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For the past few weeks I have been working on a project primarily using WPF/E and ASP.NET AJAX. Now as WPF/E is supposed to be cross-browser and cross platform, we were hoping our WPF/E site (which works fine in IE 7) would work in Firefox without needing any tricks or changes to the code, well that was not entirely true but the good news is there ...

Blend Design View

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 ...

Hmm. This works:   <Rectangle x:Name="MyAnimatedRectangle" Canvas.Left="100" Canvas.Top ="100" Width="100" Height="100" Fill="Blue"> <DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="MyAnimatedRectangle" Storyboard.TargetProperty="Width" From="200" ...

I've caught the WPF/E (Windows Presentation Foundation / Everywhere ) buzz and so I decided to start playing with it. As it happens I have all the right tools: I've done a lot of javascript programming recently, I have Visual Studio 2005 installed, and I downloaded the cross platform browser plugin and SDK bits ...

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 ...