The June CTP of .Net Framework 3.0 was released on Friday. One new June CTP feature that I am very excited to introduce is a new property on Window called AllowsTransparency. AllowsTransparency enables you to create those semi-transparent windows and rounded-corner windows for which many of you have been asking.
I have written a small sample […]
Archive for June, 2006
My little brother graduated from college today. Congrats Shawnie!
The Windows SDK online documentation is now live with Beta 2 content. The WPF content is under the WinFX node. My assumption is that that node will change to “.Net Framework 3.0″ at some point.
Here is a shot of about half of the WPF team members present at TechEd (they made me stand in front because I’m short). I’ll try to snag another this week with everyone.
Unfortunately the chalk talk schedule is not provided in any of the printed TechEd materials, but we on the WPF team are resourceful folks, and we put together this high-tech alternative:
Our demo booth is a bit hidden, so it may be hard to find by the signage, but you can always just look for our […]
The brand new WPF community website is live! Check out the aggregate feed for WPF blogs, another feed for forum posts, a sample gallery (you can download samples or post your own), and news and announcements about WPF. We hope that this will be a great resource for WPF developers and designers, and we’d love […]
Here’s a cheat sheet if you want to attend all of the WPF talks at TechEd:
Date
Time
Code
Title
Speaker
Mon 6/12
9:00am-10:15am
DEV 202
WPF: Introduction
Rob Relyea
Mon 6/12
5:00pm-6:15pm
DEVTLC 05
WPF: Interop with Win32 and MFC
Nick Kramer
Tue 6/13
2:45pm-4:00pm
DEVTLC 09
WPF: Data Visualization
Kevin Moore, Beatriz Costa, & Robert Ingebretsen
Tue 6/13
4:30pm-5:45pm
DEVTLC 10
WPF: XAML Browser Applications and the Partial Trust Sandbox
Karen Corby & Ashish Shetty
Wed 6/14
10:15am-11:30am
DEV 326
WPF: Building […]
TechEd 2006 began tonight in Boston with a keynote featuring Bob Muglia and Chris Capossela. There was a lot of energy in the room, and a set of very cool videos spoofing the show “24″ (which seemed to be filmed primarily inside of the Seattle Library!)
I’ll be working the Windows Presentation Foundation demo station and […]
Here’s a list of a few WPF samples that I want to write soon (in no particular order):
Building a FileUpload control
Removing/restyling the NavigationWindow UI
Displaying HTML inside of your WPF application
Using URL arguments to enable “deep linking” for XBAPs
Using Popup as a dialog in XBAPs
I’m posting the list here so that I don’t forget. But […]
