Windows Vista: Get the glass effect in your C# applications
- Posted: Aug 22, 2006 at 8:34 AM
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Author:
Hi, I am Daniel Moth
Intro:
Windows Vista has a new aero theme that includes what we call the glass effect (powered by the Desktop Windows Manager).
While the non-client area of all windows get glass for free, extending glass into the client area is something you have to work for, as a developer.
In this screencast, I show you how to achieve that with C# in Visual Studio.
Enjoy!
Contents:
30 seconds Intro slide
- 10' Paint it black
10'- 14' Blur the middle
14'- 17' TransparencyKey
30 seconds Closing slide
Video quality:
In order to keep the video size at 800x600, <20MB and also without cutting too much content, the quality of the glass effect is not shown in its true glory. However, the core goal of showing you the code is scored
Get the code:
I have similar samples to what I demo in the video on my blog here, here and here.
Hi, I am Daniel Moth
Intro:
Windows Vista has a new aero theme that includes what we call the glass effect (powered by the Desktop Windows Manager).
While the non-client area of all windows get glass for free, extending glass into the client area is something you have to work for, as a developer.
In this screencast, I show you how to achieve that with C# in Visual Studio.
Enjoy!
Contents:
30 seconds Intro slide
- 10' Paint it black
10'- 14' Blur the middle
14'- 17' TransparencyKey
30 seconds Closing slide
Video quality:
In order to keep the video size at 800x600, <20MB and also without cutting too much content, the quality of the glass effect is not shown in its true glory. However, the core goal of showing you the code is scored
Get the code:
I have similar samples to what I demo in the video on my blog here, here and here.
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Thank you,
Hi SbDotNet
Please try a converter:
http://www.bing.com/search?q=c%23+converter+VB.NET
Cheers
Daniel
Thanks..
Thanks mate.
was searching for this since a long time
@Daniel Moth:
Daniel, could you please help me here. You state that the transparency key approach no longer works with Vista (I thought I'd cracked it there for a moment). I'm trying to put ordinary controls like TextBox's or ComboBox's onto the extended glass area and of course it doesn't display the text properly. How do you solve this problem simply.
@Daniel Moth:
Daniel, could you please help me here. You state that the transparency key approach no longer works with Vista (I thought I'd cracked it there for a moment). I'm trying to put ordinary controls like TextBox's or ComboBox's onto the extended glass area and of course it doesn't display the text properly. How do you solve this problem simply.
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