Vertigo Software: I See Dead People with WPF

Posted By: Charles | May 23rd, 2007 @ 9:10 AM

If you want to learn a new technology, there’s no better way to go about it than to pore over the source of a real application. Nine months ago we commissioned Vertigo Software to create a reference sample for WPF and Windows Vista, and at MIX we unveiled Family.Show to the world. This application is beautiful both as source code and as running software – and it’s free to download. Dr Sneath sat down with Scott Stanfield, Alan Le and Paul Osburn to find out more about how they built the application and the lessons they learnt in creating it. Check out the MIX session too!

Tags: MIX07, Windows Vista, WPF

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CplCarrot
Dust Puppy

Sorry - URLs are pooched

fizban2

URL is going through OWA server (very nicely setup Exchange 2007 though)

use

http://www.vertigo.com/familyshow.aspx to get to the actual page

Charles
Welcome Change

URLs fixed. Sorry 'bout that (yep, I copied the URLs from an email via OWA...)

C

caffeineHi
Trevor Lowing

What kind of license is this released under? I don't see any license in the source file.

Ion Todirel
ban...kai

Vertigo is cool

codinghorror

Hi Ion,

We haven't had time to include the licensing yet (I am sending out email reminders on this now) but you can assume it's the Microsoft Permissive License:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/licensingbasics/permissivelicense.mspx

Jeff

PeterF
Early Adopter

Nice application. It really shows off the talent of both Vertigo developers and the developers of the .NET framework.

One small bug: don't try to drag out text from a details view textbox control into the canvas

Peter

staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...

Cool app! Q. When adding women (i.e. my wife) do I use her birth name or my last name?

Minh
WOOH! WOOH!

Hi Paul, Alan, Scott

It's Minh from the ill-fated Vertigo-Cincinnati. Great to see you guys getting huge visibility!