Pixel-in-Gene

I really like the simplicity and ease of use in Expression Design . Vector editing never felt so enjoyable. I play the dual role of designer and developer for my projects — not always good, but works for now. Recently I had to create some simple icons in Design and use them in a…

The Blend RC has just been released. As an eager child I got hold of it and checked if my projects were looking good inside it! Some of the things that I noticed right off the bat: I can now see my custom Window control in all its glory right inside Blend. In the previous…

OK I agree that the title of this post doesn’t convey anything meaningful about the post ;) But the post itself is pretty useful, trust me. I am sure most of you have heard and used the ObjectDataProvider (extensively). ObjectDataProvider (ODP) acts as a wrapper around your CLR…

Recently I had to render some text inside a Balloon, similar to the balloons that you see in Comic Strips. They are also called Speech Balloons . My initial reaction was to use the ScaleNine technique that you have in Adobe Flex . ScaleNine splits the graphic that you see on…

We are all well aware of the Attached properties concept and have definitely used it a lot. But on a similar tone there is also the concept of Attached Events, which are useful in some particular cases. Imagine you have a set of Buttons contained inside a WrapPanel. Now I want my…

Just saw this post on Rob Relyea’s blog about Grava , a new WPF based toolset for creating Educational content. The screenshots look exciting. It has an SDK and a bunch of other stuff. Should be a great tool to play with…and learn! Grava Website

XAML, which is short for eXtensible Application Markup Language is a great tool for instantiating objects, not just WPF ones. Although I was aware of this feature for a long time, I never got around to using it exclusively. Recently in one of my projects I wanted to instantiate a…

We all know how useful Reflector is! Now it has added a cool new ability to disassemble BAML files! …you know those compiled XAML files. I saw this post on UrbanPotato.net that tells you how to get it running on your machine. Make sure you have the most recent version of…

The WPF animation system is very powerful and at the same time also very easy to program. For most animations Storyboards should suffice but for some scenarios you may have to resort to using Frame-based animations . Ideally I would want to fit all animations into a Storyboard…

XamlXporter is a project I undertook (mostly as a pet project) to re-create what Michael Swanson did with his Illustrator Plugin . In other words, XamlXporter allows you to export your Illustrator artwork into WPF/XAML format. The exporter has been written entirely in C # , .Net…