Pixel-in-Gene

Over the past couple of days I had a chance to update the TranstionContainer control in FluidKit . There are a bunch of refactorings and some new features: TransitionContainer has been renamed to TransitionPresenter Previously TransitionPresenter was a ContentControl, but used…

I am sure many of you have had a need to dig into an ItemsControl to find the ItemsPanel. If you are taking a top-down approach, which is more involved, you would have to rely on the VisualTreeHelper to drill down and then find the Panel instance you need. A bottom-up approach is…

CoverFlow by default is an single selection model. The item that is in the center is always the selected item and as you keep navigating from left to right, the selected item changes. To introduce a multi-selection mode into a seemingly single selection model, will require some…

I was in a code review session and was getting a constant problem with the default (generic) theme for a control. The file generic.xaml was correctly located in the /Themes folder and the Assembly attribute ThemeInfo was also set. But still the control was not showing up…

One of my blog readers, Haider Malik, raised a question about not being able to see a WebBrowser control inside a transparent GlassWindow . My original thoughts were about some Airspace issues or something to do with Interop . Interestingly it looks like embedding a…

I got the news today morning that I have been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Client Application Development . Thank you Microsoft !

Sometime back I had done a landing web page for some of the internal projects at my company. The page was supposed to be pure Html with Css and Javascript. jQuery was an obvious choice for me as I had already used it successfully in my earlier projects. We decided to show the…

Lee Brimelow does a nice job describing some of the exciting new features of the Flash CS4 IDE . He has published a video on his popular GotoAndLearn website. Some of my favorite features, and I am sure for most of us, are: Object based animation and Motion editor Inverse…

It’s always good to hear about people using FluidKit in their projects. Today morning I got a mail from David Rousset about a project he had done, that used FluidKit’s TransitionContainer. He has published an article on the MSDN-France website describing the project in…

If you are looking to apply a striped background to any of your elements, you don’t need to rely on a PNG tile. Instead you can do it all in Xaml, using a LinearGradientBrush. Suppose you want to color a large Rectangle with a 45 degree striped background, something like: You can…