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WPF/E 3D(like) photo app

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Often times when I go through the WPF forums, I see people getting confused with WPF and WPF/E..... (don’t miss the ‘E’).. One of things that is on many of our minds is ‘why not xbap’. Chad summarizes the difference in his blog pretty well.

“WPF/E Applications

· Are cross-platform ready (Mac OS X and Windows)

· Do not require the client to have the .NET 3.0 runtime. Instead, WPF/E applications run within a browser plugin.

· Do not support code-behind

· Rely on JavaScript

XBAPs

· Require the client to have the .NET 3.0 runtime components installed.

· Are not cross-platform enabled. They will only run on Windows machines.

· Support code-behind

· Must run within IE (or use the IETab plugin for Firefox)”

I decided to get my hands dirty with WPF/E and its pretty simple. What you really need to get going is:

· WPF/E SDK

· WPF/E template for VS (comes with the SDK but needs to be installed)

· Expression Blend is nice to have.

 

No 3D support yet but you can get effects like the above pretty easily.

 

Code is attached :)

 

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  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2007
    Nice application.  This looks VERY nice.

  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2007
    Great work,... go on!  ;)

  • Anonymous
    February 17, 2007
    Lester Lobo has created a WPF/E photo viewer with a nice reflection effect. Lester didn't host his sample

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2007
    I had a question of "how do i make the photo gallery of my site look cool?" Well, check this out ! Works

  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2007
    You said it was nice to have expression Blend installed to develop for WPF/e, but I'm having quiete a lot of problems making Blend's XAMLs to work in the sandbox. Is there any way I can use Expression Blend to generate XAML WPF/e compatible? Thanks~

  • Anonymous
    February 27, 2007
    for now you need to be aware of wahts present in wpf/e and then manipulate the xaml to look better in blend. My approach is basically create the starting xaml in VS and the paste it in Blend; make a few simple modifications like translation and so on.

  • Anonymous
    March 08, 2007
    Lester, This is really nice but I had one question. I modified your code to have only the center rectangle to display the image (I removed the left and the right rectanges). Now how do I stack images one behind another and when I click on any of the images behind the first one it should appear in the front. Something like this is already made in showusyourwow.com. Thanks for any help. Arun

  • Anonymous
    March 09, 2007
    this would require some animation triggers... i am sure its possible in WPF.... try posting your question on the WPF forums :)