Pixel-in-Gene

I have been working on a cool new WPF application that is supposed to run on a big Plasma display. It is going to be a non-interactive application that shows some information in the form of screens. A screen is a term we are using to denote a visual representation of some…

Dan Crevier has made some great posts on using the DataModel-View-ViewModel pattern, which is the defacto pattern for implementing WPF based applications. I believe that using this pattern will enable a better Designer-Developer workflow, which has been my focus for past few…

After having read a part of the book “Beautiful Evidence” and after having received good feedback about the class, I finally I got to attend Edward Tufte’s course on Presenting Data and Information at the Manhattan Center, NY. It was a day long course starting at 10am and…

I have always found that there isn’t enough documentation about Custom Control development in WPF. Most of the information is segregated into articles, blog entries and posts on the WPF Forums. In order to save the trouble for other fellow WPF developers I intend to document all…

Viewing photographs is always fun. What if there was a cool visualization to view them? Well with WPF , the what-if question should be replaced with when . So here is a little application that takes in a bunch of images and adds some nice slideshow effects. The images that I…

I have been working on the 2D side of WPF for a long time now and its about time I added an extra dimension; 3D. I have worked with 3D before, just that I haven’t done anything substantial. Its time now for me to ramp up. One of the tricky concepts of 3D is to understand how to…