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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

• Silverlight Marquee Control

  My previous post describes about making a Custom marquee control in WPF. Here is what I tried the same using Silverlight. Silverlight is getting really mature with its latest releases, it has come pretty close to WPF in most of the scenarios. There is... Posted Aug 18 2008, 06:10 PM by The Joy Of Programming Filed under: XAML, SilverLight, marquee, Custom Control

• 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

• 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

• A Slider Control in SilverLight

  Here is a very basic version of a silverlight Slider control.The implementation is very basic and straight forward, See the screen shot bellow. This has been implemented as a user control with a Canvas and a rectangle. The rectangle is the Slider Thumb... Posted Aug 29 2007, 11:44 PM by jobi with | with no comments Filed under: XAML, SilverLight, UserControl

• 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