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	43 Articles found and displayed in this view. A Windows 8 Look and Feel for WPF, Part 3 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2013 Mar/Apr Release Date: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 Quick ID: 1304031 In Part 1 of this article you learned how to create a Windows 8 look and feel for your WPF applications. In Part 2 of this article you learned to create a few of the user controls that went into making the shell application. In this final article in this series, you will learn how to create the last few user controls that I used to create the Windows 8 Shell application. In this article, you will learn to put together a WPF Image button, an Image button with text and finally the main Tiles used for the primary navigation system. The Easiest Path to Windows 8: HTML + CSS + JavaScript Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2013 Mar/Apr Release Date: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 Quick ID: 1304051 Sometimes it happens that a new version of an operating system introduces a new type of application completely incompatible with older versions of the same system. The last time it happened I think it was with Windows 95. More than 15 years later, Windows 8 comes with support for a completely new segment of applications named Windows Store apps. A Windows 8 Look and Feel for WPF, Part 2 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2013 Jan/Feb Release Date: Monday, December 10, 2012 Quick ID: 1301031 In part 1 of this article, you learned how to create a Windows 8 look and feel for your WPF applications. You were shown a high-level overview of the various components that made up the shell for navigating. In part 2 of this article you will learn to create a WPF Button user control, a Message Box you can style, and a simple Message Broker System. All of these components are used to create the “Windows 8 Style” WPF shell you learned about in part 1. WPF 4 Unleashed - An excerpt from Chapter 1: Why WPF, and What About Silverlight? Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, November 26, 2012 Quick ID: 1211063 WPF 4 Unleashed: By Adam Nathan, Sample Chapter is provided courtesy of Sams Publishing. Published Jun 4, 2010 by Sams. Part of the Unleashed series, Copyright 2011 ISBN-10: 0-672-33119-5 To purchase this book go to http://www.informit.com/store/wpf-4-unleashed-9780672331190?w_ptgrevartcl=Why%20WPF%2c%20and%20What%20About%20Silverlight%3f_1608130 A Windows 8 Look and Feel for WPF, Part 1 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 Nov/Dec Release Date: Thursday, October 04, 2012 Quick ID: 1211021 Many people will not be able to upgrade to Windows 8 right away for various reasons. However, there is nothing to stop you from designing your WPF applications to have a similar look and feel. Getting Rid of Your Code Behind Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 Jul/Aug Release Date: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 Quick ID: 1208031 You know you should be moving code out from behind your forms, windows and web pages and into stand-alone classes. Everyone preaches that this is what to do, everyone shows you examples of ViewModel classes, but no one really shows you a real-world example of how to get rid of the code behind. Intro to Metro Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 Jul/Aug Release Date: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 Quick ID: 1208061 Ten years after the release of the .NET Framework, Microsoft is stirring the pot again with a new development platform that set’s to focus your talents on what everyone is betting is the next big thing, mobile devices; specifically in this case, tablets. The Windows Runtime, or WinRT, is the foundation for the development of applications designed to target Windows 8-driven touch-enabled devices, but what does that mean for .NET developers and their existing skill sets? Seven New Features in Silverlight 5 (Plus a 3D Bonus) Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 Jan/Feb Release Date: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 Quick ID: 1201031 The next version of Silverlight should be available by the time you read this article. The Silverlight team has followed a fast pace during the last few years, producing four versions of their framework in only thirty months. Each new version of Silverlight has been full of surprises and useful features. Version 5 is no different. Let’s look as some of the best features available in SL 5 Spice Up Your Silverlight and WPF Application Images Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 21, 2011 Quick ID: 1112021 Most programmers have a hard time making applications that look interesting and fun. We are great at creating functionality that makes the application do exactly what the user wants, but many applications often look very utilitarian. However, with just a few little XAML tricks, you can make your Silverlight or WPF applications look like an artist had a hand in their creation. In this article I will provide you with a couple of very easy XAML tips that you can use right away to spice up the images in your Silverlight and WPF applications. MVVM Made Simple Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 22, 2010 Quick ID: 1011091 Struggling to grasp the concepts of Model-View-View-Model? Keep it simple! Chapter 1- Why WPF, and What About Silverlight Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 Quick ID: 100173 Adam Nathan explains how WPF 4 and Windows 7 are bringing multi-touch to the masses. PostMortem: Harms Millennium MedSpa Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Jul/Aug Release Date: Monday, June 28, 2010 Quick ID: 1008071 July/August2010 Post Mortem by Markus Egger Centering Text on a WPF Shape Using a User Control Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Jul/Aug Release Date: Sunday, June 27, 2010 Quick ID: 1008021 WPF excels at creating great looking applications. Ask the Doc Detective Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 12, 2010 Quick ID: 1003131 Post Mortem - Office 2010 the Movie Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 05, 2010 Quick ID: 1003091 Chapter 1 - Microsoft Expression Blend Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, February 01, 2010 Quick ID: 100033 Taking aside the technical aspects of learning how to use Microsoft Expression Blend, there are many areas that are often disregarded within discussions about how Blend is-and should be-used in a real-world project sense. You may be a single person business or employee that needs to fill all the roles that Blend is best used for; or, you may be part of an enterprise size team. WPF Control Development Unleashed: Building Advanced User Experiences Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, January 25, 2010 Quick ID: 100023 WPF Control Development Unleashed: Building Advanced User Experiences Chapter 2 The Diverse Visual Class Structure In the first chapter, we talked about how the construction of a framework like WPF is much like the construction of a house. If you don’t know why certain things are built the way they are, you are likely to use them improperly and break something. Why Use WPF? Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 23, 2009 Quick ID: 0911031 If you have not taken a look at Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) yet, you really should. WPF is a great desktop development platform. Granted, all of the tools are not yet in place, but Microsoft is pouring millions of dollars into developing WPF tools. Microsoft now considers Windows Forms a legacy technology and they won’t update it within Visual Studio. These two reasons alone should be enough to convince you that need to start learning WPF right now.While WPF offers a new set of development tools, you’ll see a lot that looks familiar. You still have the typical desktop controls like text boxes, check boxes, radio buttons, etc. You still write the same C# or Visual Basic code. The major difference is how you layout the screens, control the look and feel of the controls, and some of the properties are a little different. This article will give you a good introduction to what WPF is all about without diving too deep. Post Mortem: WPF and Silverlight Styling Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Jul/Aug Release Date: Friday, June 26, 2009 Quick ID: 0907081 The State of WPF & Silverlight Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Jul/Aug Release Date: Friday, June 26, 2009 Quick ID: 0907161 Markus Egger discusses the current State of WPF and Silverlight and the overall importance and acceptance of these technologies. Build Composite WPF and Silverlight Applications Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Jul/Aug Release Date: Friday, June 26, 2009 Quick ID: 0907051 WPF is finally gaining momentum, and so is Silverlight.Users are starting to take a serious look at Silverlight as an option for rich applications; some of them even have scenarios where targeting both platforms make sense. The Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight Applications has received improvements that help developers building either WPF, Silverlight, or both types of composite applications. INotifyPropertyChanged Is Obsolete Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Jul/Aug Release Date: Friday, June 26, 2009 Quick ID: 0907101 The INotifyPropertyChanged interface, while easy to implement, is hard to consume.Registering for notification events requires extra bookkeeping code that obfuscates business logic. Update Controls is an open source library that replaces event-based data binding with automatic discovery and updating. Powerful yet difficult patterns become simple. Dressing Up Your Data with WPF DataTemplates Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Jul/Aug Release Date: Friday, June 26, 2009 Quick ID: 0907111 It’s becoming less and less common to show raw data directly to the user.At the very least, portions of your data may require reformatting to make it more readable for your users. But applying a simple format, say showing a numeric value as a percentage, only goes so far. WPF offers an impressive data transformation tool called Data Templates that can radically change the visualization applied to business data. Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours (Windows Presentation Foundation) (Ch.1 ) Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Friday, March 13, 2009 Quick ID: 090013 Building Polished UIs with Expression Blend - Part 1 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 27, 2009 Quick ID: 0903081 With WPF and Silverlight, Microsoft provides both Windows and Web developers with powerful technologies to create rich, professional, and exciting user experiences.However, in general, developers aren’t graphical designers, leaving most developers wondering how to cope with this new world of designed interfaces and polished user experiences. But fear not! With Expression Blend, Microsoft provides a great tool to create such UIs, and even developers with no graphical talents whatsoever can learn a few techniques that allow for better looking applications. Flexible and Powerful Data Binding with WPF, Part 2 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 19, 2008 Quick ID: 0902061 All applications are dependent on data in some form and most developers find themselves writing reams of data access code.Microsoft has been building databinding frameworks for years. Each one promises to solve our databinding woes forever. We’re still waiting for the perfect one.In the Nov/Dec 2008 issue of CoDe Magazine you were exposed to programmatically controlling data binding mechanisms of WPF. Along with a programmatic interface, WPF also provides a declarative databining interface. This second article will introduce you to using the declarative data binding mechanisms contained in WPF. A Pragmatic Approach to WPF Accessibility Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2008 - Vol. 5 - Issue 4 - Windows Accessibility Focus Release Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Quick ID: 0810102 As is often the case, applications are not typically designed with accessibility in mind.Usually, applications are designed to satisfy business requirements. If those business requirements do not include accessibility, more likely than not, the application as a whole will be inaccessible to important segments of users. There are, however, steps you can take to mitigate this common lack of foresight in requirements analysis. Build Composite WPF Applications Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 24, 2008 Quick ID: 0811041 When you build complex UI applications, it is all too easy to end up with a messy, tightly coupled, interwoven mess that is difficult to develop and maintain; and impossible to test.Too avoid that, you need to employ good design patterns in your UI layer that help you keep things loosely-coupled and testable. Composite Application Guidance for WPF is a set of libraries, documentation, and sample code from Microsoft patterns & practices that helps you to build clean, maintainable applications. In this article, I’ll show you what this set of guidance provides and how to use it to build your WPF applications. Flexible and Powerful Data Binding with WPF Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 24, 2008 Quick ID: 0811081 All applications are dependent on data in some form and most developers find themselves writing reams of data access code.Microsoft has been building data binding frameworks for years. Each one promises to solve our data binding woes forever. We're still waiting for the perfect one. Is WPF data binding the one we've been waiting for? WPF Meets the iPhone Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Mar/Apr Release Date: Thursday, February 28, 2008 Quick ID: 0803061 The iPhone is one of the most compelling and exciting user interfaces to appear on any consumer electronic device, with many innovations that make it a pleasure to use. How can you deliver a similar experience with your .NET applications?This article demonstrates how you can implement these features in your .NET applications in a step-by-step format as you recreate the iPhone interface using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) technology with both Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft Expression Blend. Chapter 1: Getting Started Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 Quick ID: 070163 Silverlight Unleashed - Embedding the Silverlight Control Manually - Letting Silverlight.js Handle the Dirty Work - Understanding Your Hosting Options - Interacting with the Silverlight Control Programmatically A Silverlight to Illuminate the Path Ahead… Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Monday, September 17, 2007 Quick ID: 070143 At Mix 2007 in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced Silverlight (formerly known as WPF/E) to much fanfare. Silverlight is very intriguing in concept, as it further travels the path previously laid out by WPF (Silverlight’s big brother), and it aims to bring the worlds of Windows and Web development, as well as the worlds of software development and graphical design, much closer together. As more and more details emerge (and the first released version is now available), it becomes clear that Silverlight is not just an intriguing concept, but it is for real! Markus discusses Silverlight concepts in this article. Beyond HTML: Rich Internet Applications Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 Quick ID: 070053 Rick Strahl discusses building rich internet applications Being Ultra-Mobile Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2007 - Vol. 4 - Issue 2 - Mobility Release Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Quick ID: 0704012 CoDe Focus Mobile Editorial by Markus Egger Basics of Ink in Windows Presentation Foundation Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2007 - Vol. 4 - Issue 2 - Mobility Release Date: Monday, March 19, 2007 Quick ID: 0704102 Ink is a first-class citizen in the next generation of Microsoft® Windows® user interfaces.Microsoft built ink functionality into all versions of the Microsoft Windows Vista™ operating system, and the new Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) makes it easy to ink-enable your applications. Even using ink over moving video is easy in WPF! Hosting WCF Services Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 - Jan/Feb Release Date: Friday, December 22, 2006 Quick ID: 0701041 Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Services can be hosted with Internet Information Services (IIS); with the new Windows Activation Service (WAS) installed with IIS 7.0; or with any managed application process including console, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), or managed Windows service applications.Selecting the right hosting environment for your services is a choice driven largely by deployment requirements related to transport protocol and operating platform. What's The Resolution? Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Publisher's Point Release Date: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 Quick ID: 060083 Markus Egger discusses screen resolutions. A Look at Windows Vista from a Developer Perspective Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 Quick ID: 060053 Rick Strahl discusses Windows Vista for developers. An Overview of Windows Presentation Foundation Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 17, 2006 Quick ID: 0603041 By now you should have heard of several new acronyms that are usually associated with Windows Vista (codenamed Longhorn). Beyond the Mists of Avalon Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Publisher's Point Release Date: Monday, February 06, 2006 Quick ID: 050153 Markus Egger discusses tools used to create WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation, formerly "Avalon") interfaces, in particular, WinFX Extensions for Visual Studio as well as the Microsoft Expression product line. An Overview of Windows Presentation Foundation Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2006 - Jan/Feb Release Date: Sunday, January 01, 2006 Quick ID: 0601091 By now you should have heard of several new acronyms that are usually associated with Windows Vista (codenamed Longhorn). Into the Future Magazine/Issue: CoDe Focus Magazine, 2005 - Vol. 3 - Issue 1 - Tablet PC and Mobile PC Release Date: Friday, December 30, 2005 Quick ID: 0512131 Tablet PC and Mobile PC development is very popular today, and it will get more popular and important in the future.For Mobile PC developers, there are significant changes coming in the near future, some in the Windows XP timeframe, others in Windows Vista. This article provides an overview over what’s on the drawing board or already available in technology preview builds. Silverlight 2 Unleashed: Introducing Silverlight Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, January 01, 1753 Quick ID: 090023