Over the past couple of months I have developed a bunch of custom controls and utility classes, which people have found useful. However all of these were released independently, had differing namespaces and lacked a common point of download. Well, not anymore !
I have launched a new CodePlex project called FluidKit that aims to tie in all my work under a common library. All future custom controls and WPF goodies will be added to this library. As of today the following items are part of the library:
Custom Controls, Panels
- GlassWindow ( Part 1, Part 2 )
- BalloonDecorator ( Part 1, Part 2 )
- ItemSkimmingPanel + SkimmingContextAdorner
- ImageButton ( part of the GlassWindow control )
Helpers
- DragDropManager ( Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 )
- PennerDoubleAnimation + PennerInterpolator
- This was derived from a Google Code project: wpf-animation. I did a bunch of refactorings, moved the interpolation equations to a separate class (PennerInterpolator), removed the use of reflection to invoke easing equations.
[Note: I will also be adding the ElementFlow control and others to the library.]
At this time, it is in a source-only form with a BSD license.
Go ahead and explore !
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Would be nice if the CodePlex main page had links to the blog entries introducing each of these controls: easier than searching the blog. I was hoping that image at the end of this post was actually links to the named entries.
Thanks Erb for the suggestion. Added links to my posts.
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Why does Fluidkit require VS 2008? I can’t upgrade right now but would like to develop something using Fluidkit. Unfortunately none of the solutions/projects open in VS 2005, and even the “Project Type” is unsupported.
Any chance us VS2005 folks will ever get to use this toolkit?
ALF
I guess that should be possible with some tweaks to the .csproj files. You will have to look up the changes in the MSBuild format from 2005 to 2008.
Great work, please keep going with this one.
Would be nice if you could actually DOWNLOAD it from CodePlex.
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How can I get the kit? I’m eager to try it, but i can’t seem to find a downloadable version anywhere.