Pixel-in-Gene

With Framework 3.5 we have a new namespace called System.AddIn which is useful for creating AddIn based application architectures. For an introduction to this namespace and its usage refer to: CLR AddIn blog Jason He’s Paint.Net adventure with System.AddIn WPF AddIns When…

This post is a corollary to a set of posts I did on the DragDropManager component . If you have been using the DragDropManager with a ListBox, you may have encountered an issue where you are not able to scroll using the ScrollBar. There are couple of reasons for this: I have…

Sometime back I had posted about a simple Decorator that draws Balloon Text , similar to the speech balloons you see in comic strips. I called it the BalloonDecorator . At the time of the post I found some minor bugs and delayed posting the source. Although I fixed the bugs I…

Charles Petzold has published an interesting article on creating custom animation classes. Read it here . Sometime back I had used these concepts in making the GenieAnimation . It would have saved me some time if Charles had published this article earlier :)

I am sure many of you have heard and even interacted with the CoverFlow view of iTunes. In the WPF world we have the good folks from Thirteen23, who have created an app called Harmony that shows off the use of CoverFlow. They make good use of the Viewport3D to pull the desired…

When creating a typical user interface, say a Window, Page or UserControl, we start with the top-level container and nest other containers or controls inside it. This is a good approach for a first attempt. But just like we refactor our code to make it more maintainable, we…

Alexander Ullrich from Germany has been kind enough to share a patch of the XamlXporter library (Exporter.Core), which fixes the formatting of the floating point numbers for German locale. If you are facing such an issue you can download the patch here . Thanks Alex!

Sometime back I had posted about the Custom Window Control but was a little lazy in putting up the source code as it was part of a bigger library. I have finally taken it out, changed the namespaces and removed some dependencies. Feel free to use the code as you wish. If you…

Of late I found a new use for ContentControl, which is to use it as a decorator (note the small-case ‘d’). Lets take an example to illustrate this idea. Imagine you want to use a panel decoration like the one below: There are couple of ways in which this can be achieved. Build…

Greg Schecter from the WPF/DWM team has made an interesting post about overlaying 3D content over 2D elements. This is to transition between different states of the UI by using 3D effects. Read it here . I personally feel that UI technologies should be 3D by default. 2D would…