SARANGSoft lights up an application that streamlines the work of IT Pros for maintaining Active Directory and networked assets. The software, SysExpertez, is written in Windows Presentation Foundation and lights up jump lists in Windows 7. SysExpertez helps an IT System Manager / Administrator…
QuarkPromote incorporates Windows 7 light up features for its Rich Internet Application (RIA). Users customize promotional material, business cards, and fliers using the QuarkPromote. Users get the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) client from the website. The thick client allows…
In this screencast,
Marc highlights some tips and tricks for improving perceived startup performance of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications using the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) and a Splash Screen. The walkthrough focuses on using the .NET Framework
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Northrop Grumman partnered with the Microsoft Technology Center and the Microsoft US Public Sector Developer and Platform Evangelism team
to build a Proof Of Concept (POC) application that would demonstrate how Microsoft Surface could enhance mission planning, rehearsal, and post…
This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss this week's developer news, including:
- Moonlight 1.0 goes live
- Lots of cool
Windows 7 Taskbar API Samples
-
WPF Data Binding Cheat Sheet, via
.NET Kicks
- Rudi Grobler:
WPF Themes Project Updated
- Bruno Terkaly: 10 Part…
This is a recording of the US Public Sector Developer Dinner for Partners covering .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 held on August 20, 2008 in Reston, Va.
This presentation is a demo focused walkthrough of the new features and functionality in SP1. You will see demonstrations that will include:…
On a "very special" episode of This Week on Channel 9 from Blizzcon, Dan is joined by Mike "Sampy" Sampson as they discuss the interesting developer stories of the week:
- WPF Effects Library ships on
Codeplex (video demo)
- Stephen Walther - ASP.NET MVC 5-Part…
The WebBrowser control is a new addition for WPF 3.5 Service Pack 1 - here we take a quick look at using it to browse a little HTML, load some HTML from a string or a stream and how we can call into browser code from WPF and vice versa.
The bitmap effects from WPF 3.0 and 3.5 have changed in 3.5 Service Pack 1 in that we now get hardware acceleration and also the ability to plug in 3rd-party or custom effects by writing pixel shaders. Here, we take a quick look at using effects and building
our own simple shader.