WPF

Nikola Mihaylov came by the studio to explain what a WPF Pixel Shader really is and the code involved and making one.  He has a great post on his blog explaining how to get started with Pixel Shaders along with a custom VS project template to make it even easier. In his…

UPDATE: there's a new WPF Designer video showing the features added to Beta 2 now available. Check it out and let us know what you think! Mark Wilson-Thomas demonstrates the new Styling and design features in the WPF and Silverlight Designer in Visual Studio 2010. The WPF…

In this screencast we'll cover the topics needed to create custom skins for WPF and Silverlight. Topics include Resources, Templates, Styles and Dictionaries, and we'll see how each builds upon the other to provide a very rich and flexible skinning system on these platforms.…

This turned out to be a pretty design-centric episode.  Quince the new UX Design Pattern Explorer launched, Illustrator to XAML plug-in is ready to be tested, Alex Knight a XAML Designer is featured and Stimulant shows off their Surface skills. Stories covered in this episode…

In this 4 part series, Bob Brumfield and Erwin van der Valk from patterns and practices shows you how to build a modular application using the recently released Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight - February 2009 (also known as Prism V2).   Part 1.…

LINQ stands for Language INtegrated Query and in a nutshell, it makes query and set operations, like SQL statements first class citizens in .NET languages like C# and VB. Here we visit Anders Hejlsberg in his office to get more on LINQ. Dan Fernandez, also seen in this video, just put up a blog…

In this interview Milind Lele, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Pro Tools team, shows us one of the new RAD improvements coming to WPF in Visual Studio 2010 -- Drag-Drop Data Binding. Also check out his blog post on this topic for more information. His team is looking…

This week on Channel 9, Clint and Dan discuss the week's top developer news, including; [0:42] Windows Phone 8 Emulator Skin Switcher 1.0 released on codeplex (Geert van der Cruijsen ) [1:43] Maps in Windows Phone 8 and Phone toolkit: a winning team – Part 1 (Matteo Pagani)…

Today's WPF Wednesday is a library that I think some of you will have some fun with... I came across this project by accident, but the more I looked at it the cooler I thought it was. Do audio stuff? Need equalizer like controls? A running time digital clock? Display Album Art for an MP3? A Spectrum…

This episode includes amazing visuals in both blu and Descry, one beefy MVVM article and the announcement that there will be no more Betas for Windows 7, next stop Release Candidate! Stories covered in this episode include: No Beta 2 for Windows 7 Comprehensive List of Silverlight…