Windows Presentation Foundation User Education
The VisualStateManager and Triggers
Silverlight introduced the Visual State Manager, which makes it easier for control template authors...
Author: Carole Snyder - MSFT Date: 02/27/2009
Tip: Invoking Blend from Visual Studio
So you’re using the WPF Designer to build your slick UI, and you realize you need to go to...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 02/26/2009
Too many pages with the same name
Do you ever end up on an MSDN page only to realize you are looking at the wrong version of the...
Author: Margaret Parsons [MSFT] Date: 02/13/2009
Help us help you!
As my teammate, Cheryl, said a while ago in the Silverlight blog, we love your comments and the...
Author: Carole Snyder - MSFT Date: 01/26/2009
Windows SDK Beta for Windows 7 is posted
The Windows SDK team is proud to announce that the Beta release of the Microsoft Windows SDK for...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 01/14/2009
A new WPF photo application: photoSuru!
photoSuru is a sample application created by the WPF team that allows you to view and share your...
Author: Margaret Parsons [MSFT] Date: 01/07/2009
TestApi Released!
The vision: to help our customers write high-quality .NET applications and to drive test code reuse...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 12/09/2008
A DataGrid sample using XML data
I love LINQ, so I'm on a mission to use it in as many samples as possible. This one is pretty...
Author: Margaret Parsons [MSFT] Date: 11/25/2008
Silverlight Tools for VS and F1 Help
If you've installed the Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008, you may have noticed that pressing...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 11/19/2008
Discuss! Is there confusion about styles versus templates?
Are you or have you been confused by what is a style and what is a template? Our documentation...
Author: Carole Snyder - MSFT Date: 11/18/2008
WPF Designer Hotfix is posted
The WPF Designer team has publicly released a Rollup Hotfix (KB958017) for the WPF Designer in...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 11/10/2008
WPF Toolkit is live - DataGrid, Ribbon, and Calendar preview versions
In conjunction the morning keynote presentation at PDC, the public releases of DataGrid and Ribbon...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 10/28/2008
Silverlight Toolkit is posted
Get the new Silverlight Toolkit. Be sure to check out the samples: Silverlight Toolkit controls...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 10/28/2008
From Silverlight 2 to WPF
I'm a new member of the WPF documentation team, fresh off of Silverlight 2. I worked on WPF many...
Author: Margaret Parsons [MSFT] Date: 10/28/2008
Composite WPF and Silverlight V2 is posted
Do you need to build a big old WPF or Silverlight line-of-business application? Is it so big that...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 10/22/2008
Silverlight 2 docs are posted
The spiffy new SL2 doc set is live on MSDN. Be sure to check out the new QuickStarts, which show you...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 10/14/2008
XamlpadX 4.0 now available
Lester Lobo has posted the latest version of the excellent XamlpadX utility here. This is a...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 09/05/2008
WPF WebBrowser Control Sample
Want to learn how to host web content in WPF, load Word Docs into WPF, etc? How about calling HTML...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 08/18/2008
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Docs Are Live on MSDN
The latest versions of the VS and .NET documentation are available on MSDN. Don't forget that MSDN...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 08/12/2008
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 are Live
Go forth and download: Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions with Service Pack 1 (Bootstrappers)...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 08/11/2008
WPF Designer: Changes and Fixes in VS2008 SP1 Beta
Here's the definitive list: List of changes and fixed issues for Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 05/16/2008
Download Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta
Get it here. Discuss amongst yourselves at the forum. Don't miss Guy Burstein's guided tour. Here's...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 05/14/2008
ItemControls don’t properly select items or raise events when bound to a data source
About a month ago, I saw two unrelated questions where an ItemsControl was not behaving correctly...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 04/30/2008
Databinding and Add-Ins
There are many advantages to using the .NET Framework add-in technology to factor application logic...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 04/25/2008
A Sample and a Question
This month, I’m asking for your input to this question: Which type of sample do you prefer, simple...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 01/29/2008
A sample for the holidays
For my last task of the year, I answered a question about binding a ComboBox to a collection of...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 12/21/2007
Button animation match game
Hello, I'm John, a new programmer-writer on the WPF documentation team. For my first WPF...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 12/12/2007
WPF documentation and default filters in Visual Studio
Heads up! If you go searching for Windows Presentation Foundation documentation in Visual Studio...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 11/28/2007
Download the .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 (and a cautionary remark)
As of today, you can download the release version of .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Here...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 11/19/2007
Building Visual Add-Ins with WPF - New in .NET 3.5!
You’re unlikely to be reading this if you haven’t used the .NET Framework to build managed...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 11/09/2007
Important News for .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 Developers Building Visual Add-Ins with WPF
If you are using .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 to create WPF applications that support visual add-ins,...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 11/08/2007
WPF MSDN Magazine End Bracket
An interesting perspective on XAML:...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 10/31/2007
Design Tools for Windows Presentation Foundation
Most of the content in this SDK documentation is focused on creating WPF applications "by hand,"...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 10/30/2007
Data Validation in 3.5
A cool new feature in the Data area in 3.5 is the support for IDataErrorInfo. Let's take a look at...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 10/02/2007
Improving the performance of the ComboBox
This has been discussed in some of the forums and other blogs, but I figured it was worth repeating....
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 09/29/2007
UIElement3D - Input, Focus, and Eventing support in 3D
One of the great new additions in 3.5 is UIElement3D, which brings input, focus, and eventing to the...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 09/05/2007
Specifying the Selection Color, Content Alignment, and Background Color for items in a ListBox
This post covers some tips and tricks that people frequently ask concerning specifying the...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 08/31/2007
Programming WPF book released
A new edition of Programming WPF, by Ian Griffiths and Chris Sells (O'Reilly Media), has been...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 08/29/2007
Annotated FlowDocument Viewer with Comments Pane
A new WPF 3.5 feature in the Annotations area is the capability to match annotations with the...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 08/20/2007
A WPF Window Without a Window Icon (the thing you click to get the system menu)
In general, you should have windows that show both a window icon and a system menu. Having a window...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 08/02/2007
Using Themes with Custom Controls
Last month I explained how to use shared resources in a control library. This month I’ll create an...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 07/31/2007
What's New in WPF 3.5 - Going Deeper
In the last post we gave you the list of new WPF 3.5 features. If you're looking for more details,...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 07/31/2007
What's New in WPF in the .NET FX 3.5 Beta 2 release
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and the .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 are now available! You can download them...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 07/26/2007
The Open Packaging Conventions (OPC)
The Open Packaging Conventions (OPC) are an open standard for packaging content. The .NET Framework...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 07/20/2007
Expert advice on XmlDataProvider usage
I came across the following Q&A from the technical chat transcript from several months ago. Our...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 06/29/2007
Defining and Using Shared Resources in a Custom Control Library
The question about how to define and use shared resources in a custom library has come up a couple...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 06/08/2007
WPF perf tool available as standalone MSI!
To make it easier for everyone, we have posted the WPF perf tool mentioned here as a standalone...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 06/05/2007
Styling controls on a ToolBar
The ToolBar class defines resource keys that reference styles for the controls on the ToolBar....
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 06/01/2007
An App to Help Test WPF Applications in Different Cultures
Synopsis This post shows a simple application, CultureSwitcher.exe, which allows developers to...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 05/23/2007