In Windows Store Apps there are three kinds of Touch-Events: Gesture Events – those are high-level-events like Tapped or RightTapped. Pointer-Events – low-level-events like PointerPressed, PointerMoved, PointerReleased. Manipulation-Events – low-level-events for multi-touch actions like rotate, scale...

Since yesterday evening Winodws 8 RTM is out for developers. This blogpost is the start of a blog-series about developing Windows Store-apps with XAML and C#. The series consists of some informational and some “how-to” posts: XAML in Windows Store-apps Understanding Modern UI, WinRT and .NET (for Windows...

Thanks to all who attended in my session at TechDays 2011 in Basel. My Live-Demo is available via the link below. TechDays Basel - LiveDemo - Download here The .zip-File contains a .bak-File that you can restore via SQL Server Management Studio by chosing “Restore Database” from the contextmenu when...

It has been quiet here for some weeks. After I had finished my Silverlight book I just enjoyed the unfamiliar free time I had on Saturday and Sunday. I just used it for hanging around with my family and friends. Now I’m back in the optimum of work-life-balance. I’m going to start a series of [...]

Hallo liebe Teilnehmer der WPF 4.0-Session. Anbei finden Sie die Links zu den Slides und zu den live programmierten Demos des Vortrags. Viel Spass damit und bis morgen zur Silverlight 4.0 Session. Slides und Demos

If you’ve played around with Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate (RC), you sure have noticed that it’s pretty fast. E.g. the WPF- and Silverlight-Designers come up quickly and much faster that in Visual Studio 2008. But for now there are some reasons to wait before installing Visual Studio 2010 RC:...

The BASTA! (=Basic Days => in German Basis Tage) is “the” Conference in Germany about .NET. The BASTA! Spring is from 22nd to 26th February. I’ve two sessions there: one Wednesday (24. February) and one on Thursday (25th February). I’ll talk about the new features in WPF 4.0 and about the Model...

If you play around with the DataGrid in Silverlight and try some scenarios, maybe you come around the FormatException with the Message “Input String is not in a correct format”. You get this Exception if your Data-Object e.g. has a Property of type int and the user enters some characters in the DataGrid...

Silverlight 4 supports printing scenarios. It’s quite easy. Just create a PrintDocument instance, handle the PrintPage-Event and call the Print-Method. In the PrintPage-Event set the PageVisual-Property of the PrintPageEventArgs to a UIElement of your choice. If there are more pages, set the HasMorePages...

This week I’ve to deploy an ASP.NET application containing about 20 reports that have been created with the Crystal Reports Basic Runtime which is included in Visual Studio 2008. (By the way, the application also contains a lot of AJAX-Functionality. It uses the "AJAX Control Toolkit-based"...

Did you ever wanted to print a Form without calling any native code? Well, with Windows Forms and Visual Studio 2008 this is a really simple exercise. When you design your WinForms-Application you’ll find a Tab Visual Basic PowerPacks in the Toolbox of Visual Studio 2008. In this Tab, you’ll...

Last year I’ve written a german article for the dotnet-magazine about VisualStateManager in Silverlight. As this feature will also be part of WPF 4.0, take a look at the article, which is now available on my homepage. The article is also available on the homepage of Trivadis beside many other articles...

During the last months I was asked many times for the code of the Multcolumn-Dropdown that I’ve described in this post. I’ve just created a very small sample-application containing such a dropdown. You can download it here. If someone of you creates a control out of that source, I would be...

Last week we had a great WPF-afterwork-event at Microsoft Usergroup Switzerland (MSUGS) sponsored by Trivadis. I gave a deep-dive session about developing custom controls using WPF with many of it’s features like Dependency Properties, Commands, Routed Events, PART-Elements, Theme-Styles and so...

I’m just finishing the Animation-Chapter of my German-speaking WPF book (WPF-Buch erscheint im Juni 2008). I had a hard time to find a good idea how to show the reader animations in a really "non-boring", but easy way. And I think I’ve found one. Animations in WPF are really powerful...

Wednesday at TechEd was another "linqy" day for me. In the morning I joined the session "LINQ to XML", with speaker Mike Taulty. With LINQ to XML there is a new XML-API as Part of .NET 3.5 which sits in the namespace System.Xml.Linq. LINQ to XML makes it easy to create and edit XML documents...

Last week I went to Barcelona for five days, participating at TechEd Developers 2007 (05. - 09. november). In the following posts I’ll just show you a short summary of my experience at TechEd Developers 2007. Let’s start on Monday. On Monday the Keynote-Session started after a life grafiti...