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Latest Content

How Do I: Build My First WPF Application

In this video, Pete Brown walks you through the process of creating a first WPF application. The application pulls tweets from Twitter using the free TweetSharp library , WPF 4 and...

Create WPF Master – Detail UI Using Data Sources Window Object DataSource

Master – Detail layouts are the bread and butter of Line of Business (LOB) applications. This video will show you how to drag & drop from the Data Sources Window to create the UI...

Layout Techniques for Windows Forms Developers

In a typical Windows Forms application control placement is set using the Location property, setting the X and Y sub property values. The Windows Forms designer provides a complete...

Grid Control Design-Time Row and Column Manipulation Features

This short walk-through video demonstrates to WPF and Silverlight developers the new Grid control design-time features for manipulating rows and columns on the design surface. These...

Lab: What’s Coming in WPF: Datagrid, Ribbon, and VSM

The next version of Windows Presentation Foundation will offer a whole new set of controls for you to utilize in building a state of the art desktop application. In this lab we will...

Lab: Build Your Own HLSL Shader Effect Lab

Create a simple, single input HLSL shader Effect and utilize it in WPF application. Then use Parameters and C# Dependency Properties to animate it.

RecipeBox: Expression Blend Hands On Lab

RecipeBox is an application written in C# which loads a set of recipes from an XML file and displays them using the Windows Presentation Foundation. WPF controls can be given customized...

WPF Input Validation Part 1: Tutorial and examples

This is the beginning of a series of articles focused on creating and applying custom validation rules the most effective way. I’ll discuss this in an incremental way, building up a...

Update app.config key value at run time in WPF

In this article I am going to show how we can update a key value in app.config file in WPF. For this add reference of System.Configuration in your application.