Greetings from rainy Southern California! Just posted three new Web seminars on Windows Presentation Foundation. These continue the WPF 4 series I’ve been working on, and two of them have accompanying source code:
- Binding in Windows Presentation Foundation 4 [code]
- Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows 7 [code]
- The Windows Presentation Foundation Designer
Enjoy!
UPDATE: Just posted the final “WPF 4″ video in the series, “XAML Browser Applications”. Source code here.
#1 by Reng-EDV on January 19, 2010 - 1:08 am
Hello Bill,
well I have viewed some of your WPF 4.0 Presentation Videos. Well, nice work, but, why you don´t use the designer in Video 1, where you introduce the new controls (is it so time “consuming”)
I ithink, this is the problem with the WPF. If you want to start a BIG PROJECT, well, …..
And, if you have customers, who use this unknown OS Windows XP, how nice and how quick are these applications there.
Don´t copy the Apple stuff on Windows.
Regards
Karl-Heinz Reng
#2 by bill on January 21, 2010 - 11:11 am
Hi Karl-Heinz,
Good question re: using designer to add the new controls… You’re right, I certainly could have used the designer to drag-and-drop the new controls into each TabItem. But in order to support WYSIWYG layout, when you drag a control onto the design surface, the designer sets certain properties (Horizontal/VerticalAlignment, Margin, Width, Height)… Sure you could remove these properties but I find I’m often more productive by coding in XAML from the start. My goal with the source code is to make it easy to grasp, and sometimes the extra layout properties get in the way of clarity (at least it seems like that to me). As far as performance on XP, I think WPF does perfectly well so long as you don’t overdo the “glitz” factor (animations/opacity/etc). Cheers!