Pixel-in-Gene

Installing .Net 3.5 SP1 Beta is not recommended if you are using the current version of ElementFlow. When you add items at runtime, the corresponding 3D planes don’t show up. However when I check the Children collection, the models do exist. Looks like there are some issues…

TransitionContainer was a control I created sometime back to enable rich transitions between views. The transitions themselves are pluggable and can be changed dynamically. You can see this in action in the video below. The version included in FluidKit contains three…

My colleague Kevin Hoffman has been working on an interesting project called CLinq or Continuous Linq. It is open-source and hosted on Codeplex . In Kevin’s own words LINQ is a fantastic new addition to the arsenal of .NET programmers everywhere. It gives us the ability to…

Hello folks, I am going on a vacation from tomorrow and will be returning on May 5th. So I guess there would be some silence on this blog, but I’ll try to catch up on emails if I get a good connection. Once I get back I plan to release a new set of Controls for FluidKit . You…

I had a fun time yesterday presenting WPF to the NJ .Net User Group . The audience was a mix of people who had WPF experience, beginners, Interaction Designers and some of them coming from very different backgrounds like Linux administrator, VB6 programmer! It was great chatting…

I am going to give a talk on WPF at the NJ .Net Users Group on April 10th. If you are around that area do come along for an evening of WPF. My talk will be around Visual Trees , ElementFlow , FluidKit , UI patterns and other interesting tidbits. Here is a link to the website…

Over the past couple of days I have been working on an application that automatically generates a Form layout from an XML file. The XML file represents a form with a bunch of parameters. The form can also contain parameter groups, which can encapsulate a set of parameters…

I am sure I am not the only one who would say that Wordpress is a great blogging (+ CMS) platform. There is a vibrant community developing all kinds of stuff with Plugins, Themes and what not! As a fun exercise I decided to create a Wordpress theme for learning more about the…

I am pretty happy to see the great community interest in the FluidKit project. Even happier is the fact that we have our first contribution from Boris Tschirner (I guess from Germany). Boris is a designer who contributed two classes that draw some nifty shapes, namely the…

I am glad to announce that the ElementFlow control has been added to the FluidKit library. This has been a popular request for quite some time now. If you are unfamiliar with ElementFlow please have a look at these posts: ( Part 1 , Part 2 ). Since the FluidKit library is…