Entries from June 2007 ↓

Fast Company has an interesting article pairing off Silverlight against Apollo and Java.

As mentioned in an earlier post Novells VP of Development Miguel de Icaza presented the Silverlight 1.1 plugin for Linux at Mix07 Paris. What I didn’t mention was that the Silverlight plugin is just a small part of a larger initiative to port the .NET framework to Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix.

For more information visit The Mono Project

Barcode Resource has added WPF support to their Connect Code application with the addition of a .NET 3.0 DLL.

The package supports Code 39, Code 39 Extended, Code 128(Auto,A,B,C), I2of5, ITF14, EAN13, ISBN, ISSN, EAN8, UPCA, UPCE, UCCEAN, EXT2 and EXT5.

Bar codes can be easily added into Windows Presentation Foundation applications (.NET 3) with ConnectCode’s dynamic link library. The download package includes two WPF samples with source code that details the exact steps necessary to do so.”

For the Japanese launch of Vista in December 06 Bascule launched a project to show off the capabilities of WPF 3D. They did a really great job of taking a platform that was in it’s infancy and, rather than focusing on the technology, kept things simple and applied their unique style to it. The result is a bizarre 3D experience that’s difficult to explain.

Once you launch the application click the camera icon to take control of the view, click and drag to look around.

After looking around the Bascule site I have to say I love this agecy. I have no idea what it says but their work is completely out to lunch. It’s a great combo of art and technology.

I’m working on a project where I have to create an Office 07 Ribbon control. While doing research I found this from DevComponents. Claims to be the one and only WPF Ribbon control available.

Wpf-Ribbon™ is the fully compliant Office 2007 style Ribbon control developed from ground-up for Windows Presentation Foundation. Wpf-Ribbon™ is a professional quality component for professional WPF applications.

This is a nice piece on Microsoft Surface and multi-touch displays.

New to WPF?
Jon Kruger has a nice getting started with WPF article here.

Microsoft announced today that Takayuki Ohira is developing planetarium content for his “MEGASTAR” in WPF. Apparently he’ll be making it available online through Silverlight.

Via - TechOn

Novells VP of Development Miguel de Icaza plans to present the Silverlight 1.1 plugin for Linux at Mix07 in Paris later this week.

Via - Application Development Trends Magazine

Well, it’s a start.