Entries Tagged 'XAML' ↓

On Tuesday XChange International announced Electric Rain’s ZAM 3D, a 3D Modeling application that supports XAML.

Electric Rain ZAM 3D™ is a full-featured 3D modelling application that enables easy creation, customisation and animation of 3D interface elements for Windows Vista based applications. Once a 3D scene is created, ZAM 3D automatically generates the XAML (eXtensible Application Markup Language) markup necessary to convert the 3D elements into a Windows Presentation Foundation “WPF” (formally Avalon) 3D scene.

Kirupa Chinnathambi has a well put together article about modifying WPF animations in C# over on his blog. It’s an easy read and will probably be useful for designers just getting their feet wet with C#.

SharpDevelop 3.0, an open source .net IDE, includes WPF and XAML support.

The designer replaces SharpDevelop’s property grid with its own, WPF-based property grid. This property grid will provide support for editing attached properties and data binding in the future.

Unlike the Windows Forms designer, which is included in the .NET Framework and merely hosted by SharpDevelop (which isn’t as easy as it sounds); the WPF designer is written from scratch. Thankfully WPF makes this a lot easier than writing a Windows Forms designer from scratch would be.

Kathleen Dollard has put together an interesting article on XAML over at Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine

XAML (and WPF and WF) promise to change how we program. But before you can put it to use, you need a firm understanding of what this technology is and what its strengths are.

Pavan Podila put together a nice overview on how to create balloon popups in WPF.

The source code is available for download here.

Electric Rain has released Harmony™, a Flash SWF-to-XAML Converter.

Electric Rain claims Harmony will convert SWF files to WPF and Silverlight based XAML. Sound to good to be true? Give it a try and let us know how it works.

Infragistics has partnered with Amazon and Microsoft to release a nice reference application for WPF called Tangerine™. The team at Infragistics built the reference application (called an “exemplar”) using NetAdvantage for WPF.

While you’re on their site don’t miss the other examples of NetAdvantage for WPF. It has some really nice controls with downloadable samples.

Here’s another Illustrator to XAML exporter. Looks like a nice app with preview mode and ability to export directly to Control and Data Templates.

Dax Pandhi writes that WTF 0.9 is available for download.

WTF provides easy XAML based access to over 8 most basic and useful transitions including blur, fade, slide, and zoom. WTF is fully compatible with any WPF control - including custom and 3rd party controls. You can use unlimited WTFs in your app - and you get complete controls on the transitions whether they’re timed or triggered. Oh, and WTF is free!!

Check out the sample WPF code.

Delay’s Blog has a nice proof of concept that demonstrates how to create an XPS reader in WPF/Silverlight. He has made the source code available for download.

Since getting involved with Silverlight and finding out the XPS document type WPF enables has XAML at its core, I’ve been wondering how Silverlight would do as a lightweight XPS viewer.