Danke für die zahlreiche Teilnahme an meiner Session zu den WinRT-Controls zum Entwickeln von Windows Store Apps. Es war eine Level 3 (von 3) Session. Wie versprochen sind die Slides und Live-Demos unter folgendem Link verfügbar: www.thomasclaudiushuber.com/talks.php Bei Fragen, Feedback, Lob und Kritik...

This post is part of a series about creating Windows Store-apps with XAML and C#. Find the Content of the series here: Windows Store-apps with XAML and C# blog-series Last weekend I’ve finished the XAML-chapter of my upcoming book about developing Windows Store-apps with XAML and C#. I want to share...

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...

It has been really quiet for a long long time on this blog. I’ve had many amazing projects in the past half year. All about Windows Presentation Foundation. In my sparetime I focused on the HTML5-part, because I’m very interested in the development of mobile apps. I’ve also looked at...

Yesterday morning Microsoft launched Windows 8 at the BUILD-conference in Anaheim. Windows 8 has a completely new tile- and touch-based UI with the Metro-Style we already know from Windows Phone 7. For us as Developers the big question was how to develop applications for Windows 8. Microsoft already...

An der GUI & Design-Konferenz in Nürnberg durfte ich heute zwei Vorträge zu den Themen “Controls in WPF/Silverlight designen und entwickeln” und “Hardwarenahe Programmierung in WPF/Silverlight mit Pixelshadern” halten. Bei Ihnen als Teilnehmer möchte ich mich an dieser Stelle recht herzlich für das...

Those of you, who have already developed with WPF “and” Silverlight might know, that Silverlight contains a different XAML-Parser than WPF does. Some days ago I read on the blog of Rob Relyea a great post about the XAML-Compilers, which create the g.cs- and (only for WPF) the .baml-Files. Rob is talking...

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...

Two classes inherit from DataSourceProvider. XmlDataProvider and ObjectDataProvider. ObjectDataProvider wraps an object and allows you to bind to the wrapped object in XAML. The ObjectDataProvider has a ConstructorParameters-Property for creating an object by using a constructor with parameters. The...

The XmlDataProvider class enables Binding to XML inside XAML. This will allow you to bind e.g. to the rss feed of a blog like http://www.thomasclaudiushuber.com/blog/feed/, cause rss is simple XML. A XmlDataProvider-Element is declared as a logic resource. You simply set the Source-Property to a XML...

In many applications you want to fill up a ListView or a GridView with some data. In WPF applications you set the View-Property of the ListView to a GridView to show the data nicely in columns. In most cases you have an entity class (think of it as a "real" entity class or a DataRow [...]