Windows Presentation Foundation User Education
Write Your Own Surface App with WPF!
Hey WPF devs - as of today you can get the Microsoft Surface 2.0 SDK and write your own surface app....
Date: 07/12/2011
Inspire Improvements to Windows Phone Documentation
We are doing a study to see how we are doing with our documentation. Your input will inform and...
Date: 12/03/2010
A WPF Lab right in Visual Studio!
I recently learned about Ron Jacob's Hand on Lab for Windows Workflow Foundation 4 and I liked it so...
Date: 11/09/2010
MSDN Magazine - A Coder’s Guide to Writing API Documentation
Peter Gruenbaum has written a great article in the November 2010 issue of MSDN Magazine about the...
Date: 11/05/2010
My favorite feature of the WPF and Silverlight Tools update
Update: I guess I didn't check the link I originally posted well enough. It's fixed, now. Thanks to...
Date: 08/26/2010
Experiments with WindowChrome
In July, the Microsoft Ribbon for WPF was released. Hopefully you saw the announcements from the WPF...
Date: 08/25/2010
Getting Started with WPF
The writers on the WPF Developer Content team own over 30K topics in the MSDN library. But one of...
Date: 08/17/2010
Have you started developing for Windows Phone 7 yet?
If you haven't heard the latest buzz about the Windows Phone 7, you must be living under a rock. Or...
Date: 07/30/2010
Principles of software development from an alumnus of the WPF team
I got an email the other day from Ivo Manolov who worked for several years as the test lead for WPF...
Date: 07/28/2010
The new WPF Team Blog - one place to get it all!
The WPF team has put together a new blog where you can go and find out what the people who create...
Date: 07/21/2010
Finding code in the MSDN Library
At Tech Ed, one of the things we heard over and over is “More code!” This is not a new...
Date: 07/07/2010
Find the WPF sample you want with this "map"
I got an email the other day that included a twitter post with a link to this "map" of our...
Date: 06/30/2010
More tools for WPF 4 application development
You might have heard a lot of buzz about the recent release of the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual...
Date: 05/26/2010
Help Viewer Power Tool Provides Index and Standalone Window
Microsoft released a Power Tool that adds keyword index capability to the Help Viewer with an option...
Date: 05/14/2010
Calling a Stored Procedure from your WPF app
Recently I needed to get data from a database by calling a stored procedure. This seemed like it...
Date: 05/04/2010
Keep Offline Help Up-to-Date in Visual Studio 2010
One of my favorite features offered by the new help system in Visual Studio 2010 is the ability to...
Date: 04/15/2010
OpenFileDialog sample
I finally got some time to dig through all my customer feedback requests and found a glaring...
Date: 03/26/2010
Finding an Object TreeViewItem
The question often comes up, "how do I get to a certain TreeViewItem?" The question arises because a...
Date: 02/23/2010
WPF Shell Integration Library for .NET 3.5
One of the exciting new features in .NET 4 is the ability to use Windows 7 Shell features like Jump...
Date: 02/22/2010
What's new in .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate documentation
The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate is now available along with the...
Date: 02/19/2010
Angled Headers in the DataGrid
In my last post, I demonstrated how to rotate the text inside a DataGrid header. And I suggested...
Date: 01/06/2010
Rotate your text in the WPF DataGrid column headers
I was talking to Cheryl who writes for the Silverlight User Education team and she was trying to...
Date: 12/16/2009
Karl Shifflett’s WPF and Silverlight shared design-time code
Here’s a most excellent demonstration of how to author a custom design experience that’s shared...
Date: 11/21/2009
Fishbowl – A Facebook sample app in WPF
uxlabs@Microsoft has just released Fishbowl, a sample client application for Facebook, complete with...
Date: 11/20/2009
Glenn Block at PDC: Building extensible rich internet applications with the Managed Extensibility Framework
Building Extensible Rich Internet Applications with the Managed Extensibility Framework In Hall F on...
Date: 11/16/2009
WPF samples now available at Code Gallery
In past versions of our Visual Studio and .NET Framework documentation, you may have experienced...
Date: 10/23/2009
.NET Framework 4 Beta 2 documentation now available
Docs for .NET Framework 4 Beta 2, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and Visual Studio 2010 Beta...
Date: 10/21/2009
Silverlight designer sample code is posted
If you’ve been wishing for some helpful designer gestures for your Silverlight DataGrid controls,...
Date: 09/24/2009
WPF Designer sample code is posted
If you want to author custom design-time experiences for your WPF controls, this is a good place to...
Date: 09/16/2009
Silverlight delivers online viewing experience for Sunday Night Football
The NFL and NBC will be delivering the entire Sunday Night Football season by using Silverlight 3.0...
Date: 09/10/2009
TestApi v0.3 Released!
The third preliminary version of TestApi, the testing API library has been released. TestApi is a...
Date: 09/01/2009
Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 available for download
The Windows SDK for Windows 7 and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 is now available for download. Click...
Date: 08/07/2009
Expression Blend 3 released
Including Sketchflow! Check out the Expression Web site and be sure to download the 60 day trial....
Date: 07/22/2009
Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 launch today
This morning, Scott Guthrie and Soma announced the launch of Silverlight 3 and the Release Candidate...
Date: 07/10/2009
LIVE, HD broadcast of the Michael Jackson memorial using IIS Smooth Streaming and Silverlight
Today, July 7th, 10AM PT, 1PM ET – We are broadcasting the Michael Jackson memorial, live in HD from...
Date: 07/07/2009
Chart Controls for WPF ship in the Toolkit
We posted previously about the development of the WPF chart controls. With the release of the June...
Date: 06/25/2009
WPF and Silverlight Designer for VS 2010 featured at WindowsClient.NET
We’re featured over at WindowsClient.NET on the new WPF and Silverlight Designer for Visual Studio...
Date: 05/27/2009
Code sample for the WPF DataGrid.CellStyle topic
At the deadline for Visual Studio 10 Beta 1 content complete, I was madly trying to check in art and...
Date: 05/26/2009
TestApi v.0.2 Released!
The second preliminary version of TestApi, the testing API library has been released. TestApi is a...
Date: 05/22/2009
Offline Beta WPF .Net Framework 4 documentation
Want fast MSDN docs that are scoped only for beta WPF and can be accessed without an internet...
Date: 05/21/2009
Visual Studio 10 Beta 1 bits are posted
Go get ‘em: SKU/downoad page Format Size Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Integrated) Beta 1...
Date: 05/20/2009
.NET Framework 4 and VS Beta1 docs are posted
Docs for .NET Framework 4 Beta 1, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and Visual Studio 2010...
Date: 05/18/2009
Understanding Performance in your WPF Application
I just finished reviewing a document for using the WPF Performance Profiling Tools and I have to say...
Date: 04/23/2009
A Twitter Application in WPF
DigiFlare has released the beta of a new WPF application called DigiTweet. DigiTweet is a desktop...
Date: 04/06/2009
VantagePoint Controls for Silverlight
You may have seen us blog about the excellent VantagePoint WPF controls from our friends at...
Date: 04/06/2009
More fun with DataGrid
Here’s another DataGrid sample using the WPF Toolkit. It includes Creating templates for...
Date: 04/02/2009
WPF Toolkit March 2009 Update is posted
Here’s the official word from the WPF Tree Services & Controls Team: We shipped some great new...
Date: 03/26/2009
Silverlight 3 Beta unveiled today at MIX ‘09
Don’t miss the live stream from MIX ‘09. Here’s the official word: Today, Microsoft Corp. unveiled...
Date: 03/18/2009