Articles by Tom F Wright (Articles: 7)

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WPF	ZoomBoxPanel implementing a choice of page view zoom modes in WPF: Part 1 21 Oct 2009 Updated: 21 Oct 2009 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.71 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 28,692 Bookmarked: 27 Downloaded: 997 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Think of the way Adobe Reader and Google Earth let the user scale and rotate their content in different ways. Making these capabilities easily available in WPF is the goal of this custom control.
	ZoomBoxPanel: add custom commands to a WPF control: Part 2 26 Oct 2009 Updated: 26 Oct 2009 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.07 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 45,712 Bookmarked: 21 Downloaded: 1,386 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article extends ZoomBoxPanel to support both standard and custom commands to zoom and rotate the contents.
	ZoomBoxPanel, Adding a Fade Out Subsidiary Slider Control: Part 4 6 Nov 2009 Updated: 21 Nov 2009 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 5.10 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 49,733 Bookmarked: 37 Downloaded: 1,906 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article adds a new subsidiary slider control to control the ZoomBoxPanel. The slider is designed to sit on top of the visual content and fade into the background when not in use, similar to the sliders in Google Earth and Visual Studio.
	ZoomBoxPanel, Adding Full Mouse Support and Animation to a WPF Custom Control: Part 3 3 Nov 2009 Updated: 21 Nov 2009 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.29 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 53,304 Bookmarked: 36 Downloaded: 2,102 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article extends ZoomBoxPanel to support the use of the mouse and the mouse wheel in different modes, and in addition, animation is added for zoom transitions.
	WPF Enum List Converter 12 Oct 2009 Updated: 12 Oct 2009 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.50 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 60,931 Bookmarked: 29 Downloaded: 1,386 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article demonstrates how to bind a C# enum definition to a WPF combobox, which is not as simple as it first seems.
	WPF Collapse Converters for easier data layouts 8 Oct 2009 Updated: 8 Oct 2009 Rating: 4.85/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.38 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 48,850 Bookmarked: 28 Downloaded: 1,863 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article demonstrates how WPF Converters can be used in an innovate way to replace the use of WPF Triggers in a common user interface task.
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C#	Flexibox – A Silverlight alternative to Lightbox 10 Mar 2010 Updated: 10 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.41 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 32,781 Bookmarked: 21 Downloaded: 201 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Flexibox is an alternative to Lightbox, displaying multiple resolutions of an image without needing a popup overlay. Flexibox shows how a Silverlight app can resize itself with a page.

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Tom F Wright

Software Developer

United Kingdom

Tom has been developing software for 20 years and has done a lot of different stuff. Recently this has mostly been C# WPF/Silverlight, ASP.Net and Ruby On Rails.

Blog: http://rightondevelopment.blogspot.com/