Posted By: Adam Kinney | Oct 23rd, 2007 @ 10:38 AM | 31,817 Views | 15 Comments
Last week I met up with Pascal Bourque from Xceed.  Pascal is senior developer who has been developing with WPF for two years.  Xceed is a controls company famous for their free WPF Datagrid.

We talk about what its like to develop a rich control using WPF, mainly focusing on the custom theming of the grid.  It really shows off the whole concept of seperating the UI interaction and style from the core code.  And with that capability, diving into redefining a grid's purpose and how real-time visualization changes can be used effectively.

I'm hoping they take my suggestion of a custom themes contest and run with it.  It'd be interesting to see what other type of skins people could create.
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Odi
Odi
Leading WPF Datagrid

The roadmap was just posted:

http://snurl.com/roadmap2008 [forums_xceed_com]

Also, for Twitter users, you can follow the DataGrid user on Twitter to get real-time news, updates, and sometimes, some insanely great rebates or offers.

Odi
Odi
Leading WPF Datagrid
Thanks for the contest suggestion Adam, it is a good idea!

Devs: If you liked the video, Digg it or Kick it.
Thanks for the video Adam.  It's good to hear the story of the Xceed Data Grid straight from the source.  I'm looking forward to more of these WPF videos.

Kurt
Thanks guys, that was really cool. I've been using !.2 for a few weeks now and it's very impressive.

Pascal, that master/detail view looks brilliant... any idea when you'll be releasing 1.3?
colingr: Thanks for the kind words! Version 1.3 should be out somewhere in november, but it will not include master-detail. This feature will be available in the release after 1.3, which we'd like to get out the door before the end of the year. But the schedule for this version is still subject to changes. Pascal
The guys at Xceed know where the WPF ball is. That's exactly what you need to display data with rich WPF look&feel.
Very great!

btw: how can I get the nice Silverlight poster in the background? I'd like to fresh up my office room Cool
I like the nice little animations that aren't just flashy for the sake of being flashy.
Exactly dentaku, there lies the challenge of every designer in the wpf world Big Smile
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