Windows Presentation Foundation User Education
Binding to Web Services
In WPF, you bind to objects returned by web service method calls the same way you bind to any other...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 05/17/2007
Dark Secrets of the WPF SDK Exposed!
- Introduction Those of you that have been on the .NET journey since versions 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 have...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 05/09/2007
Popup your control
You want a custom control to behave like a Popup and appear over your application and other windows?...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 04/27/2007
Essential Windows Presentation Foundation Released
Chris Anderson, an architect on the WPF team at Microsoft, wrote Essential Windows Presentation...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 04/27/2007
Latest version of WPFPerf.exe available
The latest version of the WPF Performance Suite has just be released in the Windows SDK for Windows...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 04/26/2007
How do I programmatically interact with template-generated elements? Part II
This post shows you how to find a named element within a DataTemplate. In Part I, we discussed how...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 04/16/2007
Centering WPF Windows with WPF and Non-WPF Owner Windows
This post demonstrates how to manually center a window with respect to both a WPF and non-WPF owner...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 04/03/2007
More on Accessibility
I’m going to be a bit indulgent and climb on my soap box for a minute. Making sure your application...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 03/28/2007
Introduction In WPF, when you navigate to a page, you use a special type of URI known as a pack URI...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 03/23/2007
Wha' Happened Part Two: More Property Changes in WPF
Introduction Windows Presentation Foundation features quite a variety of different mechanisms that...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 03/21/2007
How do I programmatically interact with template-generated elements? Part I
You may have a scenario that requires you to find an element within a ControlTemplate. To do that,...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 03/16/2007
WPF individual sample downloads!
Great news! You can now download WPF samples individually. From the WPF samples page on MSDN, just...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 03/16/2007
Big 'ol WPF Animation Wizard Sample
I just created a sample that serves as a walkthrough wizard for teaching WPF animations. Besides...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 03/07/2007
Accessible Data: Making your data available for all
Making sure your application is accessible for tools like screen readers is important and you should...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 02/27/2007
Displaying Enum Values using Data Binding
Some of the FAQs about data binding are: • How do I bind to a method?• How do I bind between...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 02/22/2007
Windows Presentation Foundation SDK Feedback – We’re Listening
Have you seen the “comments” link at the bottom of the installed Windows SDK topics? Have you seen...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 02/22/2007
WPF: Using Bitmap Effects to create drop shadows, outer glows, etc.
In WPF, there are a number of effects you can add on top of UI like drop shadows, glows, blurs and...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 02/05/2007
Thou Shalt Not Break the Golden Rule of Windows Multithreading. Or, Why the Dispatcher Rocks.
I’m in the middle of building a fun little WPF standalone Windows application that needs to build a...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 01/30/2007
Free DataGrid for WPF by Xceed
The DataGrid has to be the most requested and sought-after WPF control. Today Xceed Software has...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 01/25/2007
WPF Samples in our documentation
Currently, when you click on a link to download one of the Windows Presentation Foundation Samples,...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 01/19/2007
Optimizing WPF Application Performance
If you haven't yet, and if you care about the performance of your apps, take a look at the...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 01/18/2007
WPF Animations Tips and Tricks
Although WPF animations are easy (see earlier post), that doesn't mean there aren't some tricky...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 01/18/2007
Wha' happened? Property-changed detection mechanisms in WPF (Part One)
Introduction Windows Presentation Foundation features quite a variety of different mechanisms that...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 01/16/2007
WPF Animations are Easy
Creating animations in WPF is easier than it sounds. No explicit use of timers is required, in fact...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 01/15/2007
Maximizing WPF 3D Performance on Tier-2 Hardware
As people use the Windows Presentation Foundation to build more 3D controls and include 3D scenes in...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 01/15/2007
"Styling" the content of a ContentControl
People have occasionally asked about using a Style to set the content of a control. For example,...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 01/05/2007
MSDN Wiki for the Windows Presentation Foundation SDK
The Windows Presentation Foundation SDK provides a complete set of technical content that targets...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 01/05/2007
Interactive 2D Controls on 3D Surfaces in WPF
One of the really cool features of WPF is its ability to place 2D content on 3D surfaces. For...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 01/02/2007
Using Text as a Decorative Element: the Outline Text Custom Control
The FormattedText object provides greater text formatting features than standard WPF text controls,...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 12/24/2006
What is ContentPropertyAttribute?
ContentPropertyAttribute is an attribute that a class author places on the class to specify the...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 12/21/2006
WPF Technical Chat - Thursday, Dec 21st
The first ever WPF live online chat will be held this Thursday, December 21, at 12:30pm Pacific...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 12/18/2006
Warning? XSD? XAML? Whatever...
Today's blog entry is brought to you by the letters W, and X ... For those of you that have been...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 12/08/2006
MSDN Wiki Live on MSDN2!
The MSDN Community Content feature is now live on MSDN2 and enabled for the .NET 3.0 class library...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 12/08/2006
Introducing WPF/E
Microsoft has just released the first pre-release version of WPF/E, which is a Web technology that...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 12/05/2006
Are You My Mother? A look into how property inheritance works with the logical and visual element trees.
I was recently working on an article for the SDK and noticed some unexpected behavior in one of my...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 11/30/2006
Windows SDK for Windows Vista Released to the Web!
For this release, the Windows SDK is available as either a DVD ISO image (so that you can burn your...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 11/07/2006
Styles and Templates - How's everything related?
People who are new to the platform often have these questions about styles and templates (and a...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 11/07/2006
Uncommon Dialogs: Font Chooser & Color Picker Dialogs
You may have noticed that WPF does not contain some of the standard common dialogs you've come to...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 10/26/2006
Free e-Learning Content on WPF
The Microsoft e-Learning team just launched a set e-Learning clinics covering core components of the...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 10/25/2006
Control.Background does what?
I came to the WPF scene after spending some time as a Programmer/Writer for the Windows Forms team....
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 10/25/2006
WPF Basic Data Binding FAQ
Through talking to people and monitoring both internal and external forums, I have compiled a list...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 10/19/2006
Using XamlPad to Test Content
XamlPad is a Windows SDK tool that gives you a simple way to experiment with creating XAML...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 10/03/2006
Online Documentation Updated For RC
The online documentation is now updated for RC release. Have fun!About Us We are the Windows...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 09/06/2006
Release Candidate of .NET Framework 3.0 Now Available
You can find information and links for download of the runtime and SDK at the MSDN beta site. We...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 09/05/2006
July CTP Released to the Web
Things have been a little slow here on the blog as we focus all of our attention on finishing up the...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 07/17/2006
Best Practices for Globalization and Localization in WPF
You can make the most of the globalization and localization functionality that is built into Windows...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 07/06/2006
June CTP .NET Framework 3.0, Windows SDK and WPF SDK Samples are Live
The June CTP build of the .NET Framework 3.0 and Windows SDK were posted live to the Microsoft...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 06/28/2006
Animating Traffic Map Image Data
WPF provides a rich assortment of features that allow you to create compelling data visualization...
Author: wcsdkteam Date: 06/23/2006