Archive for January, 2008

WPF Part 6 - Working with XamlPad

Monday, 28. January 2008 23:10

This article is a short introduction and overview of XamlPad and it's features. With XamlPad you can easily test your XAML code snippets at real time. Unlike the XAML designer in Visual Studio 2008, it's lightweight, very fast and thereby a great way to view the results of your GUI development. [...]

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WPF Part 5 - Processing XAML

Saturday, 26. January 2008 21:24

In this article I will show you some methods to process XAML. With "process" I mean the abilities to use the visual and the logical element tree and the possibilities to write and read XAML. [...]

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WPF Part 4 - A closer look at XAML

Thursday, 24. January 2008 20:03

This is only a short article, because there aren't so many things left at XAML I could talk about, but I think, it would be better to separate them from the last part of this series.

Ok, what I'm talking about? I will write about the built-in markup and language extensions and about the dependency and attached properties of XAML and WPF. [...]

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WPF Part 3 - The basic concepts of XAML

Tuesday, 22. January 2008 21:18

After I've learned much about the possibilities XAML and the WPF can give us developers, I would like to review the basic concepts of XAML. As I mentioned in the last article and as you'll see at first glance, XAML is based on XML. This means that every XAML file has a root element that includes all other elements. Furthermore all elements must be nested correctly. [...]

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WPF Part 2 - Possibilities with XAML

Sunday, 20. January 2008 20:13

A huge change in WPF and the way a developer creates a GUI for an application is XAML (eXtensible Application Markup Language). It's an declarative XML-based language used to describe an GUI in WPF or a workflow in Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). [...]

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WPF Part 1 - Preamble and requirements

Friday, 18. January 2008 15:30

Hello everybody,

it's done! No no... not the whole WPF article series and the other stuff I would blog about :). After one and a half week I think I became just enough acquainted with WordPress and the plugin system it uses. I think I'm ready to fill my technical blog with some hopefully interesting articles.

This is the beginning of the WPF series. [...]

Category: WPF | Comments (0) | Author: Fabian