Rob Relyea - Xamlified

WPF Frameworks

• Brian Noyes: Prism: Composite WPF Guidance. Great summary of "Prism" from Brian.  Must read!

Basically Prism is looking to address most of the same concerns that led to the development of the Composite UI Application Block (CAB) and the Smart Client Software Factory (SCSF). Specifically, if you have a large, complicated smart client application, particularly one developed by multiple (possibly distributed) teams, you can't afford to build it all into one big monolithic mass of UI code in a single or small number of top level windows and their code behind. You will need to modularize the application and compose the UI that the user sees out of smaller, more granular and well factored parts that are as decoupled as possible from one another, but come together to make the end result without an overly complex integration effort.

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WPF Contests

• Josh Smith: Announcing the Podder Skinning Competition - Podder, if you haven't seen it, is a great example of how to enable a skinnable application in WPF...

WPF Tools

• geekSpeak: Mole Visualizer + Mole links

WPF How-To

• Alex Shed: Using FrameworkElement.Resources as a Simplified Service Registry
• Rudi Grobler: Pimp my ListView
• TeamLive: Glass Ball in Xaml.  yeah Vectors!  (+ boo jpegs)
• Atul Gupta: Good link with reminder of benefits of ObjectDataProvider vs Direct Object Use.

WPF Controls

• Jared Bienz: WPF Transitionals - lots of blog love out there already for this new CodePlex project.
• MindScape: Heterogeneouse hierarchies in MindScape's WPF Elements Multicolumn TreeView

Silverlight

• Event Horizon: Porting Silverlight 2 to WPF - "found several (as far as I know) undocumented differences between Silverlight 2.0 and WPF that I wanted to share"
• Jaime Rodriguez: Viewbox for Silverlight 2
• SilverlightShow: Why would you specify an event handler in XAML instead of code?  I'm sure some of you have opinions on both sides of the fence here...   Corrected based on feedback:
• Bill Reiss: Why would you specify an event handler in XAML instead of code?

Microsoft

• Channel 9: Ori Amiga - Programming the Mesh

Ori Amiga shows a number of demos showing the native Mesh feeds, WPF applications using Mesh, a Silverlight client that supports working on and offline, a custom Facebook application that syncs Facebook photos with Live Mesh, a Mac client that sends photos to Live Mesh and even LINQ queries over Mesh objects

• Virtual Earth: Tracking Virtual Earth Tile Usage (for WPF, Silverlight, etc... apps)