C# syntactic noise: no response
It looks like “C# future” forum is not monitored, or everyone is on vacation. My post from August 27 is still without replly
Animated properties in view model: update
I received a response to my question on the Microsoft WPF forum. Will investigate and report the results here.
One more time about TFS
Every day when I open my solution in Visual Studio I get this message box: After that Visual Studio checks out my solution file and a number of project files, […]
WPF: Cannot Combine Bindings and Other Text
It is not a big deal, but still unpleasant. It is not possible to do something like <TextBlock Text=”Speed: {Binding Path=Speed} mph” /> The text in the squiggles appears verbatim […]
Fancy Borders
I was trying to draw a “raised” border around my control, something resembling a 3D window border in Windows. I.e. something like white on the outside, gray in the middle, […]
Dependency Properties
Dependency properties are a special feature of WPF that is similar in principal to regular .NET properties, with at least two functional distinctions: They support change notifications They support special […]
Custom Meshes
As I already mentioned, typing mesh positions by hand is not scalable, even for the simplest things like a cube. Meshes must be generated either by a tool or by […]
Lights, Camera, Model!
These are three main components of a WPF 3D scene. In fact, it should be more like “Lights, Camera, GeometryModel3D”, but “GeometryModel3D” looks ugly and messes up the rhythm of […]
The Rotating Cube
Continuing to explore WPF, I wandered into the world of 3D. I decided to start small: let’s display a rotating cube. I built a little sample that is available here […]
WPF: Pack URIs: what's the point of all the commas?
WPF uses “pack” URI schema to point to resources. An absolute pack URI looks like this: pack://application:,,,/ResourceFile.xaml The schema is described in this MSDN article and they claim the URIs […]