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Will it Blend: Custom Scrollbar in WPF

DISCLAIMER: I write this post more for myself because I tend to forget how to do things. There can very well be other proper ways of doing this, but this is the “good enough” solution, at least for me.

I was playing around with WPF again since it’s been a while. I wanted [...]

iPadding V1 – The Designer Story

With the whole iPad buzz going around last week, I decided to build last friday’s TechFriday app around the theme.

Introducing iPadding v1! It’s basically a WPF application that allows you to drag and drop shortcuts onto the screen and save it for when it’s presentation time. My desktop is constantly cluttered and as [...]

Making Your Win7 JumpLists Trigger on the Same Application Instance

As promised in my previous post, I’ll be talking about how to create jumplist integrated single instance applications, much like how Outlook, Windows Media Player.

At first, i thought it would need to involve a bit of windows messaging but then I found this blog post that details how to create single instance [...]

Managing WPF Screens with Windows 7 Jumplists and the Visual State Manager

We’re having our Singapore launch of Windows 7 this November and in honor of that, I’ll be devoting my upcoming (and long overdue) TechFridays to everything Windows 7. For this post, I’ll be talking about how you can use the Visual State Manager for WPF to manage the different screen states in your [...]

Tech Friday: The Orientator

I was thinking of an app to build for tech Friday and I remember running in to @willyfoo the other day. He mentioned he needed an application that would read in EXIF data from photographs and rotate them based on the orientation meta tag. It was quite a good exercise cause it allowed [...]

Understanding Prism V2

Here are some videos on Channel 9 that walk through building an application using the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight

Creating Modular Applications Visual Composition Implementing Views and Services Decoupled Communication

Professional Developer Conference 2008

For those of us who aren’t able to attend this year’s Professional Developer Conference, the good news is, all the content they’re delivering will be available online through the site http://www.microsoftpdc.com This feed (http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/pdc2008/RSS/?tag=videos) will give you all the sessions that have been recorded and posted on Channel 9 (it’s a lot of [...]