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WPF WebBrowser (.NET 3.5 SP1)
One of the new controls is the WebBrowser... aha!! not the Winforms control.. we now have it in WPF....
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 06/12/2008
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Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 06/07/2008
New 3.5 SP1 features: ScrollViewer.IsDeferredScrollingEnabled; AlternationCount;IEditableCollectionView
3 more features which go hand in hand are the: · ScrollViewer.IsDeferredScrollingEnabled ·...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 06/05/2008
GPU based effects
A hot new feature in 3.5 SP1 is GPU based effect. Greg Schechter has has a series of posts on this...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 05/30/2008
SourceAnalysis: Tool to enforce coding style
People just love to write code. One tool that is used inside Microsoft is StyleCop which enforces...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 05/23/2008
Join the WPF Test team
The WPF test team is hiring. We have the following openings · Software Development Engineer in Test...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 05/21/2008
WPF 3.5 SP1 feature: StringFormat
One of the new features in 3.5 SP1 is stringformat. The usage is pretty simple. So following are...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 05/19/2008
.NET 3.5 SP1 - Try it out today
Have you tried out .NET 3.5 SP1... If not, try it now. Its got loads of new features for WPF. In...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 05/16/2008
MDI task switching sample
If you are creating apps which have mdi's (multiple document interfaces) you should definitely take...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 04/21/2008
Clipping of child elements
On the forums I saw this interesting problem where there was a need to round the corners of a...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 04/07/2008
Split ButtonMenu ItemAutomation
I got a couple of queries from the readers asking if I could provide a slightly non-trivial sample...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 03/25/2008
Creating a Media Center PC
Ivo has posted a nice entry on creating a Media Center PC... One thing nice is that it lists...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 03/17/2008
Xbaps using Cookies
Earlier on I had written an app, BlogPadm which was fulltrust and the writer used Google Data API to...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 03/10/2008
Drag drop library updated
The drag drop entry that I had posted has been used by a lot of you guys out there and I have...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 02/26/2008
Tool: Export Visio to Xaml
This is a pretty nifty tool by Saveen.. The project is on codeplex:...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 02/14/2008
Maximizing borderless window using SysParameter values
Earlier on, I had written a post on maximizing a borderless (WindowStyle=None) window but without...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 02/07/2008
Announcing: Vista SP1 RTM/ WPF App quality guide
The WPF team at Microsoft is happy to present the first release of the WPF Application Quality...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 02/05/2008
Want some WPF improvements/features: Tell us
The WPF platform is powerful but relatively new. We realize that some things are lacking and we are...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 01/30/2008
Another MindMapping Tool
A month ago, I was browsing through different blogs and came across Denis Vuyka's blog post on...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 01/24/2008
MindMapper
mind mapper tool msi Mind Mapper Tool Setup.exe
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 01/21/2008
LIVE: The Syndicated Client Experiences Starter Kit & Reader SDK
Finally, the Reader SDK is out ... From the windowsclient site "These Syndicated Client Experiences...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 01/16/2008
Lawson Client - Great looking WPF enterprise app
I just came across this post from LongZheng that highlights the usage of WPF for creating visually...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 01/09/2008
Creating Addins for XamlPadX
I got a few queries after releasing XamlPadX v3 regarding creating addins for the tool. So here is a...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 12/26/2007
XamlPadX V3.0
So I finally got some time to upgrade XamlPadX... One of the things that I really wanted to add was...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 12/19/2007
.NET 3.5 Namespaces poster
As the title says, you can now have a poster of all the namespaces in .NET 3.5.. Its nice to have it...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 12/03/2007
WPF weather reader user control
Recently Ahmad, our test intern, created a WPF weather user control and it came out really nice....
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 11/26/2007
Visual Studio 2008/.NET 3.5 shipped
VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 has finally shipped... All the goodness is out of the beta phase :) To get a...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 11/19/2007
Translator incorporated in Blog
Sometime back I had a post which mentioned that you could tranlsate the blog content using Live...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 11/16/2007
MindMap app using Hyperbolic tree
I recently came across a Hyperbolic tree implementation on codeplex using WPF and thought that a...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/31/2007
Binding menus using HeirarchicalDataTemplates
One WPF feature that is not covered a lot is the HeirarchicalDataTemplate and hence, I asked my...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/23/2007
Updated Live maps
Live maps (maps.live.com) has been updated with a new intuitive UI.. check it out.. its got several...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/17/2007
ABCs of Threat modeling ...
Larry Osterman has an interesting series of posts on Threat modeling.. It starts from the basics and...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/11/2007
.NET Source code
Now thats what I call WOW ... For .NET developers this is like getting hold of the holy grail :) ......
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/05/2007
Windows Live translator
Heya, one of the requests that I often get is if I could provide a translated version of my blog....
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 09/12/2007
Testing using WPF UI automation
One question that often pops up among WPF app developers is UI testing... WPF enables this scenario...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 09/06/2007
3.5 features: Viewport2DVisual3D
Viewport2DVisual3D .... this new feature makes things a lot easier in the 3D world.. What this...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 08/30/2007
Live search in a Silverlight avatar
Try out tafiti.com... Not heard of it... its a new search site from Microsoft which provides Live...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 08/24/2007
photo globe
photo globe ?[Copy to clipboard]View Code CSHARP 1 2 3 4 public Window1() { this.DataContext = new...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 08/24/2007
3.5 features: Addins
In 3.0, we received a number of queries regarding creating plugins. So in 3.5 we got this in .. :)...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 08/16/2007
3.5 Features: Enabled hyperlinks in RichTextBox
hmmm... that was one often requested feature. So to enable hyperlinks in RichTextBox all that is...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 08/09/2007
3.5 features: Filtering text with IME languages
So 3.5 beta2 is out and it has quite a lot of features. So one of them is the filtering mechanism...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 08/03/2007
Classic Menu Addin for Office 2007
The office ribbon UI is very successful in highlighting all the hidden features. However, people...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 07/31/2007
3.5 released with many features!!!
You can now download Visual studio 2008 Beta2 and .Net 3.5 Beta 2. The link is here So whats new in...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 07/26/2007
WPF Balloon comments :)
Pavan has a nice post on creating baloon comments. The first thing that comes to mind on seeing the...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 07/11/2007
One more kewl Animation XBAP
came across this xbap from Denis Dolfus. Its got some kewl animation and evasion techniques. Check...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 07/03/2007
Nifty Silverlight game
Came across this nice little Silverlight game.... Give it a shot... heres the link Share this post
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 06/28/2007
Maps integrated into Live Search
Live Search has now integrated maps into the search itself.. so now if you type in an address you...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 06/14/2007
WpfPerf tools now available as a msi
A couple of weeks ago I had posted an entry about the WPF perf tools being part of the SDK.. One of...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 06/12/2007
Back to the Future @TechEd 2007
Now this is pretty funny... Watch the video that was played at the start of the keynote address at...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 06/08/2007
WPF Blog Writer
Recently, I was trying my hand at creating a simple blog writer. The writer came out pretty nice....
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 06/05/2007