In the last part I covered the basics of Xaml and how you can use it to define various UI constructs. When building a UI, one of the first issues you’ll deal with is how to arrange all of the UI pieces on screen. In previous MS technologies we have had limited support for layout. .NET 2.0 offers...
Xaml stands for eXtensible Application Markup Language. You can think of it as HTML for Windows applications, but it is really quite a bit more expressive and powerful. For those of you code junkies out there, Xaml is really no more than a special type of CLR object serialization. It was intentionally...
Windows Presentation Foundation (hereafter referred to as WPF) is a new API for creating graphical user interfaces for the Windows platform. It is an alternative to WinForms that further empowers developers by providing an API capable of taking full advantage of the multimedia facilities of the modern...
Over the past month or so I’ve had the privilege of giving a presentation titled “.NET 3.0 Overview and Key Concepts” to several groups. The main idea of this presentation was to help people get familiar with the capabilities of the new technology and have a better understanding of...