Browse by Tags

Custom Panels in Silverlight/WPF Part 4: Virtualization

This is Part 4 of my series of posts dedicated to creating an animating and virtualizing WrapPanel for Silverlight. If you missed the previous posts, I suggest you take a look. Virtualization “Virtualization” – does anyone know what that means? I imagine there are quite a few different answers, but it...

Posted to Like pancakes... (Weblog) by lroth on 09-16-2009
Custom Panels in Silverlight/WPF Part 3: Animation

This is Part 3 of my series of posts dedicated to creating an animating and virtualizing WrapPanel for Silverlight. If you missed the previous posts, I suggest you take a look. Setup NumberBox Animation Let’s make this easy on ourselves by having the child control handle it’s own animation. To do this...

Posted to Like pancakes... (Weblog) by lroth on 08-31-2009
Custom Panels in Silverlight/WPF Part 2: ArrangeOverride

This is Part 2 of my series of posts dedicated to creating an animating and virtualizing WrapPanel for Silverlight. If you missed the Introduction or Part 1 I suggest you take a look. Setup WrapPanel We’ve already created the WrapPanel class in Part 1, so now all we need to do is add the ArrangeOverride...

Posted to Like pancakes... (Weblog) by lroth on 08-21-2009
Custom Panels in Silverlight/WPF Part 1: MeasureOverride

This is Part 1 of my series of posts dedicated to creating an animating and virtualizing WrapPanel for Silverlight. If you missed the Introduction I suggest you take a look. Before we write any code for our custom panel we have to decide what the layout of the panel’s children should be. For this example...

Posted to Like pancakes... (Weblog) by lroth on 08-21-2009
Custom Panels in Silverlight/WPF: Introduction

One of the most important concepts in UI design is the ability to organize your UI however you want. The framework panels all have their uses, but don’t allow the type of customization that is sometimes required. In order to create your own panels there are a couple of relatively simple steps that must...

Posted to Like pancakes... (Weblog) by lroth on 08-21-2009
WPF Drag and Drop Between ItemsControls

Last week I blogged about a generic Drag and Drop framework . That post focused on the framework and gave some simple implementations of it, but didn’t get into more practical examples. So, in honor of Opening Day, here’s a quick example of how to use the framework to create the Cincinnati Reds batting...

Posted to Like pancakes... (Weblog) by lroth on 04-06-2009
WPF Image Sequencer (for png sequences)

Working with the illustrious design team at here at Clarity has opened my eyes about the user experience limitations of coding. Specifically, some of their concepts for a particular animation are great but just can’t be done (or at least not easily) with the built-in WPF animations. And that is where...

Posted to Like pancakes... (Weblog) by lroth on 04-02-2009
Generic WPF Drag and Drop Adorner

I was recently working with a WPF application where we wanted drag and drop functionality. We were going to have multiple types of draggable items and different drop locations, and being the conscientious programmer that I am, I wanted to make something as generic as possible. I started from Bea Stollnitz...

Posted to Like pancakes... (Weblog) by lroth on 03-31-2009
Silverlight March Madness Bracket Application

Last week was the start of the NCAA men's basketball tournament, aka March Madness. I did the obligatory bracket predictions via the usual sites, but noticed this could be an excellent opportunity to showcase Silverlight. Jeff had been tossing around the idea of creating something like this for awhile...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 03-25-2009
Twitterlight to Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1

Ok ok, I've bitten the bullet and upgraded the Twitterlight Silverlight Twitter client to Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1. The Coding4Fun article has been updated with the latest source. The client is live at twitterlight.com . The major updates involved changing how some of the synchronous web service calls...

Posted to Steve Holstad's "the bright lights" (Weblog) by sholstad on 04-01-2008

Page 1 of 2 (11 items) 1 2 Next >