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Apologies to my readers, but my blog has a been little quiet of late.  Hopefully I'll be able to share the reasons for this with everyone soon!  In the meantime, here's a WPF/E sample I've been meaning to post for some time. Essentially it's a button that looks like it's made of glass.  The button pulsates when ...

There are two main ways to develop WPF/E within Visual Studio 2005 - one is to edit the XAML in the XML Editor, and the other is to use Cider, the XAML WPF designer.  There are pros and cons to each approach, and some configuration for each. Using Cider Cider is the Visual Studio designer for WPF and XAML and is shown to the right.  It ...

So you've installed the WPF/E runtime and played with a few samples.  You've probably also installed the WPF/E SDK and opened up some of the sample source code.  What next?  Write your own WPF/E code, of course!  Adam Kinney has posted a video on Channel 9 about Getting Started with WPF/E. It's worth a ...

Trying out some of the WPF/E samples, I noticed some rather odd behaviour.  I loaded a sample directly off my file system and was rewarded with a blank security and a notice that Internet Explorer was blocking some active content.  I then setup a virtual directory on my local IIS instance and everything was fine.  You can see the ...

The Dec 2006 CTP of WPF/E is now available for download.  If you're interested in this, you'll want to check out the following links:Download the Windows CTP at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=77792&clcid=0x409 and the Macintosh version at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=77793&clcid=0x409There is an SDK ...

There's been some noise recently about WPF Everywhere (or WPF/E), a technology which was announced at PDC05 and Joe Stegman from Microsoft demonstrated at MIX06.  Here I'm going to collect together a few web resources about this technology. So what is it?  According to Mike Harsh's Blog:It is a cross-platform, ...