Pixel-in-Gene

After having worked full-time for several years in the Corporate world, I have decided to make a career change and jump on to Consulting . I have joined my friends at , where I’ll be working in the Financial district of New York, building solutions using Microsoft .Net , C…

I have been playing around with Quartz Composer (included as part of the Developer tools installation on Mac OSX) for almost a year. It’s a great tool for creating screen savers, music visualizations and also for quick prototyping of some visual concepts. I personally find the…

In this post I want to talk about some interesting ideas regarding a control called TokenizingControl ? What is that you may ask, so lets start with the basics. A Tokenizing control takes in some text, delimited by some character and converts that text to a token, a token that…

The designers in my team use a lot of nested double-Border elements to achieve a nice rounded border-effect around containers. In XAML this looks like so: You will notice that there is no use of the BorderThickness and BorderBrush properties. Instead this effect achieved by…

GridSplitters work great if you want to provide a split view between two views. By dragging the GridSplitter you can adjust the space allocated to each view. As one view grows in size, the other reduces by the same size. For most cases, this is exactly what is required. In my…

Over the last couple of days I was working on an internal demo and one of the controls I built for that was a SpiderWebControl . It is a Silverlight 4 custom control that allows you to draw a network graph. A quick run down of the features is given below: Adding, removing…

When working in SketchFlow for SilverLight 3, the default file name of the test page is called TestPage.html . If this is not what you want, you can easily change it in the main SketchFlow project’s .csproj file. If you open up the .csproj file, at around…

I received a mail from my publisher stating that one of the chapters from my book: WPF Control Development Unleashed , has been published as an article in the CODE magazine. Go have a look. Link to article Hope the article piques your interest in reading rest of the book :)

Almost a year back, I posted about an interesting project I was involved in, called PyBinding . PyBinding gives you an easy way to write IronPython snippets inside Xaml Bindings and completely do away with value converters. I am glad to announce that this project is finally…

On my recent vacation trip to India, I had some time to get back to my old hobby of sketching and painting. A hobby that I discontinued back in 2009. In fact I missed it so much that the feel of getting back to pencil and paper was great. Photoshop and Illustrator can definitely…