Vote for my MIX 11 Open Call Session
One of the things that I’ve been fascinated by since last year’s MIX conference is the motion design in place in Windows Phone 7. In a past life I worked… Read More »Vote for my MIX 11 Open Call Session
WPF
XAML Files for Location Visualizations in Silverlight and WPF
In the comments of my Silverlight unemployment visualization, someone asked about where I got the US outline. I got it from the WikiCommons website which has an SVG (scalable vector… Read More »XAML Files for Location Visualizations in Silverlight and WPF
How To Create a Flexible Striped Gradient In Silverlight and WPF
Thanks to Joe McBride and Jason Alderman, who discovered this technique in some of Microsoft’s theme packs. I’m trying something a little new… I’m going to post all future Silverlight… Read More »How To Create a Flexible Striped Gradient In Silverlight and WPF
WPF, Silverlight and Design Links for 09/08/09
I finally cleaned out my Google Reader list and picked out the stuff I like. Carsonified » 5 Advanced Photoshop Techniques for Web Designers Carsonified » Advanced Photoshop Techniques for… Read More »WPF, Silverlight and Design Links for 09/08/09
How To Create An Animated ScrollViewer (or ListBox) in WPF
UPDATED 05/22/09 In the comments, someone mentioned that the project wasn’t working properly for keyed scrolling. I’ve updated the project with: Key scrolling (left, right, up, down, page up, page… Read More »How To Create An Animated ScrollViewer (or ListBox) in WPF
INotifyPropertyChanged Snippets (And Why You Should Use These Instead of DependencyProperties)
First things first, here are my INotifyPropertyChanged snippets. INotifyPropertyChanged snippet (PropertyChangedEventHandler and RaisePropertyChanged method) INotifyPropertyChanged Property snippet Just download them into your "Visual Studio 2008CodeSnippetsVisual C#My CodeSnippets" folder and they… Read More »INotifyPropertyChanged Snippets (And Why You Should Use These Instead of DependencyProperties)
Latest SlapDash Version of Wiimote/WPF Visualizer
I’ve been meaning to totally overhaul my Wiimote WPF visualizer for weeks now and I simply haven’t been able to find the time. But in the meantime, people keep having… Read More »Latest SlapDash Version of Wiimote/WPF Visualizer
Using the “Tag” Field And Triggers To Avoid Writing a Value Converter in WPF
I was working on a project recently and I wanted one of my layout controls to have a different margin based on a certain piece of data. (It’s a long… Read More »Using the “Tag” Field And Triggers To Avoid Writing a Value Converter in WPF
6 Tips For Designers For Translating Your Comps Into XAML
I’d been holding out on this post in the interest of getting it just right. I think with more time I would add more stuff, but I stumbled across Scott… Read More »6 Tips For Designers For Translating Your Comps Into XAML
XAML Intellisense for Blend
Karsten Januszewski has a post on getting intellisense into Blend. Apparently it only works for WPF (it “works” for Silverlight, but it pulls from the WPF XML schema, which sounds… Read More »XAML Intellisense for Blend