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Friday, February 29, 2008 8:13 AM

Viewport2DVisual3D: Matrix Expander on WPF 3.5

Hello guys! It was a long time ago I would like to upgrade most of my samples on the final release of WPF. For the first one, I decided to rewrite the Matrix Expander by adding some new features and improving its design. It always derived from the class
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Thursday, April 19, 2007 2:00 AM

One step beyond Silverlight

After WPF, I said myself 'waoh!', that must be huge to provide the same graphical quality for the web apps, the same flexibility. I just would like to go on throwing the new type of user xp in the user's face ! It's however necessary to keep
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Friday, May 19, 2006 3:14 AM

Enter the expander

In waiting for the next post about the WinFX wizard framework (stay calm, it's in progress), I decided to post a simple entry about a piece of my work on the Massaï project: a custom templated Expander control. But it would be too easy to explain how
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006 2:19 AM

WinFX Wizard announcement

With this post, I just want to present you a new concept to design wizards. Everyone knows wizards and massively uses them because they make our "e-life" easier but in the most of time they are not very fun. Always next...next..next...finish without any
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 7:35 AM

How to use DataBinding with the EllipticControl

It's here! The new version of the elliptic control is now available!As I promised a few months ago, I improved the control by adding databinding capabilities to add items around the ellipse. I also changed some code to correct some bugs and improve the
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Saturday, March 18, 2006 6:32 PM

Introducing RoutedThemeDictionary, a new ThemeDictionaryExtension

With this post, I'm pleased to present a new concept and a new use of the ResourceDictionary object to apply themes. In my preceeding post, I explained how to apply themes in your applications in a industrial process. Now I gonna show you how to
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Monday, March 06, 2006 7:54 AM

Create and apply custom themes

Introduction With WPF, Microsoft introduces one of the most famous mechanism until now reserved almost exclusively for web applications, available for any types of application: UI composed by themes. Indeed, all visual elements can be defined by
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Friday, February 24, 2006 6:48 PM

[WPF Core] Attached DependencyProperty and VisualTree

Introduction After several month of investigation about WPF, We are used to working on enhanced user graphical experience and the foundamentals are quickly forgotten.So I 've decided to stop one minute on one of the most famous mechanism that
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Wednesday, February 08, 2006 7:03 PM

WinFX evolved buttons

If you are like Raskal, you may think it is enough to add classic buttons in the applications whereas the power of WPF can be used to improve UI experiences. You are absolutely right!In this post (more simple as the previous), I give you
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Friday, February 03, 2006 8:31 AM

3-D visual effect in 2-D (part 2): the fresh elliptic control

Here is the second part of the post about the control displaying items around the path of an ellipse in order to obtain a visual effect close to 3-D.As promises this post describes a customizable and templatable control with code used for its design on
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Monday, January 23, 2006 12:37 PM

WinFX January CTP Released!

Cool! A new CTP is available but beyond your enthusiasm, it seems that there's nothing new in this CTP for WPF. Indeed, according to Karsten's blog, the Dec CTP and Jan CTP are binary compatible. Nevertheless, you will have Go Live licenses for WCF
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Saturday, January 21, 2006 2:57 PM

3D Visual Effect in 2D

Introduction Since Avalon is available, I am impressive by the power of the visual effects such as animations and transformations, orchestrated by storyboards. But the integration of 3-D models in our business applications fascinate myself.
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Saturday, January 14, 2006 4:01 PM

SkewTransform limitation

Among the multiple transformation features of WPF, the SkewTransform class is useful to change the rendering appearance of a visual element. It can easily participate in a simulation of 3-D depth effect in 2-D. It provides several
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005 7:52 PM

Listen media element events

When you play a media element, sound or video, you may want to be notified when the player starts or stops. The player object publishes two interesting events named MediaOpened and MediaEnded. The first event is raised when the video or the sound is over
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005 8:40 AM

Play media elements in the Nov CTP

If you are developping multimedia applications with the powerfull WPF, you may use the MediaElement to play sounds and videos. I recently had issues to listen the sound file several time, by clicking on a button for example. The sound is played in
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