In the course of my building our ROI app, I was trying to figure out how to wrap the legends of charts when the text gets too long. This is what I get with the default chart. You’ll see here, there’s a lot of waste of space for the legend when what I really want… Continue reading Will it Blend: Wrapping the Text on Silverlight Chart Legends
Tag: WPF
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 to customize… Continue reading Will it Blend: Custom Scrollbar in WPF
TechFriday: 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 much… Continue reading TechFriday: iPadding V1 – The Designer Story
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 WPF applications.… Continue reading Making Your Win7 JumpLists Trigger on the Same Application 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 application in… Continue reading Managing WPF Screens with Windows 7 Jumplists and the Visual State Manager
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 me to… Continue reading Tech Friday: The Orientator
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 content!) I… Continue reading Professional Developer Conference 2008
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