.Net Gate : WPF & WPF/E

Expression Tools - Let us Play with it

hus — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:28:00 GMT

Well it's time to you guys to start playing with the expression tools introduced by Microsoft it's currently for free for the it's beta versions.

Microsoft Expression takes the many sides of your creative personality to all new levels. Professional design tools give you greater flexibility to create sophisticated applications and content

so it's time guys here you go

http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/default.mspx

Enjoy coding for FUN

Video-Viewing Albums with WPF/E control hosted in ASP.NET page

hus — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 09:07:00 GMT

Well guys am currently reading about the WPF/E and it's architecture while browsing i got toward a nice video that goes through creating an Album viewer using the WPF/E SDK and AJAX and running it inside ASP.NET 2.0

here you go

http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin/archive/2007/01/05/viewing-albums-with-wpf-e-and-asp-net-ajax.aspx

Source Code download here

ENJOY the FUN :D:D

“WPF/E” (codename) Software Development Kit (SDK) Download now

hus — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 10:24:00 GMT

WPF/E by Microsoft delivers rich, cross-platform, interactive experiences including animation, graphics, audio, and video for the Web.

Download and install the Community Technology Preview (CTP) release of the WPF/E Software Development Kit (SDK) that enables you to build rich browser-based experiences with animation, video and audio simply using web-standards friendly AJAX and XAML for presentation.

Enjoy the Ride ;)

Crossbow “Windows Forms and WPF Interop”

hus — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 10:18:00 GMT

Well, yes it’s real you can add WPF controls and XAML forms to your .NET 2.0 Windows forms application ,
First of all add references to the WPF namespaces (PresentationCore, PresentationFramework, UIAutomationProvider, UIAutomationTypes, and WindowsBase).

The second step is creating an instance of the ElementHost control and the control you wish to add to your form
and then add that control to the ElementHost control. Then add the ElementHost control to your Forms control collection.

In addition, you will need to modify the project file because the Windows Application does not know what to do with the XAML file. You will need to open the project file (.csproj, etc.) in an editor like Notepad and then scroll to the bottom. You will see the following line:

<Import Project="$(MSBuildBinPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
You will need to copy this line and paste it just below the above line and then change "CSharp" to "WinFX" so that the two lines look like:

<Import Project="$(MSBuildBinPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
<Import Project="$(MSBuildBinPath)\Microsoft.WinFx.targets" />
Now save this file and reload the project using VS and run the application.

A sample code for the code you will be adding to your windows form that will host the WPF control
//add to your Windows form
ElementHost host = new ElementHost();
WPFUsercontrol uc1 = new WPFUsercontrol ();
host.Controls.Add(uc1);
host.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
this.panel1.Controls.Add(host);

Enjoy :D

Creating "WPF/E" components inside your page

hus — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 16:07:00 GMT

While browsing today about the "WPF/E" i found a nice post that i thought to share with you, it's from Shawn Burke's blog, it's about creating a "WPF/E" extender to host the XAML files you want to add to your web application

Click Here to read the post

Enjoy :)