BenCon's WebLogWindows User Interface Musings2B0ST0N6 day one- July 31, 2006 This is the first of my posts describing my experiences at SIGGRAPH 2006. I will try to have a post every day summarizing what I see. Everything here is my personal opinion. The first day of the conference is a little more low key than the other days, by the look of things. The exhibition is still being set up (you can see it when you walk across bridges) and there are no paper presentations. There are courses, however, and given that there was not much else going on I decided to go to one to...http://blogs.msdn.com/bencon/archive/2006/07/31/684233.aspx Changing Panels and DataTemplates with ItemsControls in WPFAvalon- July 27, 2006 I have posted before about the philosophy behind the ItemsControl, and now I will pull together some concepts from previous posts. I will use the RadialPanel and some ValueConverter magic to show how we can take a ListBox (the most famous of the ItemsControl family) and have it: Respond to changes to a data collection. Swap between using a radial and stacking panel. Swap between showing the text of the items and showing the hash of the items. One of the first things we need to do in order to.http://blogs.msdn.com/bencon/archive/2006/07/26/679696.aspx More advanced attached property use: the Ramora pattern- July 26, 2006 I like to think of the technique I am about to demonstrate as the Ramora pattern - it allows you to attach a chunk of logic to any existing element that you have. The RadialPanel example showed an example of storing information on an element using attached properties. In that example, we did not need to know when the property changed because we used the appropriate metadata to tell WPF that it affected the arrange part of the parent's layout. What we will build now is a simple app that shows a.http://blogs.msdn.com/bencon/archive/2006/07/26/more-advanced-attached-property-use-the-ra... Running a blog is hard- July 25, 2006 I finally found the settings in my blog that allow me to keep track of comments. For some reason, I thought that it was set to notify me when I got comments and it was not. While I was there I found the old comments that I neglected to moderate and pushed them out. Sorry for the lateness in moderation folks. Hopefully it will get better. At least only two people were affected. If I had readership like Scoble then a lot more people would be stuck in moderation :) Richard Morgan asked a good...http://blogs.msdn.com/bencon/archive/2006/07/24/677549.aspx Attached properties - the basics- July 25, 2006 One of the coolest features in Avalon is the property subsystem. While it might seem difficult for some that Avalon has a property system built on top of the normal CLR properties, the power that this system gives you is incredible and is part of why a lot of scenarios in Avalon require less code than their counterparts in other systems. One cool thing that the property system in Avalon allows is attached properties. The simplest way to explain an attached property is that it allows the place...http://blogs.msdn.com/bencon/archive/2006/07/24/677520.aspx |