Pixel-in-Gene

I recently received a mail from Marshall Price, one of the readers of my book WPF Control Development Unleashed , pointing at a bug in the sample from Chapter 8 (Virtualization). He had made some changes to the sample code in order to delete items from the StaggeredPanel. This…

Wondering what would it look like if you built WPF controls using F # ? If yes, head over to Matt’s blog where he has translated almost all of the examples in my book WPF Control Development Unleashed to F # ! He is even starting a CodePlex project to host the source code…

This post is inspired by an interesting idea sent by Bo Stilling, one of the readers of my book . It combines the ideas discussed in Chapter 4 “Custom Panels” and Chapter 7 “IScrollInfo” to create a panel that lays out the items about a half-circle. When you scroll the panel…

The book is finally out. Go get your copy and start building some advanced controls ! Happy WPF Control programming! Amazon link

I have always enjoyed 3D modeling. The kind of tools you use and kind of thinking that is required is so different than my everyday job of writing code. That shift in mindset is quite challenging and also exciting. In fact, the only reason I keep coming back to 3D modeling is for…

The website for my upcoming book is finally online, which also means the Source code is available for download ! Without further ado, here is the link to the website: WPF Control Development Unleashed If you look under the Downloads tab, you will see the link to the zip…

After much prodding from friends and readers of this blog, I have decided to release the source of the little 3D engine I wrote a long time back ( here and here ). The source is part of the FluidKit project and located under the Controls/View3D folder, as shown below: You can…

Treemaps are space-filling visualizations of hierarchical data. Each node in the Treemap is represented as a rectangle, whose size depends on some attribute of the data. For example, if I am representing the high-volume trades in a day, I could have a Treemap that shows…

Attached Properties is a wonderful feature of WPF and I find myself using it in a variety of scenarios. The most recent one has to do with view-management and transitions. The app that I was building has many visual parts that can be swapped out and replaced with something else…

In the app that I am working on right now, there is a particular design pattern that I am using to communicate back and forth with the server side data. The app itself is structured into three distinct pieces: A Service Model (SM), which is essentially a web-service with a bunch…