Visual Studio 2010 SP1 now available(blogs.msdn.com)

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The final version of VS2010 sp1 is now avaialable for download read more...

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Silverlight 5 FireStarter(blogs.msdn.com)

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Today we announced the plans for the next version of Silverlight along with a bunch a demos at the FireStarter event. If you missed it, you can take a look at the recordings read more...

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WPF Ribbon (October Update Available)(blogs.msdn.com)

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October 2010 update of WPF Ribbon (on codeplex) is now available for download. read more...

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Xaml Art Assets(blogs.msdn.com)

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Was looking around for some interesting xaml artifacts for a sample project and this site had plenty of it. The clipart is pretty nice (as shown below)... Have fun.. read more...

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Porting WPF apps to Silverlight(blogs.msdn.com)

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The other day when browsing through the blogosphere I came across Arik's posts describing the workarounds\tips that he used for porting his 3.5 WPF application to Silverlight. read more...

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Using RibbonGallery Control(blogs.msdn.com)

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The Ribbon Control is a pretty big control owing to the complexity of the Ribbon design guidelines. You can give it a try by downloading from LINK read more...

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Zoomable Canvas Control(blogs.msdn.com)

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Kael has a nice series on the Zoomable Canvas control The usage is something like <ListBox.ItemsPanel> <ItemsPanelTemplate> <ZoomableCanvas Loaded="ZoomableCanvas_Loaded" RealizationLimit="1000" RealizationRate="10" RealizationPriority="Background"/> </ItemsPanelTemplate> </ListBox.ItemsPanel> read more...

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Xaml Toolkit: Manipulation of Xaml(blogs.msdn.com)

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One of the interesting things you could easily do with the Xaml Toolkit is manipulation of Xaml. For example, in the case of XamlPadX, if we copy pasted xaml from a WPF application, it wouldnt render because of events, unknown members and so forth. We would need to extract these members in order to make the xaml render read more...

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WPF Ribbon Basics(blogs.msdn.com)

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The WPF Ribbon control is easy to use once you get the basics of it. The structure is simple ... read more...

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Ribbon Control Design Time Experience(blogs.msdn.com)

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The Ribbon Control is now available to the public for download. If you havent taken a look yet, would definitely recommend it. A neat thing about this release is that it includes a design time plugin to VS. So out of the box you have a template in VS, when creating a new project read more...

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Running Xaml FXCop rules in FXCop GUI(blogs.msdn.com)

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So one of the uses of the XamlToolkit is to write FXCop rules for XAML. We provide the Microsoft.Tools.Xaml.FxCop.dll which has some inbuilt XAML rules that you can try out. You could also write new ones by referencing this dll. One of the queries I got in response to my previous post was how do i get the rules running. So here go the steps read more...

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Xaml Fxcop Rules Using Xaml Toolkit(blogs.msdn.com)

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Xaml Toolkit ... ding ding ding... if you heard and tried it..woohoo!!. If not, please go and give it a spin : Xaml Toolkit One of the nice things that you can do with it is write XAML FXCop rules. Now there has been a common ask of getting FXCop running on Xaml. read more...

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Announcing CTP of XAML Toolkit (blogs.msdn.com)

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We are happy to announce the release of the second CTP of the XAMLToolkit. Where do i get it: LINK read more...

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XAML Compliance Suite(blogs.msdn.com)

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Generally, when theres an open spec format, theres usually a set of tests that ensure that the spec is being followed right. As as example, the Acid tests help in deterning the support of web standards in different web browsers. So when it came to XAML, we decided that we should have a basic set of tests that can be used to determine whether the .. read more...

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BeeEye (Bing Image Viewer)(blogs.msdn.com)

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BeeEye is a Bing Image viewer application. Its got a very Blendish look ... read more...

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TestAPI V0.5 Released(blogs.msdn.com)

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TestAPI - It is a library of test and utility APIs that enables developers and testers to create testing tools and automated tests for .NET and Win32 applications. TestApi provides a set of common test building blocks -- types, data-structures and algorithms -- in a simple, layered, componentized and documented stack..... read more...

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