Pixel Shader

Join us for this special Microsoft Silverlight Edition of the MSDN Tiki Hut Roadshow. With the ever expanding buzz around Silverlight 3, we've had a ton of requests to dive deeper into what makes Silverlight 3 a 'must have' skill set in your toolbox. Accordingly, we are back on the road to…

David Teitlebaum and Jaime Rodriguez discuss the graphics improvements in .NET 4. David demoes cached composition, pixel shaders 3, and animation easing functions. He also explains discusses rounding, and ClearType Hint. Related resources: Post for this series includes all the new features…

Rick Barraza from Cynergy has been doing some great work showing how to use WritableBitmap and PixelShaders to create some very interesting effects in Silverlight.  Check out both his recent posts Advanced Render Techniques with WriteableBitmaps and Fluid Dynamics in…

Peter Blois has created a Scale 9 grid in Silverlight. Using pixel shaders and Blend extensibility, Peter has a found a solution with design-time support and good performance.

Rene Schulte has been testing multiple implementations of dynamic bitmap images in Silverlight.  He's posted his learnings along with the source code explaining how his test harness works.

Cory Plotts has taken on Robby Ingebretsen's original challenge and has created a Photoshop style blend modes library for WPF.  This means that using Cory's library you can use Blend modes you are familiar with from Photoshop while developing a WPF Application. Familiar modes like…

Ward Bell demonstrates how to disable image-based buttons in LOB apps with a Grayscale Pixel Shader in WPF.  Not only does this save you from twice the image assets to maintain, but its also very simple to do.  And you feel cool, because you're using Pixel Shaders.

Jaime Rodriguez came back from MIX09 and thought "Hey, I bet my WPFFX library could run in the new Silverlight 3 beta".  So he added a few #ifdefs, compiled and waa-laa!  The WPFFX library is running in the Silverlight 3 beta and we have video to prove it. Jaime…

PhotoSuru is a new photo viewing sample from the WPF team. The sample provides a unique way to browse a collection of photos, taking advantage of WPF features such as Pixel Shaders, Adaptive Layout and Custom Themes.  The application is based…

Walt Ritscher walks us through building a custom WPF Pixel Shader Effect using Shazzam, his latest creation.  Along the lines of other useful tools mentioned, Kaxaml and LINQPad, Shazzam is free to download and use.  Props to Walt for generating both C# and VB…