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Inserting 3D Models in Expression Blend

by Meshack Musundi

Inserting a 3D object into a WPF project in Expression Blend, with some help from Blender

Customized Scrolling in Silverlight using Expression Blend

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Customized Scrolling in Silverlight using Expression Blend

Silverlight 4 Video Player

by defwebserver

An example of a Silverlight 4 View Model Style video player that is not just 'skinable' but fully 'designable'.

Rubberband Behavior for WPF ListBox

by Jawahar Suresh Babu

The article describes how to implement Rubberband behavior for WPF Listbox. Also it describes how to add the behavior using Expression Blend.

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WPF: Rubik's Cube

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A WPF 3D Rubik's Cube application

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by Georgeutc

Adding sliding functionality to UWP XAML SplitView

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Expression-blend

Inserting 3D Models in Expression Blend

20 Jun 2013

Meshack Musundi

Inserting a 3D object into a WPF project in Expression Blend, with some help from Blender

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WPF

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Customized Scrolling in Silverlight using Expression Blend

13 Nov 2010

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Customized Scrolling in Silverlight using Expression Blend

Silverlight 4 Video Player

8 May 2011

defwebserver

An example of a Silverlight 4 View Model Style video player that is not just 'skinable' but fully 'designable'.

Rubberband Behavior for WPF ListBox

16 Jun 2012

Jawahar Suresh Babu

The article describes how to implement Rubberband behavior for WPF Listbox. Also it describes how to add the behavior using Expression Blend.

Meteor Madness

22 Oct 2012

Adrian Akison

Submission of Meteor Madness to The App Innovation Contest.

Don't Lose Your Marbles

23 Aug 2013

Adrian Akison

App Innovation Game for Lenovo Horizon All-In-One

Customizing Silverlight ChildWindow Style using Blend

8 Jan 2011

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this article, I will guide you through the steps of customization with the help of a sample application. We will need Microsoft Expression Blend for the full customization. Read the complete article to learn about it.

RiaTasks: Central Silverlight Business Rules Validation

13 Jul 2010

defwebserver

Using Fluent Validation on the website to validate business rules in a Silverlight application

Using EventTrigger in XAML for MVVM – No Code Behind

6 Nov 2010

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this article, I will show you how to fire Triggers to call some methods present in your ViewModel, instead of writing in the code behind file. Read more to learn about it.

How to Create a Silverlight OOB Installer Wrapper UI Library?

15 Jul 2010

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this article, I will guide you through creating a UI Wrapper Library for the installation experience of your Silverlight Out-of-Browser application.

WPF: Rubik's Cube

24 Sep 2014

Meshack Musundi

A WPF 3D Rubik's Cube application

Paginating Records in Silverlight DataGrid using PagedCollectionView

2 Jan 2011

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Do you have a huge collection of data inside your DataGrid and want to integrate Pagination to show records page by page and don’t know how to do? Then this article will help you to understand the same.

Silverlight Simple Drag And Drop / Or Browse View Model / MVVM File Upload Control

25 Jun 2011

defwebserver

An example of a Silverlight Drag And Drop / Or Browse File Upload Control using View Model / MVVM

Grouping Records in Silverlight DataGrid using PagedCollectionView

7 Dec 2010

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Do you work with Silverlight DataGrid and want to group your records inside the DataGrid in a proper manner? If so, this article is for you. Here we will learn about data grouping inside a DataGrid.

File Explorer using Silverlight 4 COM Interoperability

6 Jul 2010

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this article I will guide you creating a File Explorer in Silverlight 4. This step-by-step guide will help yoou understanding the API call and how to access local files, folders and drives using the Silverlight 4 COM APIs.

Text-to-Speech Application using Silverlight 4 COM API

2 Jul 2010

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this article, I will demonstrate in a step-by-step manner how we can create a Text-to-Speech application using the COM APIs in Silverlight 4. Read it. Learn and Vote for this Article. Feedback and/or Suggestions are most welcome.

WPF 2D Image Carousel

18 Mar 2011

Meshack Musundi

A 2D carousel like UserControl in WPF

Silverlight Super Tabs Interface (using View Model / MVVM)

14 Nov 2010

defwebserver

Dynamically creating tabs of different types in the same Tab Control

Targets

15 Apr 2011

Meshack Musundi

A WPF Target Shooting Game

How to Use New Rupee Symbol of India in Silverlight?

20 Jul 2010

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this post, I will describe how to integrate the new symbol for the Indian Rupee in Silverlight application.

Expression Blendable Silverlight View Model Communication

26 Sep 2010

defwebserver

Easily implement two-way communication between Master and Child View Models that works with Microsoft Expression Blend

Creating a discrete value slider in Silverlight

22 Dec 2013

Kashif_Imran

The article shows the proecess of creating and using a discrete value slider for Silverlight.

WPF Image Viewer

21 Jul 2010

Meshack Musundi

Learn how to create a WPF image viewer in Expression Blend.

DeepZoom

24 Feb 2009

Sacha Barber

An article showing how to do DeepZoom in Silverlight 2.0.

Working with Multiple Click (ClickCount) in Silverlight 5 Beta

20 Apr 2011

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Silverlight 5 Beta has been announced with newly added feature called ClickCount. It's a property added to the MouseButtonEventArgs. Using this, you will be able to find out how many multiple clicks happened by the user.

Contextfilter for DataGrid

19 Sep 2013

Torsten Tiedt

Enables filtering in standard DataGrid control.

Building Better Buttons in Expression Blend and Silverlight

3 Apr 2010

Alan Beasley

Beginner's guide to building robust, scalable, and easily editable buttons

Silverlight RIA Tasks 2: Dynamic View Models

18 Jul 2010

defwebserver, Alan Beasley, hisowa

Creating multiple dynamic Views using View Model Style and the Silverlight Tab Control.

Silverlight View Model Communication

25 Sep 2010

defwebserver

An example of Silverlight View Model communication between Master and Child View Models

Surfaces in Windows Presentation Foundation

26 Nov 2010

logicchild

An article that demonstrates how both Simple and Parametric surfaces are drawn

Customizing Group Row Header of Silverlight DataGrid

20 Jan 2011

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

This article will definitely help you. Here, I will show you how to modify the XAML to add different content to create a multi level row group header too.

WPF: P2P Chess

27 Jun 2011

Meshack Musundi

A WPF Peer-to-Peer chess application that utilizes WCF and PNM.

WPF: Belt Clock

16 May 2012

Meshack Musundi

A WPF belt clock

Silverlight Report Viewer using View Model (MVVM)

13 Dec 2011

defwebserver

Viewing .rdlc reports from Silverlight using View Model (MVVM)

A Pendulum and its Corresponding Oscillations Shown in WPF

4 Nov 2010

logicchild

An article that illustrates how to simulate a pendulum.

Beginners Guide to Silverlight 4 PathListBox Control (Part–I)

27 Jul 2010

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this article, I will guide you to understand the functionality of this control. Also, I will guide you step-by-step to create your first PathListBox control demo application. Here we will create the above two samples where the collection of texts will position them in proper location on the edge

Skinning a WPF App in Blend

23 Jan 2011

Meshack Musundi

Learn how to skin a WPF application in Expression Blend.

The Anatomy of a WPF Application

11 Aug 2010

logicchild

An article that both explains the Hows and Whys behind WPF.

Drawing Fractals via WPF

8 Nov 2010

logicchild

Why recursion in C# works well when using WPF.

Step-by-Step Guide to Silverlight Shape Controls

12 Sep 2010

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this article, I am going to describe each shape and the process of adding it in our application (whenever we need to). This article is for the beginners who don’t know much about the shape controls.

Using the Silverlight DataGrid with View Model / MVVM

8 Aug 2010

defwebserver

The Silverlight DataGrid using inline editing, paging, sorting, and button events, using the View Model.

WPF Metro: A Win8 Start Screen 'Clone'

29 Sep 2011

Meshack Musundi

A WPF application that replicates the Windows 8 Start screen

WPF Suanpan

3 Apr 2011

Meshack Musundi

A WPF abacus

Filtering Records in Silverlight DataGrid using PagedCollectionView

7 Dec 2010

Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this article, we will see how this PagedCollectionView will help us to filter out the records based on the search keyword. Not much code but the trick done with the same class will do everything for us in some easy way. We will learn about this here in this article.

Server Side, Data Driven Image Rendering in ASP.NET MVC and XAML for Web Apps

3 Nov 2010

Anoop Pillai

The article explain Server side image rendering using data bound XAML. You'll be able to render WPF controls and create data-bound image visualizations using this technique

A Purely XAML Coded Animated Bezier Curve via WPF

26 Apr 2011

logicchild

Using animation via XAML code to draw a Bezier curve object.

Receiving Mail through the POP3 Protocol & MIME Parser

29 Sep 2011

Alеksey Nemiro

This article describes how to create a simple class library to get the mail through the POP3 protocol and MIME parser.

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Windows

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Magnifying Effect in WPF

10 Mar 2011

Meshack Musundi

Creating a magnification effect in WPF and how to use my Magnifier control

Drawing Trig Functions via WPF

26 Aug 2010

logicchild

An article that demonstrates how to write C# to draw via the WPF engine

Highly Customizable Data Grids in Expression Blend

4 Apr 2011

Curtis Taylor

Explore the fast and highly customizable UI controls in Infragistics NetAdvantage for WPF Line of Business from the perspective of a Microsoft Expression Blend user. In revealing much of the data grid’s object model, I cover some of the more popular ways to format and style grids in Blend.