Stefan Wick's Weblog - Tips for WP7, Silverlight, WPF and Tablet PC
WP7 Mango: Image Download With Custom Referer Header
In Mango we have enabled setting the referer header (and many other headers) on HttpWebRequests. One...
Date: 08/04/2011
Demos from my MIX 2011 session - Part 1: Navigation Tips
I have attached the first of the demos from my MIX 2011 session. Note that I have attached two...
Date: 04/18/2011
MIX 2011: My Windows Phone 7 Session
I just got back from Las Vegas where I had the opportunity to attend and speak at the MIX 2011...
Date: 04/16/2011
Image Tips for Windows Phone 7
If you are developing for Windows Phone you have probably been using the the Image element in...
Date: 04/07/2011
A (slightly) new direction
For the last 18 months I have been (and I still am) working on an exciting new project: Silverlight...
Date: 04/07/2011
Silverlight 4 OOB - Handwriting Recognition & Text-To-Speech
I have been sitting on this sample for quite a while, but never found the time to get it ready for a...
Date: 04/07/2011
Silverlight 3: Perspective 3D
Silverlight 3 Beta has been released today. This release includes a number of exciting new features...
Date: 03/18/2009
Pan Zoom Example
I am hosting this sample here to demonstrate the solution to this forum...
Date: 12/07/2008
Custom Ink Rendering in Silverlight 2
Drawing ink with the built-in stroke objects works great for handwriting and annotations. In some...
Date: 12/01/2008
Back-of-pen Erasing in Silverlight
As addendum to my previous post Erasing Ink in Silverlight 2 I want to show how to enable...
Date: 12/01/2008
Erasing Ink in Silverlight 2
Another frequently asked question around inking in Silverlight is about erasing Ink strokes after...
Date: 11/30/2008
Saving Ink to IsolatedStorage with Silverlight 2
One of the questions I have seen quite a few times in the Silverlight.net forums is how to persists...
Date: 11/01/2008
TabletPC Development Gotchas Part 7: Detecting the input device in Silverlight 2
When writing an application that supports multiple input devices (mouse, stylus, touch) it is often...
Date: 11/01/2008
Silverlight 2 Released - Write On!
Now that Silverlight 2 is released, I finally got around to updating my blog after a long time of...
Date: 10/14/2008
Ink in Silverlight 2 (Beta 1)
I am very excited to write my first blog post about Silverlight 2 today, the project I am currently...
Date: 03/25/2008
Silverlight Ice Skaters - a Holiday Greetings eCard
In the spirit of the holiday season, I have created a little eCard using the Silverlight v1.0 SDK....
Date: 12/18/2007
TabletPC Development Gotchas Part 6: InkCanvas Element Selection/Move/Resize
WPF's InkCanvas element provides a lot of built-in functionality for several common, ink-related...
Date: 12/18/2007
Snipping Pictures with Silverlight
One of my favorite tools on the Tablet PC is the 'Snipping Tool'. I have been using it frequently...
Date: 12/18/2007
Ink Reflections - in Silverlight
I have received several question from folks about my earlier post on Ink Reflections in WPF. People...
Date: 12/02/2007
Rendering ink and image to a bitmap using WPF
To follow-up on my previous blog post and to complete the story about rendering ink onto pictures...
Date: 12/02/2007
TabletPC Development Gotchas Part 5: Rendering ink and image to a bitmap using Winforms
Annotating pictures with handwriting or drawings is a fun and useful scenario for digital ink. In...
Date: 12/02/2007
Test - Work in progress
Photo Selector Component
Date: 11/22/2007
Annotating Video with Ink using Silverlight
Silverlight makes delivering video content in the browser very easy. Silverlight also has ink...
Date: 11/15/2007
Slide decks from my Oredev sessions
Thanks to everyone who attended my sessions at the Oredev conference in Malmo, Sweden. Thank you...
Date: 11/15/2007
Off to Oredev
Just a quick note: I am on my way to Oredev conference. I'll be presenting the following two talks...
Date: 11/12/2007
Ink blogging - using Windows Journal and Silverlight Streaming!
Are you using Windows Journal to jot down your thoughts on your Tablet PC? Did you ever wish to...
Date: 11/04/2007
Fun with Ink & XAML Part4: WPF BitmapEffects applied to Ink
Want to create some fancy looking handwritten text or drawing? Tweaking the standard...
Date: 11/04/2007
TabletPC Development Gotchas Part4: Semantics of GetSystemMetrics(SM_TABLETPC)
If your application needs to find out at runtime whether or not it runs on a Tablet PC, it is...
Date: 11/04/2007
Silverlight Ink SDK Sample - hosted through Silverlight Streaming
With the 'Silverlight Streaming' service you can now invoke a hosted Silverlight application using...
Date: 11/03/2007
Fun with Ink & XAML Part3: Ink Data Binding
Data binding in WPF provides a great way for applications to present and interact with data....
Date: 11/03/2007
TabletPC Development Gotchas Part3: Coerce to Factoid (XP vs. Vista)
If you are writing (or maintaining) and application that uses handwriting recognition, please be...
Date: 11/03/2007
TabletPC Development Gotchas Part2: Deploying InkPicture applications to Windows XP desktops
If you are developing applications that use an InkPicture control and you plan to deploy your...
Date: 11/01/2007
Fun with Ink & Xaml - Part2: Zoom and Scroll
Here is some more fun with ink and Xaml: Scrolling and zooming ink content - in WPF it is as easy as...
Date: 11/01/2007
Shape Recognition with WPF and InkAnalysis
Did you know that the Windows Vista SDK contains a shape recognition engine? It's part of the...
Date: 11/01/2007
TabletPC Development Gotchas Part1: Handling exceptions in Winforms Ink events
Over the past few years of developing apps using the TabletPC platform, I came across a couple of...
Date: 11/01/2007
Fun with Ink & Xaml - Part1: Ink Reflections
With the InkCanvas element in WPF you can create stunning inking experiences for TabletPC users...
Date: 10/31/2007
.NET 3.5: Viewport2DVisual3D and Ink
WPF 3.5 includes an exciting new feature: Viewport2DVisual3D. It makes building interactive 3D...
Date: 10/31/2007