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."

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:

• XAML Power Toys has been fully updated to support the new release of the WPF Toolkit released on 10/28/2008. There were some property name changes in the DataGrid, these have been updated. I strongly suggest you download the new release of the WPF Toolkit as the XAML spit from this tool matches the new release and not the previous beta WPF Toolkit.
• Both the WPF and Silverlight DataGrid XAML design tools now allow you to select the DatePicker. If selected, the DatePicker will be rendered in a DataGridTemplateColumn.
• Both the WPF and Silverlight form design tools now allow you to select the DatePicker as a UI control that can be rendered on the form.
• The Silverlight Toolkit was released on 10/28/2008. This toolkit has a Label control. XAML Power Toys supports rendering a Label using the new control. See the Control Defaults section below for guidance on enabling the new Silverlight Label control.
• The DatePicker has been added to the UI Control Defaults dialog box.
The Fields list now supports dragging a DatePicker to the form.

Great stuff!

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 blantantly obvious, it's still an interesting read.

The topic says it all :)

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

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!