I’m excited to be launching a WPF training course through Toronto-based consultancy ObjectSharp. The course is called “Windows Presentation Foundation for Developers and Lead Designers,” and, as the title suggests, it offers a hands-on experience designed to give developers and lead designers the knowledge, background, tips and references they’ll need to build smart client [...]
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Some WPF Line-of-Business App follow-up after my presentation at DevTeach today:
Great Snippets: Great code snippets I have installed into my Visual Studio for WPF development are the Dr Wpf and Nerd+Art snippet packs.
WPF Coding Conventions: The coding guidelines I use for WPF are a riff on Paul Stovell’s XAML and WPF Coding Guidelines.
Application Quality Guide: [...]
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For my money, this Channel 9 Video is so impressive, I think this is the closest we’ve come to enabling a creative team to invent and then implement a futuristic interface like the ones imagined for blockbusters like Minority Report and Iron Man.*
* minus the holography bits. although maybe some awesome researcher could come up [...]
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Posted in Microsoft, Tech, WPF on May 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Greg is in the middle of writing a great explanation of how to build custom WPF 3.5 SP1 pixel shader effects on his blog. He helped me re-create his sample ColorComplementEffect, so I thought I’d offer a sample solution containing an end-to-end custom WPF Pixel Shader Effect using the .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta bits.
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A “Week of WPF” begins on Channel 9 with the announcement that the third major release of WPF (3.5 SP1) has gone beta!
Tim Sneath’s blog entry has fantastic detail about what’s coming in this release and all the download/update details (Silverlighters developing using 2.0 Beta: see caveat below).
Folks attending my “WPF for Line Of Business [...]
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