WPF

Need some good resources on WPF and Silverlight? Tune in for Billy's list of favorite technical resources, which blogs he reads, and why he's hesitant to tell you about them!Click here for Visual Studio DownloadsAbout BillyBilly Hollis authored many of the earliest books on .NET, and has been…

Bling is a C#-based library for easily programming images, animations, interactions, and visualizations on Microsoft's WPF/.NET. Bling is oriented towards design technologists, i.e., designers who sometimes program, to aid in the rapid prototyping of rich UI design ideas. Students, artists,…

Join Charles and Channel 9 special correspondent, Dr. Sneath, as we interview Rob Relyea about XAML's past, present and future. Here, we dig into how XAML works and why it is desiged the way it is. Are you curious about how and why XAML works the way it does? Ever wonder why BAML was created…

How is WPF designed? How does it work? Join Charles, Tim Sneath (Dr. Sneath, to us on the C9 team) and WPF Architect Greg Schechter as we dig into the guts of WPF as well as discuss it's past and future.Check out Greg's blog here.

Recently, Tim Sneath, a Channel 9 correspondent and Technical Evangelist took us over to the WPF imaging team to learn about some of the great work that's been done in that area. Substantial (and innovative) improvements have been made to the way Windows manages images and renders images…

Recently, Charles cornered Chris Anderson, an Avalon Architect and champion blogger/demo king, in a room, threw him a dry erase marker and asked him to briefly describe the architecture of Avalon. You know, the building blocks of this super cool technology. Of course, Chris always jumps…

Jason De Lorme speaks with Raja Tummla about the Windows 7 features that Eagle Investments is leveraging in their NxG application.  Eagle was in a position to update their technology architecture, and this dovetailed nicely with the advent of new UI features in Windows 7.  Raja…

Brandon LeBlanc from The Windows Blog and I talk about using the Azure service WEIShare.net to capture scores from your Windows Experience Index.

WEI Share ("We Share") is a Coding4Fun code sample that takes your Windows Experience Index score and shares it with the world (anonymously) to an Azure website with a Silverlight front end and lets you post your WEI score to Facebook for bragging rights. Why would you…

Both Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Microsoft Silverlight take advantage of a powerful new paradigm for declaratively creating user interfaces that leverage the graphics power innate in modern personal computers. As we move that same technology into the phone space and beyond we…