Pixel-in-Gene

Just got an email from Andrew (who runs the NYC .Net UG) that my talk has to be rescheduled due to some overlap. Instead of March 20th my talk has been moved to May 15th 2008 . Here is the updated link: http://www.nycdotnetdev.com/EventDetail.aspx?f=list&event=5/15/2008 It does…

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…

On March 20th 2008, I will be giving a WPF related talk at the New York’s .Net Users Group. The session is titled ” WPF Beyond the Basics: Playing tricks with the Visual Tree ”. If you are around that area do come along. For more information go to this link: http://www…

One of the applications we are building required a ListBox control that displayed a bunch of contacts. We also wanted to make the rows in the ListBox have alternating row colors, just like the figure below: Our first guess was to use an ItemTemplateSelector. Inside the selector…

Over the past couple of months I got many opportunities to develop a variety of custom controls for WPF. Some of them are as basic as a Numeric TextBox and some are as complex as ElementFlow . It is interesting how many times the same set of patterns repeat themselves again and…

The switch to my new blog @ Pixel-in-Gene has given me lot of flexibility to experiment with ideas. I have been spending a little more time playing with toys like Wordpress (theme and plugin development), PHP (the backbone of Wordpress), Photoshop (uber design tool) and of course…

In one of my recent experiments, I was required to add sorting ability to a custom control. The control itself displays a bunch of items just like the SlideDeckPanel . Additionally for each item Add / Remove the control also sorts the items automatically. Before I describe how…

Hello All, I have moved my earlier blog ” the WPF Way… ” to this site. If you have subscribed to it earlier, please update your feed. You can find the feed URL at the top of this page. Thanks!

Over the past couple of months I have received fairly good response and feedback to some of the posts that I have made. I have also received some criticism that I don’t share enough code. Moving forward in 2008, I would like to change that, at least by making small steps. I would…

Although WPF development is my full-time activity, I also spend a considerable amount of time with Adobe Flex . Over the past couple of weeks I have been involved in an exciting Open Source project called Degrafa . Degrafa is a Declarative Graphics Framework for Flex that…