Archive for May, 2008

WPF Direct3D Interop

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

There are some very interesting posts I missed the last days. Since .NET 3.5 SP1 perfectly integrates WPF with DirectX, a number of cool effects can finally be applied: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/WPFPixelShader.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/greg_schechter/archive/2008/05/12/introduction-to-writing-effects.aspx http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-framework-3-5-service-pack-1-beta.aspx Some of those effects were on Dax Pandhi's wish list for WPF (http://blog.nukeation.com/post/My-wishlist-for-the-next-release-of-WPF.aspx) for quite some time. More importantly, the integration of WPF ...

A MenuKiller Control - Draft

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

This is just a draft on my upcoming article. I have asked a number of WPF Gurus to help me out on this... Introduction In an effort to take user experience to the next level, designers have come up with ideas on how to solve old problems in a new way. In ...