So I recently found and installed the WPF Performance Suite, which I’ve found to be nice and easy to use. Microsoft documentation on using the WPF Performance Suite. As a designer, I’ve found the Perforator a particularly useful tool in the suite. Perforator is a performance profiling tool for analyzing rendering behavior. The Perforator main…
OK, I hope no one is using my last post as an example of what you should be doing when interfacing the Wiimote with WPF. Because it was completely hack-tastic. Instead, use my new WPF/Wii library. It uses the WPF INotifyPropertyChanged interface to act as an interface so that we can bind the Wiimote data…
Download WPF Wii Data Visualizer (App only, 355K) Download WPF Wii Data Visualizer (Visual Studio 2008 Source, 676K) Warning: The project will not run if your Wii controller isn’t connected to your computer. Using the WPF Wii Data Visualizer (Video) OK, now that we’ve gotten our Wii Controllers all hooked up to our computers, it’s…
OK, so I’ve taken note of multi-point WPF a couple times now (both times were in regards to Rick Barraza’s Cynergy demo) and I started noticing that people are really interested in this. So I decided to take some time to create a couple tutorials on creating multi-point interfaces in WPF. A point of note:…
Please Read: Strangely, when you do a Google search for “wpf” and “listview”, this is one of the top links. This is odd because this particular post is kind of an advanced tutorial. If you’re looking for more general information on styling the wpf listview, check out this post. It is probably much closer to what you’re looking…
Because I’ve noticed that some of my posts are running a bit long (I just finished writing one that weighs in at 6 pages and 1200 words) , I’m going to start using a “Continue reading this post” tag so that it is easier to browse the post topics rather than scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll your way through…
Last time I was at Microsoft, I spoke briefly (for about 2 hours) with Rick Barraza about the need to get designers into the WPF space and how des/devs (designer developers) can really push forward a technology like WPF. In fact, it was Rick who inspired me to do more work on this blog as a…
I had a question from a reader in an earlier post on how to resize the ListView Gripper (seen below) so I wanted to address that in this quick post. Styling the gripper is actually pretty easy. First, take a look at my Styling the ListView Column Header post. Follow that along until you get…
ListView header Styling is one of the most difficult styling pieces I’ve had to deal with. Part of this is because it is just another part of the seemingly endlessly complex listview. The other part is just because of the way the styling for the listview is put together in WPF. In this post, we’re…
I just signed up for MIX 08, Microsoft’s annual Vegas conference for web developers an designers. They’ve extended the early bird deadline to January 31st, so head over there and sign up now! As a general rule, I’m more inclined toward the hard client at the moment, but that has been in a large part because:…