Rob Relyea - XAMLified

WPF Applications

• Karsten: Using Flotzam At A Conference.  That plus a cool way to pick sessions, and you've got a pretty sweet conference.
• Office releases their v2 of Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map.  Previously blogged about this: "...using WPF to help navigate through all the developer documentation"

WPF How-To

• Mike Hillberg - Simple way to create a gradient brush in XAML...Mike builds {helper:LinearGradientBrush red, blue, 0}
• SeeSharp: Make your app themed like Expression Apps
• Tamir Khason: Using Vista Preview Handlers in WPF Application
• Tim Hibbard: registering for a property change notification on a DP
• .Net Adventures: TagProperty as an extender method. You could also consider building something following the attachedproperty pattern...a static class with:
       public static object GetTag(object targetObject)
  and
       public static SetTag(object targetObject, object value

WPF Tools

• Rob Burke: Don't forget the WPF Performance Suite - "...This weekend, 10 minutes with the WPF Performance Suite boosted my application’s FPS (frames per second) dramatically..."

Xaml for Config

• Dev Blog: Using Xaml for application configuration - see related "New Xaml Vocabulary: Config?"

File Format Converters

• Maya to WPF3D - Exporting a character with Textures (tutorial)

WPF Controls

• MindScape released WPF Elements - "a suite of 12 essential line of business controls for WPF."

WPF Frameworks

• Kent Boogaart: SCSFContrib releases v1.5
• Ryan Cromwell: MiniMVC for WPF

WPF Blogging

• .NET BLOG: Create WPF Applications without XAML - we used to start many of our demos for WPF this way and then walk people into XAML...to show that XAML wasn't magic and WPF was just another framework library you could call.
• In Lovin' WPF, Pete won the rest of his dev team over by showing them a StatusBar example
• Shafqat Ahmed: Basic WPF: Stylize standard tabs into Aqua Gel
• .NET BLOG: WPF Community for German Speakers starts. "And so .NET GUI was born, a brand new community for German speaking developers and designers of graphical user interfaces based on the .NET Framework."

Silverlight

• Laurent Bugnion - Silverlight: Running standalone full trust applications - using .hta, which we built back in IE5 (1999), Laurent shows how it can host Silverlight content.