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      • Micro Tutorial on Theming in Blend
        10/30/08
        Jesse Liberty takes a few minutes of his precious PDC time to give us a Micro Tutorial on Silverlight Theming. "Not meant to be comprehensive," he says, "but as a starting point."

      • XAML Power Toys 3.5 Released Updated For New WPF & Silverlight Toolkits
        10/29/08
        The XAML Powertoys save you from a lot of tedious XML typing and offer some quick solutions when you're developing business applications! Karl Shifflett has release a new version: Version 3.5 of the XAML PowerToys. New features include:


        Great stuff!

      • Designing with Windows Presentation Foundation
        10/28/08
        Currently I'm doing some research for a lecture I'm going to give about WPF, Line-of-Business applications and Usability. I came across this article: Designing with Windows Presentation Foundation. It contains some do's and don'ts concerning WPF. Although some remarks are blantan

      • Short holiday
        10/23/08
        The topic says it all :)

        ..., so no posts until october 28th!

      • Creating a Outlook Calendar using WPF
        10/22/08
        Rudi Grobler has started a nice series on CodePoject in which he will be recreating Outlook's Calendar View in WPF (what else?).

        It looks pretty cool allready. Let's wait and see what the rest of the series look like!

      • Silverlight Contrib 2008.0.0 - Alpha 2
        10/21/08
        Right in the wake of the Silverlight 2 (and not 2.0) release, Silverlight Contrib offers a nice collection of Controls and Libraries you can use (MS-pl licensed) in your project. For now it consist of the following:

        Controls
        - Color Picker
        - Gauge Control
        - Star Selector
      • Nibbles Tutorials has updated to SL2
        10/20/08
        The 'snack-sized' tutorial-site Nibbles Tutorials received a makeover and is now a spiffy Silverlight 2 site. The collection of tutorials is still modest, but they're all fun to do and won't take more than half an hour of your time!

      • Create Data-Centric Web Applications With Silverlight 2
        10/17/08
        A pretty nice article about writing data-centric apps in Silverlight. Nice to read about something NOT about animations for a change :)

      • Using Windows Presentation Foundation for Good and Not Evil
        10/16/08
        If you haven't watched Using Windows Presentation Foundation for Good and Not Evil by David Platt, you probably should. I have seen this talk at the DevDays 2008 in July in Amsterdm and it was pretty good. Of course Platt likes to put things in a less-than-roundabout way, but overall he's

      • Spotlight: The WPF TextBox
        10/15/08
        'Spotlights' are something new for me. I'm going to try and focus on a single WPF control once a week and make an extensive post about it.

        The WPF TextBox
        It seems a bit silly to talk about such a simple and basic control as the WPF TextBox. After all, we see these thi

      • Silverlight 2 Has been released
        10/14/08
        In case you've missed it (as I had) the new version of Silverlight has been released!

        Cool! Read Tim Heuers extensive post about what you need to get started quickly with SL2!

        Update
        Usually the first to post, Scott Guthrie waited a bit but finally posted about Silver

      • A 3D screensaver written in WPF
        10/13/08
        It really amazes me what Sasha Barber can do when he has to
        wait in ... for a new washing machine to be delivered, so had a few hours to spare. So decided it might be fun to try and create a nice WPF screen saver. This article is the outcome of this.
        Sasha sites down and writes a 3D Scre

      • Custom Controls – The Dénoue... err what?
        10/10/08
        Another great post by Jesse Libery. He's been showing us how to create custom controls in Silverlight, he's explained the Silverlight Dependency Properties (which now closely resemble WPF Dependency Properties) and now he's going to dig into how the control conveys its visual contract

      • WPF Diagram Designer
        10/09/08
        Another great series of articles on CodeProject. This one has been on since spring this year, but somehow I had missed it. Pity, since it's pretty good. It shows how to develop your own diagram drawing tool. The first part kicks off by explaining how you could make those cool handles for resizi

      • Glossy Controls for Silverlight
        10/08/08
        These Glossy Controls for Silverlight 2 look pretty awesome. It's also a hell of a first blogpost for Dave!


      • Tutorial Tsunami
        10/07/08
        If we have to believe Jesse Liberty, we can expect an
        awful lot of tutorials coming from him for Silverlight in the coming months. He talks about recording 75 level 300-400 video tutorials per year! That's quite a lot actually :)

      • XAML Powertoys 3.1.0.2 with Silverlight support
        10/06/08
        Karl has been busy and released XAML PowerToys 3.1.0.2. This version includes Silverlight 2 support! In case you don't know what I'm talking about:
        XAML Power Toys is a multi-AppDomain Visual Studio Add-In for WPF and Silverlight developers that provides features to Visual Studio to e

      • StackOverflow and WPF
        10/03/08
        Have you seen StackOverflow.Com yet? Go check it out then. While your at it, you might want to check the WPF questions on it. Although WPF is not one of the top tags, there are still some interesting questions ... and answers obviously.
        Stackoverlow aims to be a wiki-faq-forum hybrid in which

      • Prism Podcast
        10/02/08
        After reading Rudi's posts (see my post from yesterday), I've decided to get to know Prism/CAG a little better myself. So, I will brace myself and start plowing through everything on the MSDN landing page. To recuperate from all the reading I might also watch Composite Application Guidance

      • Rudi Grobler Is Learning Prism And Sharing It With Us
        10/01/08
        Lucky for us Rudi Grobler has 'been tasked with' learning Prism, the Composite Application Guidance for WPF. Lucky, since he shares all his experiences on his blog so we can learn with him. According to him:
        This is truly my idiots opinion about what I have learned trying out PRISM!
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