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.NET 3.5 SP1 is here! It's time to break out your DirectX skills. This article provides the information necessary to get started using a new DirectX interop feature in WPF called D3DImage.
Josh Smith discusses Explore Panel3D, a custom WPF panel that displays its children in three-dimensional space.
This tutorial shows how to create a button animation with the System.Windows.Media.Animation namespace.
This ribbon control uses WPF and C# to generate a graphical user interface widget composed of a strip across the top of the window to exposes all functions a program can perform in a single place, with additional ribbons appearing based on the context...
This is the second in a series of articles on writing WPF business applications in VB.NET using Visual Studio 2008. In it I cover the FormNotification control, binding to objects that implement IDataErorrInfo, rendering the Form Notification popup in...
This is the first in a series of articles on writing WPF business applications in VB.NET using Visual Studio 2008. In it I cover the following topics: Application Structure, Skinning, and Custom ToolBar Button Controls.
One of the questions I get most often from designers and almost never from developers is: How can I get drop shadows into my application without killing my performance? It is, of course, easy as punch and pie to get drop shadows into your application. You can just use the Bitmaps Effects panel in the Appearance section.
In the first article I have shown you how to drag, resize and rotate elements on a canvas. Today we are going to add further features that are essential for a typical diagram designer: rubberband selection, multiple selection with keystrokes (LeftMouseButton...
In this first article of the series, I will show you how to drag, resize and rotate any content on a Canvas. By "any content," I mean any object you can assign to the Content property of a ContentControl. Since that property is of type object...
This article demonstrates how to use the WindowsVistaRenderer and how it was created.
Recently a friend of mine who has just started a company pointed me at this site which does lots of fancy image editing. Although he doesn't know XAML or Silverlight he reckoned some of the stuff they were doing was excellent, and asked me to look...
Refactoring the original ColorPicker control by employing the Adapter design pattern to support plug-in display adapters for ComboBox-like appearance and more.
The .NET framework provides quite a rich collection of UI controls and components for WinForms development. One missing control is a color-picker with drop-down color selection capabilities.
This article covers the steps necessary to create per pixel alpha blending windows.
This article describes the interesting properties on the RegionMaster Controls.
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