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• Concave cornered Rectangle - Expression Blend Tip

  An expression blend tip to create a Path looks like a concave cornered rectangle. Put a Grid with 5*5 rows and columns. and add 4 ellipse and a rectangle as in the following XAML. \par ??\cf3 \tab \tab \tab \tab \cf1 \par ??\cf3 \tab \tab \tab \tab \tab... Posted Nov 15 2008, 04:29 PM by The Joy Of Programming Filed under: XAML, WPF, SilverLight, Expression Blend, "Blend Tips"

• WPF Clock

  I had written a blog a long time back on creating a simple WPF clock. It was actually one my first few sample applications that I built when I got to fiddle with Expression Blend for the first time. Only today I noticed that the hyperlink to the Source... Posted Sep 11 2008, 01:28 AM by The Joy Of Programming Filed under: XAML, WPF, Clock, Expression Blend

• WPF Custom Controls - Marquee control

  WPF and Silverlight have the cool idea of 'Lookless controls' which means you can skin a control in whichever way you like. Or in other words the UI rendering logic of a WPF control lives totally in a seperate world than the control's functionality... Posted Aug 18 2008, 06:14 PM by The Joy Of Programming Filed under: XAML, WPF, marquee, Custom Control, XBAP

• Podder Skinning - Another WPF Contest

  For the last two weeks I was a little busy with the WPF work for the Podder Skinning Contest by Josh Smith. Josh had a great WPF application architectured to support complete UI skinning. So all I had to do was to make some controls hooked up to his Model... Posted Aug 15 2008, 08:29 PM by The Joy Of Programming Filed under: XAML, WPF, Expression Tools, Contest, Podcast, Player

• A Simple Radial Panel for WPF and SilverLight

  Geometry was one of the coolest topics in school for me. Probably because it uses a lot of figures to convey the concepts. Here I am trying to explain how we can leverage the Layout system in WPF and Silver light by taking an example of creating a Radial... Posted Apr 23 2008, 11:09 PM by The Joy Of Programming Filed under: WPF, SilverLight, Geometry, Layout, RadialPanel, Panel

• Show all the System.Windows.Media.Colors using DataBinding

  Here is a sample to show all the Colors or even Brushes of WPF System.Windows.Media.Colors class. < ListBox ItemsSource = " {Binding Mode=OneWay, Source={StaticResource helper}} " ItemTemplate = " {DynamicResource DataTemplate1} "... Posted Nov 02 2007, 01:17 AM by jobi with | with no comments Filed under: XAML, WPF, XAML DataTemplate ObjectDataProvider

• Blendables essentials mix v1.0 now available

  A bunch of controls and utilities for Windows Presentation Foundation(WPF) has been released by Identitymine. You can take a look at Blendables here . And there is a WPF programming contest is also going on there. Have you ever wished to have a Carousal3D... Posted Oct 04 2007, 01:09 PM by The Joy Of Programming Filed under: XAML, WPF, Blendables, Custom Control, EvalBinding, Zoombox, TimeLinePanel, Chromelesswindow

• Compare Objects in XAML using a generic IValueConverter

  Here is a way for XAM Designers to compare two instances inside XAML using an IValueConverter. Imagine that you have a ComboBox and few other controls. ComboBox is bounded to a Collection of objects (In my attached code I am binding it to an Enum). In... Posted Mar 15 2007, 12:45 AM by The Joy Of Programming Filed under: XAML, WPF, IvalueConveter

• Simple WPF Clock using Microsoft Expression Blend

  Today I spend some time playing with Microsoft Expression Blend. and thought of creating a XAML Clock using Blend itself. Surprisingly it took less than 2 hours for me to create a good looking Clock. Here is the preview of my XAML Clock. Below are the... Posted Mar 14 2007, 11:51 PM by The Joy Of Programming Filed under: XAML, WPF, Blend, Clock, ValueConverter

• WPF Clock using Microsoft Expression Blend

  Today I spend some time playing with Microsoft Expression Blend . and thought of creating a XAML Clock using Blend itself. Surprisingly it took less than 2 hours for me to create a good looking Clock. Above is the preview of my XAML Clock . Below are... Posted Mar 15 2007, 06:57 AM by jobi with | with no comments Filed under: XAML, WPF