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I tire of maintaining my own blog engine at windojitsu.com... I'm moving my blog back to http://weblogs.asp.net/savanness -- now that they're running Community Server 2.x, and Live Writer has made it easier to post content with embedded screenshots and attachments. :-) Also, comment-spam is now somewhat under control, so it will be nice to have a centralized feed w/ content + comments.

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2007.01.12

AutoClaimsFX

In celebration of WinFX Beta2, I've attempted to recreate the Tablet PC SDK's beloved AutoClaims sample in WPF.

...all in 100% pure XAML!

Ok, admittedly it probably would've been easier to code some of those lengthy EventTriggers for managing the layers in C#. And I'm a little bummed to discover than I can't set Panel.ZIndex in partial trust (else you'd be running this app in your browser right now, not reading about it).

Still, it's a fun exercise in what can be done with InkCanvas and XAML, with so few lines of code compared to our WinForms platform. You really have to compile and run the mundane old WinForms version, and peruse the code, to appreciate this WPF rendition.

Enjoy!

2006.05.31

ScrollViewer for Lefties

Josh says “Windows Presentation Foundation (aka WPF, aka Avalon) is the best thing to happen to Tablet PC's.”

Josh, I couldn't have said that better... well done! (We're trying hard to live up to your expectations, anyway. :-)

This reminds me -- at a recent talk, I happened to mention (to a group of Tablet PC developers) how ScrollViewer could be re-styled to align the scrollbar on the left, for left-handed users. The response was quite enthusiastic! Here's the XAML...

2006.03.09

Real-time Ink in 3D: A Postcard from Stefan Wick

Hello from Redmond, we're enjoying the Feb CTP of WinFX, wish you were here...

PostCard.xaml

2006.02.22

Windows Vista + WinFX: Feb CTP

The 2006 February CTP of WinFX Runtime Components has been published! (Corresponding Windows Vista CTP coming soon, to MSDN subscribers.)

2006.02.22

WinFX Ink: Fun with VisualBrush

Just in case anybody who reads this doesn't read Petzold...

2006.02.03

WinFX: Fun with InkCanvas

Updated for RTM... and improved resizing/scaling experience w/ Viewbox!

Here's a fun little InkCanvas sample app... yeah that's right, it's tic-tac-toe. What? This ain't rocket science. (It does, however, include source code for a very, very simple handwriting recognition engine. :-)

I got my web host to turn on the MIME type mappings for .xaml and .xbap files -- now you can play TicTacToeFX right in your browser (IE6-7)!

2005.11.22

Bug Bash