July 2010 - Posts

Changing Hardware can Invalidate your Expression Blend License

Do software crises ever happen when you have plenty of free time to troubleshoot them?  I’m sure that they do,  it just doesn’t seem that way for me in the last few years.   Expression Blend Warning The first sign of trouble appeared as Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 27, 2010 2:51 AM by writscher | 0 Comments

The BringToFront Behavior

Are you a WPF history buff? If so you might be familiar with the attached behaviors story. It’s a short saga, but worthy of review. Back in the early days of WPF we were learning the nuances of the new XAML system. The attached property system was an Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 20, 2010 9:27 PM by writscher | 0 Comments

Shazzam Shader Editor 1.3 is now available

I work on an Open Source project called Shazzam Shader Editor.    This week, we released version 1.3. With this utility you can write, compile and test WPF/Silverlight shaders. You can learn more about this free tool at http://blog.shazzam-tool.com Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 14, 2010 2:51 PM by writscher | 0 Comments

Taking a Look at Content Controls

A fair portion of the time, the content of a FrameworkElement is text. Some elements, like TextBox and TextBlock make this obvious, by providing a Text property. The Text Property is of type String and it trivially easy to set in XAML. [example]   Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 14, 2010 1:23 PM by writscher | 0 Comments
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Playing with the Polyline

Let's say that you want to draw a line in WPF. You'd probably guess that there is a Line class in WPF that does the trick. You'd be right, as it turns out, there is such a class available in WPF. To use it you designate a start and end point, provide Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 06, 2010 4:35 AM by writscher | 0 Comments

Time to dust off this Blog

I spend a lot of time writing articles, blog posts and code.   Most of the blog posts I write are published on my wpfwonderland blog site.  But I hear from the students of my Wintellect classes that they’d like to see some posts here on Read More...
Posted Monday, July 05, 2010 7:18 PM by writscher | 0 Comments
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