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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 to work with. Printing a basic visual Printing something visual in WPF is dead simple, the ...

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 and drop feature I added to the collage view.Idea behind the featureThere are quite a few demos ...

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 120 images on a 4GB machine, so you can imaging I took this comment rather serious. Luckely ...

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. This part however is going to be about the collage view I created for the photoviewer ...

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 in Composite WPF. But the main reason for having this application is because I needed some way ...

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 mainly because I find it more important to have an application that is great in terms of ...

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 WPF today. In this post I will show some of the interesting new features, not all will be ...

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 template and tabitem style The first step is to modify the look of a tabitem header so it ...

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 so you should be able to come up with a lot of possible schemes in your user interface. I ...

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 week to see whats new and expand one of my samples with the new version. Download can be found ...