started with in the webinar along with thecompleted version. Also included are the powerpoint sl...

Server-side resizing with WPF: now with JPG

More Whidbey stuff, January 21, 2010
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Ive shown before how to generate thumbnails from ASP.NET server code using the WPF media APIs instead of GDI+ (which is unsupported when used in server code). In the previous article, Ive been gener...

creating a custom WPF control with theming

EggHeadCafe.com New Articles, January 20, 2010
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creating a custom control requires some coding and creating a generic theme for your control for WPF  read moreBy Michael Detras...

Telerik XAML controls Q3 2009 SP2 is now live

the telerik blogs, January 15, 2010
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The Q3 2009 SP2 of RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF has just been released and the files are available for download under the users' accounts - both trial and dev versions. Full Re...

Theres No Such Thing As Too Much Euchre! (Matt Gertz)

The Visual Basic Team, December 18, 2009
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Oh, no!  I hear you cry, not another blog about Euchre! Well, I do like the game, to be sure.  But, more importantly, the Euchre scenario enables me to try out any new technologies on a reas...

WPF RadDocking Overview

the telerik blogs, December 11, 2009
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Its been a while since the Q3 2009 release. Lots of controls have been added in our toolbox for WPF. One of them is considered as a final official release of RadDocking control for WPF. We have m...

Resizing images from the server using WPF/WIC instead of GDI+

More Whidbey stuff, December 11, 2009
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I and many others have written about resizing images using GDI+, or rather its .NET faade, System.Drawing. It works. But there is just this one sentence at the bottom of the documentation: Cautio...

Better XAML By Farr: Compiled Resources in Application Development

Clarity Blogs: ASP.NET, December 1, 2009
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One of the benefits of developing in WPF is the direct relation a developer and a designer now have.  A designer can create styles and templates in XAML and the developer can easily tie back end ...

Why SketchFlow is not a mockup software

Code Climber, November 26, 2009
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After almost one year of using Balsamiq I decided to give Blend SketchFlow a try. After using it in one project, I realized its not a sketching/mockup tool. And here Im telling you why. My definition...

The core WPF classes

Fabrice's weblog, November 11, 2009
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Jeremy Alles proposes a nice tour of the core WPF classes. It comes with a class diagram and quick descriptions.I'll keep a link to it here for reference. It's the kind of document I'll refer to sever...

Telerik XAML Controls Q3 2009 Release

the telerik blogs, November 10, 2009
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  It has been another quarter for the XAML teams here at Telerik. During this time we worked on producing new tools and significant new features demanded by our customers. The results of our ef...

How to style WPF Calendar control to emulate Outlook

EggHeadCafe.com New Articles, November 4, 2009
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WPF calendar control like Outlook month view and add items.  read moreBy Michael Detras...

WPF 4 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)

ScottGus Blog, October 27, 2009
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[In addition to blogging, I am now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. You can follow me on Twitter at: twitter.com/scottgu (@scottgu is my twitter name)] This is the eleventh in...

TFS Work Item Manager and TFS Project Dashboard Beta 2 Now Available For Download!

the telerik blogs, October 22, 2009
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Just a month after releasing the quite popular Telerik TFS Tools (built by Imaginet Resources with RadControls for WPF), a fresh new update of the TFS Work Item Manager and TFS Project Dashboard is wa...

Mozilla and Microsoft work together on WPF\ClickOnce plugins

Brad Abrams, October 21, 2009
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  Recently some friends mentioned that they saw Firefox had block-listed some Microsoft WPF\ClickOnce add-ons. As Mike Shaver (VP Engineering for the Mozilla) noted in his blog post, this action ...

Telerik announces second Beta release of RadControls for Silverlight/WPF Q3 2009

the telerik blogs, October 20, 2009
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Our second Beta release is now available for download and it once again includes brand new controls as well as major new additions. RadGridView now features Vertical and Horizontal UI Virtualization w...

Learn how to handle printing in WPF

EggHeadCafe.com New Articles, October 20, 2009
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Michael Detras shows us various ways to print and preview documents in Windows Presentation Foundation.  read moreBy Michael Detras...

A plea to my developer brethren about designer/designers

Method ~ of ~ failed, October 19, 2009
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Since we appear to be in another revolution on user interface (UI) design and user experience (UX), Ive seen a lot of people, companies, sites refer to the designer-developer workflow, including Micro...

In this webcast, we look at some new developer features in Windows 7 while discussing programming with the Scenic Ribbon and Windows Web Services, and we examine the new features of

MSDN: BizTalk Server, October 16, 2009
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Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), including the Data Grid, which makes it easy to build a rich user experience....

WPF Wonders: Building Control Templates

DevX: .NET Feed, October 6, 2009
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WPF's properties and styles let you change a control's appearance. Templates let you modify a control at a much more fundamental level, changing the components that make up the control and the way it ...

Making a Step chart in RadChart for Silverlight and WPF

the telerik blogs, October 6, 2009
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So a customer emailed into our office yesterday asking about whether RadChart for Silverlight supported a Step chart type. Well, while we do have a boatload of chart types already, Step is currently n...

Making your application sparkle with Windows 7

Somasegars WebLog, October 3, 2009
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The launch of Windows 7 is just around the corner.  Whether you prefer managed or unmanaged development, you can take advantage of Windows 7 features with new APIs and libraries to make your...

Win7 Multi-touch. Why wait until WPF4?

<ChristophDotNet, September 23, 2009
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WPF 4 is going to fully integrate Win 7s multi-touch capabilities. with Windows 7 being RTM, you dont have to wait for WPF 4 to be released for developing multi-touch demos. You can get started today ...

WPF And The Model View View Model Pattern

EggHeadCafe.com New Articles, September 22, 2009
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A example on how to create a WPF application using the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) design pattern.  read moreBy Michael Detras...

WPF Control Verifier Tool Version 0.1 Released

MSDN: ASP.NET, August 30, 2009
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WPF Control Verifier is a tool that verifies the correctness of WPF controls. This tool is geared towards WPF control developers with the goal of providing a set of verifications that all controls can...

WPF Wonders: Transformations (and Robots!)

DevX: .NET Feed, August 18, 2009
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WPF's transformations make it easy to move, scale, or rotate objects, and simplify building complex moveable 3D shapes....

How to avoid flicker when resuming video playback inside MediaElement

Roland Weigelt, August 11, 2009
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I just fought with some noticeable flicker during the first few frames when resuming a paused video inside a WPF MediaElement. It turned out that setting the ScrubbingEnabled property to True fixed th...

WPF Wonders: 3D Drawing with Textures, Transformations, and Realism

DevX: Latest XML Articles, August 10, 2009
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To build realism into 3D scenes, you need to draw with the appropriate materialsand transformations help make the drawing process much simpler....

Telerik, Oslo and RAD Make My Application" button

the telerik blogs, July 31, 2009
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I always joke to our team that our tools need to be so easy that Zarko (Co-CEO of Telerik)and I can build an application by pressing the RAD Make My Application" button. A while ago some of you also ...

WPF Wonders: 3D Drawing

DevX: Latest XML Articles, July 27, 2009
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WPF makes drawing three-dimensional scenes quick and easy....

Cascading Implicit Styles in WPF

Clarity Blogs: ASP.NET, July 27, 2009
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I was all set to write a post detailing a cumbersome workaround for getting implicit styles to cascade in WPF, when I figured out theres an easier way. Actually, I think its probably common knowledge ...

Small EF4/WPF bug that bit me in the butt during my VTdotNET presentation

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., July 23, 2009
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I made a big effort not to allow my What’s New in VS2010 presentation at Vermont.NET to turn into a What’s New in EF4 session. However, while I was demoing the Extension Manager, I used th...

How to Use Data Templates in WPF

MSDN: BizTalk Server, July 21, 2009
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Watch this video to learn how to bind data to WPF controls in data templates. We will use the Binding markup extension to describe which class members are bound to which control properties. We'll also...

How to consume a Web Service in WPF Application?

The Code Project Latest Articles, July 21, 2009
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This article explains how to consume a Web Service in WPF Windows application. It requires binding of WPF controls to data coming from a web service....

Click Suite, Auckland Museum & the Hybridiser

Nigel Parkers Outside Line, July 17, 2009
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Click Suite has a long history of awesome interactive new media projects. Their front end weapon of choice has almost exclusively been Flash. Zef Fugaz has always been one for pushing the user expe...

WPF/Silverlight : RadChart - solving issues with the X axis labels.

the telerik blogs, July 14, 2009
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As you may already know, since the invention of the chart control there are some cornerstone cases when most of the implementations do not perform well. One of these is the arrangement of labels on th...

Simplify Your XAML with Resources and Control Templates

DevX: .NET Feed, July 10, 2009
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Although it's tempting to style your WPF controls directly in their containing XAML files or through code, placing styling in control templates stored in external resource dictionaries offers a robust...

Simplify Your XAML with Resources and Control Templates

DevX: Latest XML Articles, July 10, 2009
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Although it's tempting to style your WPF controls directly in their containing XAML files or through code, placing styling in control templates stored in external resource dictionaries offers a robust...

Report writer for WPF. Long-expected tool.

ASP.NET Announcements, July 3, 2009
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Stimulsoft Company today announces the release of a new product Stimulsoft Reports.Wpf the reporting tool for WPF. Stimulsoft Reports.Wpf is the reporting tool that allows creating feature-rich r...

WPF Localization Guidance Paper Posted on CodePlex

Rick Strahls WebLog, July 1, 2009
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Im happy to announce that my WPF Localization paper went live a couple of days ago on CodePlex. You can find it here: http://wpflocalization.codeplex.com/  (click on Downloads its published onl...

WPF Chart Controls!!!

Federal Developer Weblog, June 25, 2009
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NOTE: This was cross posted from here. YES!  WPF officially has charting controls now:).  Theres a new release of the WPF Toolkit: WPF Toolkit - June 2009 Release Bug fixes PLUS CHART CON...

Need a visualization of "M" in your programs?

Marquee de Sells: Chriss insight outlet, June 23, 2009
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If you want to display "M" languages or values, Ceyhun Ciper from sixpairs.com has got you covered with the MGraph Object Model Display Library for WPF. It's as simple as this:Canvas canvas = new ...

Better XAML By Farr: WPF Line of Business Seminar

Clarity Blogs: ASP.NET, June 23, 2009
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The WPF Line of Business seminar is a two day introductory provided by Microsoft outlining WPF, its benefits, architectural patterns practiced, and coding tips within line of business development....

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