Entries Tagged 'XAML' ↓

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 Harmonyâ„¢, 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 Tangerineâ„¢. 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.

Josh Smith has a nice series of introductory WPF articles up on the CodeProject.

The goal of those articles is to bring someone with no WPF experience up-to-speed enough so that (s)he can fully understand how the series’ demo application works. This page serves as a table of contents for that series.

Josh does a great job of breaking things down in a way that beginners/intermediates can understand. The source code is available as well.
Topics include:

• Part 1 (XAML)
• Part 2 (Layout)
• Part 3 (Data binding)
• Part 4 (Data templates and triggers)
• Part 5 (Styles)

It’s great to see more and more tutorials popping up on all the time.
Source » Josh Smith on WPF

Celso Gomes recently launched Nibbles Tutorials.

Built entirely in Silverlight, the site features step-by-step tutorials geared toward designers who are new to Expression Blend and Expression Design.

Not only is this is a great resource for designers who are just getting their feet wet with WPF, but it the site itself is a nice example of what can be done in Silverlight.

We hope to see more from Celso in the coming months. Keep an eye on his blog for more info.

Divelements has just released SandRibbon, a Windows Presentation Foundation ribbon control. This product seems comparable to the ribbon control from DevComponents that we previously posted about.

I haven’t had time to download them both to do a side-by-side comparison. They both offer trial versions available for download. WPF Ribbon | SandRibbon

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