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  • Photoviewer part 5 - Printing in WPF

    One might think that WPF is meant only for doing graphical user interface stuff, but it also contains an API to perform basic printing tasks. The printing API in WPF is actually more advanced than the one offered by windows forms so it will be a lot easier...
    Published 11-11-2008 20:04 by willemm
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  • Photoviewer part 4 - Drag and drop

    The photoviewer application is getting closer to a version 1.0 release and I'm anctious to get it all done. The list of TODO items is stable now and will soon start to drop towards zero. In this 4th part I want to show a little about the new drag...
    Published 04-11-2008 18:24 by willemm
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  • WPF Speed tips

    Lately I am confronted with quite a few cases where the performance of WPF is shady to say the least. This however does most of the time have a reason outside of the framework. In this article I want to show a few things that you can do to make your WPF...
    Published 03-11-2008 8:30 by willemm
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  • Photoviewer part 3 – Fixing memory leaks

    In a comment on part 2 about the photoviewer application Erno pointed out a problem with my photoviewer application. It uses some serious memory and it doesn't really clean up after itself. This already caused some frowns on my end with an album containing...
    Published 22-10-2008 21:50 by willemm
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  • Photoviewer part 2 – Creating the collage view

    You might be wondering, what is he talking about? Was there a part 1 about this application? Yes there was and it wasn't actually called part one. It was an article about custom windows in WPF and how I made one myself for my photoviewer application...
    Published 21-10-2008 20:11 by willemm
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  • Custom Windows in WPF

    In my spare time I have been working on a photoviewer application. The main reason for spending time on this project was to check out the functionality offered in Composite WPF and WPF in general. This is sort of a way for me to discover what is missing...
    Published 07-10-2008 21:00 by willemm
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  • Cool WPF Demos

    I'm a very big fan of the new effects library in WPF. I don't have much experience in 3D, but with the new effects library even I can create some pretty cool things in WPF. There are quite a few videos on this topic on channel9 this week and the past...
    Published 07-10-2008 8:55 by willemm
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  • Theming WPF Applications

    Introduction One of the subjects that I didn't bother to look into is themes in WPF. Although I figured that it would be kind of cool to create custom buttons, comboboxes and menus it wasn't something I found the most important feature of WPF. This is...
    Published 22-09-2008 21:18 by willemm
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  • Cool new features in WPF 3.5 Service Pack 1

    Microsoft has released a new service pack for .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008, containing some pretty cool features. A lot of them can be found in WPF which has gotten quite a few fixes and additions that are really useful for developers who are using...
    Published 16-08-2008 19:07 by willemm
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  • Datagrid control for WPF

    One of the things that was missing from the first releases of WPF was the datagrid control. Microsoft reasoned that you could create your own grid using the existing components. I won’t argue the fact that it is possible, but it isn’t an easy task and...
    Published 13-08-2008 16:30 by willemm
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  • Creating closeable tabitems for use in CompositeWPF

    Using a tabcontrol as a region for views in a CompositeWPF application is one thing, making them closeable can be a bit trickier. The sample in this article will show how you can modify a tabcontrol to allow closeable items. Step 1: Make the custom header...
    Published 31-07-2008 14:12 by willemm

  • Customizing regions in CompositeWPF

    CompositeWPF works with regions to make the user interface composable. Standard you have the itemscontrol that can be used as a region for views. This control is already very flexible and best of all, there are a lot of WPF controls based on the itemscontrol...
    Published 15-07-2008 22:04 by willemm

  • Validation framework for WPF

    Introduction WPF offers some rather good stuff when it comes to applying validation to binding expressions. However it isn't complete in my opinion and could use some kind of extension to make it even easier and more effective to use in an application...
    Published 12-04-2008 22:00 by willemm
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  • New Acropolis CTP

    There's a new CTP available for Acropolis, the new client framework Microsoft is working on. They improved quite a lot on this version. Animations should run better and they fixed various bugs in this release. I hope I will find some time later this...
    Published 18-07-2007 8:51 by willemm
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  • More information on Acropolis

    Acropolis is the new client framework Microsoft to create windows clients. There's a great website with more information and loads of video tutorials. http://www.windowsclient.net/ http://windowsclient.net/Default.aspx I'm going to build a sample...
    Published 18-06-2007 16:20 by willemm
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