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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 few weeks. Here's a list of them: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Continuum/WPFFXDemo/ ...

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 ...

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 I agree with other WPF developers that Microsoft could have included the datagrid in the WPF ...

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 ...

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. There are a couple of things I noticed when working with validation in WPF: It is not ...

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 ...

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.aspxI'm going to build a sample to see how it actually works and if it's as great as they say it is. This is going to be ...

Last week I was trying to get a drag and drop treeview to work in WPF. Creating the basic structure was rather pleasing work to do because setting up databinding and getting the items to render correctly is a breeze with the new layout and databinding capabilities. However, getting items dragged from one point in the tree to another point in ...