Until we meet again...- August 23, 2008 You left so sudden I couldn't even say goodbye. You've lived a hard life, but did everything to make mine easier. Your faith, courage and love will continue to live on through your words and wishes: "Love one another". I'll miss you, Mom!http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheAttic/~3/386030804/Until-we-meet-again_2E002E002E00_.asp... Creating splash screens with Expression Designer- August 15, 2008 Did you know you can create cool looking splash screens for your WPF application right there with the Expression Designer Of course you did. Expression Designer provides you with all you need to create free-shaped, part-transparent, drop-shadowed graphics and I bet the the WPF splash screen support is going to be baked into the next release of Expression Blend as well. This is a quick walk through designing a splash screen with the Expression Designer. 1. With Expression Designer open,...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheAttic/~3/366036272/Creating-splash-screens-with-Expressi... Splash Screen in WPF 3.5 SP1- August 11, 2008 Besides improving application startup time, .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 also allows developers to add a splash screen to WPF applications. The splash screen is shown using native code, even before WPF application starts to load. In reality this means the splash screen would show immediately when application is started, and fade away a couple of seconds later, when application is fully loaded and main screen displayed. WPF Splash screen is just and nothing more than a plain bitmap image. Common...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheAttic/~3/362299265/Splash-Screen-in-WPF.aspx |