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Josh Smith on WPF
3 Jul 2008 16:35
Bach To The Future
Every once in a while, I post a recording of myself playing the piano.  Today is one of those days!  Please excuse the crappy recording quality, I ..

Josh Smith on WPF
3 Jul 2008 12:58
Synchronized Field Widths In Xamdatagrid
I tackled an interesting programming task where I needed the width of cells in child records of a XamDataGrid to stay in sync with the width of the c..

Josh Smith on WPF
2 Jul 2008 17:32
Catalogue Of Artificial Inheritance Context Techniques
I spent my lunch break today publishing an article that I've been working on for a couple of days. It explains and shows examples of three techniques..

Josh Smith on WPF
1 Jul 2008 13:23
The Podder Skinning Competition Deadline Has Been Extended
The Podder Skinning Competition deadline has been extended to 00:00 (i.e. 12:00 AM) GMT on Monday, August 4, 2008. Only one person submitted an entry..

Josh Smith on WPF
30 Jun 2008 14:09
The Race Is On!
The Podder Skinning Competition deadline is quickly drawing near.  As of 12:00 AM GMT on Tuesday, July 1, 2008 your opportunity to submit a Podder s..

Josh Smith on WPF
26 Jun 2008 21:03
Datacontextspy
I just blogged about my new DataContextSpy class , over on my other blog . It uses Hillberg's Freezable trick to gain access to an inheritance contex..

WPF Performance
25 Jun 2008 18:39
Improve Wpf Application Startup Using Clickonce On-Demand Download
In this blog (see item 11.) we discussed the fact that ClickOnce can have a significant effect on application start app time. For standalone applicat..

Josh Smith on WPF
20 Jun 2008 13:56
Persisting Field Widths In Xamdatagrid
I have been writing a lot about XamDataGrid on my other blog recently.  My most recent post shows how to save and load the widths of columns/fields ..

Josh Smith on WPF
17 Jun 2008 13:20
Allowing Commandmanager To Query Your Icommand Objects
One of the great parts about commands in WPF is that they know if they can currently execute or not. When they cannot execute, the control(s) that ar..

Josh Smith on WPF
16 Jun 2008 22:48
Post About Unbound Fields In Xamdatagrid
If you use the Infragistics XamDataGrid, you might want to check out my latest post about it .  I put together a demo app that shows the proper way ..

Josh Smith on WPF
16 Jun 2008 01:30
Understanding Templates In Wpf
If you are versed in the ways of Windows Forms and plan on using WPF, brace yourself. The platform might seem somewhat similar at first, at a glance...

Adam Nathan's Win32 to WinFX Blog
13 Jun 2008 04:21
New Game Creator Features Are Now Live!
A few hours ago we released our 20th major update to Popfly, which includes our first update to the game creator since it was released just over a mo..

Josh Smith on WPF
13 Jun 2008 01:47
Conditionally Adding Elements Declared In Xaml To The Element Tree
In my previous post I showed a markup extension that only creates elements declared in your XAML file if you are running with Full Trust from the CLR..

Josh Smith on WPF
12 Jun 2008 13:40
Writing Xaml That Gracefully Degrades In Partial Trust Scenarios
Developing WPF applications that run with full trust allows you to remain blissfully unaware of the problems involved with working in a partial trust..

Lester's piece on WPF/Avalon
12 Jun 2008 12:28
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. Functions supported by this control are: Navigat..

Josh Smith on WPF
10 Jun 2008 12:10
Three Tips For Working With Xbap
There is not much documentation out there that explains the best ways to work with Xaml Browser Applications (XBAPs). At my job, I recently inherited..

Josh Smith on WPF
6 Jun 2008 02:22
Yet Another Workaround For Not Having An Inheritance Context
There are several workarounds for the fact that you can't give any arbitrary object an inheritance context (i.e. data bind the properties of any obje..

Lester's piece on WPF/Avalon
5 Jun 2008 14:37
New Features: Scrollviewer.Isdeferredscrollingenabled; Alternationcount;Ieditablecollectionview
3 more features which go hand in hand are the: ·          ScrollViewer.IsDeferredScrollingEnabled ·  &..

Lester's piece on WPF/Avalon
30 May 2008 15:39
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 topic. Its well worth the read. So head over :) GP..

Lester's piece on WPF/Avalon
23 May 2008 23:21
Sourceanalysis: Tool To Enforce Coding Style
People just love to write code. One tool that is used inside Microsoft is StyleCop which enforces code style guidelines on the code we write. Its alw..