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Xaml shield image in plain Xaml
just came across a post which includes xaml to display the xaml shield. That looks sweet.. and all...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 05/23/2007
Vista style Open/Save FileDialogs
If you have tried creating FileDialogs in WPF, they usually do not blend well into the Vista look....
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 05/14/2007
New WPF Community Site
We now have a new community site for WPF - WWW.windowsclient.net It gels both the WPF and Windows...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 05/11/2007
Updated WpfPerf.msi
I got a couple of mail regarding the performance tools... The good news is that the Windows SDK...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 05/08/2007
download .NET 3.5 beta1
A bit late ;) but .NET 3.5 beta1 was released a couple of days ago......
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 05/01/2007
project msi
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Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 04/27/2007
Update: XamlPadX v2.5
I was pleasantly surprised by the response I got for the last update of the tool. Along with the...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 04/23/2007
Microsoft SilverLight announced
Heard about SilverLight … it was announced today by Microsoft at the National Association of...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 04/16/2007
XamlPadX
Current version of XamlPadX Version 4.0 Older Versions Version 3.0 Version2.5 Version2 Version 1.5...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 04/05/2007
Expression Blend available on MSDN
Expression Web and Blend will be available to all MSDN premium subscribers. yooohooo .... More power...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 04/04/2007
Xaml FlowDoc to XPS
Feng Yuan has a nice blog post on how to convert FlowDocuments to an XPS document with the header....
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 03/30/2007
WPF/E video carousel
Wpf/e is coming out nicely… I tried out a video carousel and it came out really great. Take a look...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 03/26/2007
xamleditor prj
xamleditor prj attached XamlEditor.zip
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 03/24/2007
Smalltalk sessions in a XBAP
Xbaps are just multiplying by the day... Just came across this interesting xbap which runs...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 03/23/2007
Sample form using listview
Recently I was clearing up my documents and I came across this sample I made. Thought it might be...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 03/17/2007
BitmapSource-Bitmap interop
Recently I was trying my hand at a rough image editing scenario and one of the things was changing...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 03/08/2007
Listening to DependencyProperty changes
Dependency property is a pretty kewl concept. You got to agree on that J. One the nice features is...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 03/05/2007
NewsReader apps (built using NewsReader SDK)
I hope you guys out there have tried out the New York Times NewsReader. It enriches the reading...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 02/28/2007
Capturing Frame content
Some time back I got a question about capturing the contents of a frame and it seemed easy, but...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 02/26/2007
WPF/E 3D(like) photo app
Often times when I go through the WPF forums, I see people getting confused with WPF and WPF/E........
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 02/16/2007
Nice Movie viewer xbap
Tim has been posting some kewl WPF apps that are being released to the public. To add to that...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 02/12/2007
Changing caret color in (Rich)TextBox
This sounds simple but its not so since we do not make it public. So what are the options we have...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 02/08/2007
Localizing WPF apps
Localization does pose some difficulties even though I would like to believe the exact opposite :)...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 02/05/2007
Cool WPF app - Turning the Page 2.0
Just came across this super cool WPF web app… Its called “turning the pages” and is developed in...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 01/31/2007
Free Xceed datagrid control for WPF
One of the topmost customer requests has been for the datagrid. Unfortunately, we couldnt provide it...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 01/29/2007
Printing RichTextBox content: (Find the idle printer)
Recently, Praj blogged about printing content of a RichTextBox. Normally, if you use the...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 01/24/2007
Determining the Visibility of Elements inside Scrollviewer
A ScrollViewer is a very handy control. One of the problems, however, is bringing a control to Focus...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 01/18/2007
Xbaps - Learn the basics
Developing Xbaps (WPF web apps) can be a frustrating experience IF you are not sure about the...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 01/15/2007
Complementary copy of Office Professional 2007
Starting from Jan 15 through March 1, Microsoft has organized launch events for Office 2007, Vista...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 01/10/2007
WPF Technical Chat transcript
Now a lot of you guys know that we had a technical chat a week before Christmas. For those who...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 01/02/2007
XamlPadX v2
Season's greetings guys :) Hope your Christmas was great. Ok so before we go into the next year I...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 12/29/2006
12 handy things/tips to know about Vista
By now I hope that most of you have atleast tried Vista. If not, join the bandwagon . INSTALL...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 12/18/2006
Vista look on Non-Aero themes
the look of apps created on vista is kewl and it would be nice to have the same aero theme as...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 12/13/2006
Drag drop library
Some time back Marcelo had written a series of posts covering drag and drop. This was interesting...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 12/08/2006
3D RSS reader in WPF
One more interesting WPF app ... a 3D rss reader ... EnJoi "UniveRSS is a 3D RSS feed reader for...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 12/06/2006
WPF/E is out !!!
WPF/E just came out with the CTP release.... download link:...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 12/04/2006
Mapping mouseclick on 3DModel to a 2D texture coordinate
Some time back I posted a gadget with the rotating earth. This looked nice but it lacked some...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 12/01/2006
Flickr Slideshow gadget
Gadgets are fun stuff... So I thought of creating some eye candy gadget in WPF ... and it looks...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 11/17/2006
Arithmetic operations in Xaml
One of the common hurdles (if you may call that) that I face while writing some xaml is performing...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 11/13/2006
Vista - Sign off for RTM
WHOOHoo !!! For those with MSDN Premium subscriptions you will be able to download the RTM version...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 11/08/2006
Alternate XamlWriter - better performance
Fritzenhammer points out a performance discrepancy in XamlWriter. It turns out that optimizations to...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 11/07/2006
XamlPadX (update)
I got a few requests to include a color picker which turns out to be pretty useful. As such, I have...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 11/02/2006
XamlPadX (extended)
XamlPad is a nice tool for viewing how the Xaml looks like and is used quite a lot for repro'ing...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/31/2006
Split Button in WPF
One of the commonly requested controls in WPF is the split button... its pretty simple to implement...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/25/2006
Vista gadgets using WPF
In vista, the sidebar provides valuable real estate and it would be nice to have some WPF stuff in...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/23/2006
Customized RichTextBox
One of the devs from the Editing side Prajakta has just started blogging and the latest post has...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/16/2006
Cool WPF app - Picture board
Just came across a cool WPF app created by Michael Emmons on his blog. Take a look :) (exe attached)...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/12/2006
Xaml Inline coding
One interesting aspect is Xaml is that you can have inline code.... the syntax is as below...
Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/06/2006
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Author: LesterLobo - MSFT Date: 10/04/2006