Just a few weeks since the .NET 3.0 has been released and I feel a little dissapointed. I was expecting a lot of new amazing stuff popping up like a mushrooms after the rain, but no, it's a bit quiet like everyone is afraid of using the new .NET. Finally, I've found the very first cool thing today -...
Frequently, when building a UI, one finds themself setting various appearance related properties over and over again. For example, you may want all the label text in your app to be a bold Trebuchet 12px font. This is easy to do with css in a web app, but not as straight forward with WinForms. WPF recognizes...
Derik Whittaker , a very experienced WinForms developer, has written a post about his initial frustrations with WPF since its recent release. He brings up some very valid points and asks why he should bother with it anymore. I would like to address some of his questions and concerns and hopefully show...
Databinding and Data Templates are perhaps the most powerful features of WPF. Whatever your experiences with databinding in previous technologies, MS or otherwise, I think you will be impressed with the new goods. To begin with, support for datadinding is built into WPF from its core. Almost every graphics...
Introduction Rob Eisenberg and I are writing a game in .NET 3.0. We entered the game into Microsoft Code Master Challenge and we made the semi-finals. Today we had to make a 20 minute online presentation to a panel of judges using Microsoft's new Live Meeting, and while the presentation did not go as...