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New WPF Features: LayoutRounding
This is part of a series on New WPF Features LayoutRounding - If you are familiar with Silverlight,...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/30/2009
MVVM Frameworks
Cinch Author: Sacha Barber Silverlight support: no Documentation: excellent, 6 articles published on...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/30/2009
New WPF Features: KeyGesture Binding
This is part of a series on New WPF Features We got a lot of feedback to improve the way a developer...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/29/2009
New WPF Features: ClearTypeHint
This is part of a series on New WPF Features WPF enforces grayscale rendering when text is rendered...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/28/2009
New WPF Features: CaretBrushSelectionBrush
This is part of a series on New WPF Features There have been quite a few asks for changing the...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/27/2009
New WPF Features: Custom Speller Dictionary
This is part of a series on New WPF Features In previous versions, adding a custom dictionary was an...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/26/2009
New WPF Features: Jumplists
This is part of a series on New WPF Features Jumplists is a feature of Win7 where in you can the...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/23/2009
New WPF Features: Easing Functions
This is part of a series on New WPF Features Easing functions enables adding custom math formulas to...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/22/2009
New WPF Features: TextFormattingMode for clear text
This is part of a series on New WPF Features Now there has been feedback since 3.0 that the WPF text...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/21/2009
VS 2010.NET 4 Beta2 available for download
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 will be available to MSDN subscribers, with general...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/19/2009
CoreMVVM - now on Codeplex
After the last post, got quite a few requests to put it on Codeplex. So here it goes :...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/12/2009
CoreMVVM: A basic MVVM framework
CoreMVVM download (for those in a hurry :) ) The MVVM Toolkit is a pretty barebones template for...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/08/2009
Migrating Winforms to WPF (links to Info)
Recently, I got a question whether there was any any information for migrating from Winforms to WPF....
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 09/30/2009
System.Xaml: IAmbientPropertyProvider Sample
Another post from Shree :) In my last post I showed an sample using IXamlNameResolver service...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 09/23/2009
WPF WebBrowser - Awesome!!
Just came back from vacation, which was great. Going through the blog posts i missed, I saw the WPF...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 09/08/2009
TestAPI V0.3 Released
TestApi v.0.3 includes the following additions: Managed code fault Injection API Combinatorial...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 07/23/2009
Guidance on WPFSL differences
The title says it all.. This is question that pops up all the time. So its good to share out a...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 07/13/2009
WPF Localization Guidance Doc
Localization of WPF apps has always been a tricky issue... Theres now a loc doc that can help you in...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 06/30/2009
System.Xaml: Method calls from Xaml
Xaml is awesome. I am hearing lot of "yeah"s... So have you tried out the new System.Xaml stack in...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 06/09/2009
Bing goes Live!!
You can now search using Bing. For Tips and Tricks using Bing, follow this link Share this post
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 06/01/2009
WFWPF sample using System.Xaml
Check out the WF/WPF integraion sample using the System.Xaml stack. "The sample demonstrates how to...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 05/22/2009
Download VS2010.NET Framework 4.0
So we have all been awaiting this... For now, MSDN subscribers can get these downloads here If you...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 05/19/2009
Download M-V-VM Project Template/Toolkit
Aha!!! Isnt that what we were all waiting for.. You can get this from here This has been created by...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 05/01/2009
TestAPI v0.2 Released
TestAPI has released its 0.2 version. New features include: - App Control API - In the earlier...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 04/27/2009
Navigation system in WPF
Recently, Tamir revealed an in-car assistant system having a WPF GUI. Thats how a navigation system...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 04/17/2009
GeoPlaces: WCFWPF app
GeoPlaces - This is a pretty cool app integrating several texhnologies - WPF/WCF/ADO/Virtual Earth...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 04/15/2009
ViewModels in MVVM: CLR objects vs. DependencyObjects
Came across Kents post on this topic that provides a strong case for the use of CLR objects for view...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 03/30/2009
IE8 Released : Try it Out!
So IE8 was released today and I got it up and running on my machine. It works really well and if you...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 03/20/2009
MVVM Screencasts
If you are interested in using MVVM architecture for your applications you should defintely take a...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 03/09/2009
WPF App: Sonic
Did you check out Sonic... Its a pretty complex mp3 player by Sacha that "allows the users to...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 02/24/2009
DataBinding CheatSheet
Rob earlier sent a mail about the DataBinding cheat sheet. It did look pretty comprehensive :)......
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 02/03/2009
TestAPI Library Usage
TestAPI . Heard of it? Tried it?... huh So here is the gist of it. It’s a collection of helper...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 01/12/2009
MEF for Loading themes/resourceDictionaries
Hmm... One more acronym to remember :).. "The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a new library...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 12/30/2008
WPF Test Helper Library
Testing your application is a critical part of the development lifecycle. However, as part of...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 12/08/2008
Translation bot for Messenger
Did you know about it. I tried it out today and it works pretty well. All you need to do is add...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 12/05/2008
Testing WPF apps using NUnit
Needless to say I use VSTS for testing purposes. However, quite a lot of people use NUnit for...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 11/25/2008
SilverLight Chart Controls running on WPF
In his recent blog post, Jaime took a stab at running the charting controls in the SilverLight...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 11/18/2008
New WPF Controls: Ribbon/Calendar/DatePicker/VSM
Now you asked for more controls and you got it!! We have got walkthroughs for the following...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/29/2008
WPF sources/symbol files for 3.5 SP1
Today the debug symbols and sources for WPF 3.5 SP1 were pushed online for download through VS2008....
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/23/2008
Tool: Crack.NET
Josh has just published the tool he's been working on - CRACK.NET. Its a combo of Snoop and Mole and...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/20/2008
XAML to PNG with server-side WPF
Y'day I just read an interesting post of rendering xaml files with Server side WPF logic.. Got...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/13/2008
XamlpadX 4.0 zip
xamlpadx XamlPadX.zip
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 09/27/2008
Xaml Coding guidelines
While we have comes across a number of Coding guidelines, there is hardly any guidance wrt writing...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 09/25/2008
XamlPadX 4.0
So I finally got a chance to update XamlpadX and heres the new version. Whats new. The UI has been...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 08/25/2008
WPF SplashScreen Template
The Splashscreen feature was part of SP1. However, there was no VS template to get it done fast. We...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 08/14/2008
WPF Datagrid CTP
One of the common requests from LOB customers has been the Datagrid control. Its not there is SP1...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 08/13/2008
.NET 3.5 SP1 released
Theres just a ton of new features in SP1... so lets just jump to the links (from Charlies blog post)...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 08/11/2008
Posts about threading in .NET
if you want to know more about Threading, theres a series of posts (in the making) by Sacha Barber...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 07/29/2008
Composite Application Guidance for WPF 2008
Its been some time before my last post. Just catching my breath with a new addition to my family. :)...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 07/14/2008