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Clipping of child elements
On the forums I saw this interesting problem where there was a need to round the corners of a stackpanel inside a border with cornerradius set... The top is what you get and the bottom image is what you want. The simplest thing to do here is to set the Read More...
Split Button\Menu Item\Automation
I got a couple of queries from the readers asking if I could provide a slightly non-trivial sample of using automation. So I created a split button user control which looks something like this If there are no items then you get a checkable button. The Read More...
Xbaps using Cookies
Earlier on I had written an app, BlogPadm which was fulltrust and the writer used Google Data API to write the content to Blogger.com. However, when you create an xbap version of it, a problem arises in that you cannot make WebRequests outside site of Read More...
Another MindMapping Tool
A month ago, I was browsing through different blogs and came across Denis Vuyka's blog post on connecting objects on the canvas... Nice post... Being an avid fan of mind maps, that was the natural extension to the library that he created. Check it out Read More...
MindMap app using Hyperbolic tree
I recently came across a Hyperbolic tree implementation on codeplex using WPF and thought that a nice usage of it could be in writing a mind map creating application.... I tweaked some of the original code and got a tree with editable nodes... Its been Read More...
.NET Source code
Now thats what I call WOW ... For .NET developers this is like getting hold of the holy grail :) ... " We'll begin by offering the source code (with source file comments included) for the .NET Base Class Libraries (System, System.IO, System.Collections, Read More...
Testing using WPF UI automation
One question that often pops up among WPF app developers is UI testing... WPF enables this scenario through a new accessibility framework. Some useful resources from mdeavey's post Overview Using UI Automation UI Spy Stress Test using UI Automation (new Read More...
3.5 features: Viewport2DVisual3D
Viewport2DVisual3D .... this new feature makes things a lot easier in the 3D world.. What this enables is putting interactive 2D on 3D. This makes things like having a textbox in 3D a breeze... < Viewport2DVisual3D x:Name = " vp2d_multiple_children Read More...
3.5 Features: Enabled hyperlinks in RichTextBox
hmmm... that was one often requested feature. So to enable hyperlinks in RichTextBox all that is needed is to set the property IsDocumentEnabled on the RichTextBox. Type the following in XamlPadX and you have the hyperlink navigation working. < RichTextBox Read More...
3.5 features: Filtering text with IME languages
So 3.5 beta2 is out and it has quite a lot of features. So one of them is the filtering mechanism for IME languages. This was not a problem in the english and other non-IME languages. The problems were the events associated with IME input - TextInputStart/Update/input... Read More...
3.5 released with many features!!!
You can now download Visual studio 2008 Beta2 and .Net 3.5 Beta 2. The link is here So whats new in 3.5 - Support for Addins - Xbaps now run in FoerFox - Cookies can be shared between XBAP's and Web Apps - Better support for binding to BindingList coll Read More...
WPF Balloon comments :)
Pavan has a nice post on creating baloon comments. The first thing that comes to mind on seeing the balloon comments is Comics. And guess what! thats exactly what I tried.. and presto You can get the original source code here . It overlooks positioning Read More...
One more kewl Animation XBAP
came across this xbap from Denis Dolfus . Its got some kewl animation and evasion techniques. Check it out here Share this post Read More...
WpfPerf tools now available as a msi
A couple of weeks ago I had posted an entry about the WPF perf tools being part of the SDK.. One of the readers asked for a separate installable since the SDK is huge and downloading the SDK just for the perf tools really didnt make sense... So we listened, Read More...
Back to the Future @TechEd 2007
Now this is pretty funny... Watch the video that was played at the start of the keynote address at TechEd 2007 Video: Microsoft Back to the Future Share this post Read More...
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