Feb 21 2009

Silverlight Data Visualization contest for MIX09

So, Tim Heuer (Silverlight Program Manager at Microsoft) posted on his blog that he’d give away free tickets to the upcoming MIX09 conference in Vegas for winners of three contests.  One of these was “data visualization” using Silverlight.  The requirement was to take some publicly available data and display it visually in a creative way. [...]


Jan 6 2009

WPF Twitter Tutorial Part 6 - Customizing a ListBox UI with DataTemplates

This is part 6 of 6 of WPF Tutorial - A Simple Twitter Client. These tutorials are meant to highlight some of the core features of WPF while building a simple desktop client for displaying your Twitter “friends timeline”.
In Part 5 we took our basic layout, wired it up to some events, and bound [...]


Dec 9 2008

WPF Twitter Tutorial Part 5 - Downloading data with WebClient using Basic HTTP Authentication

This is part 5 of 6 of WPF Tutorial - A Simple Twitter Client. These tutorials are meant to highlight some of the core features of WPF while building a simple desktop client for displaying your Twitter “friends timeline”.
In Part 4 we set up our “hidden” preferences panel so the user can enter their [...]


Nov 12 2008

WPF Twitter Tutorial Part 4 - Making a hidden preferences panel with Transforms, Triggers, and Animations

This is part 4 of 6 of WPF Tutorial - A Simple Twitter Client. These tutorials are meant to highlight some of the core features of WPF while building a simple desktop client for displaying your Twitter “friends timeline”.
In Part 3 we started to flush out our UI while keeping our code clean and [...]


Nov 6 2008

WPF Twitter Tutorial Part 3 - Styling the UI and cleaning up with Resource and ResourceDictionary

This is part 3 of 6 of WPF Tutorial - A Simple Twitter Client. These tutorials are meant to highlight some of the core features of WPF while building a simple desktop client for displaying your Twitter “friends timeline”.
Let’s take a look at what we have so far.  We have done nothing more than [...]


Oct 31 2008

Programmatic animation in Silverlight

This is a simple example of how to trigger animations in WPF and Silverlight from C# instead of declaratively doing it in XAML.
Click anywhere in the box below to see the animation. A circle appears wherever you click the mouse, and it simulataneously grows and fades out. I do this by animating the [...]


Oct 29 2008

WPF Twitter Tutorial Part 2 - A word about layout containers

This is part 2 of 6 of WPF Tutorial - A Simple Twitter Client. These tutorials are meant to highlight some of the core features of WPF while building a simple desktop client for displaying your Twitter “friends timeline”.
With our setup out of the way, we can start to look at the Window1.xaml file [...]


Oct 29 2008

WPF Twitter Tutorial Part 1 - Setup and the default WPF project files

This is part 1 of 6 of WPF Tutorial - A Simple Twitter Client. These tutorials are meant to highlight some of the core features of WPF while building a simple desktop client for displaying your Twitter “friends timeline”.
Okay…we don’t really need to talk much about setting up a WPF application right?  Open VS2008, create [...]


Oct 29 2008

WPF Tutorial - A Simple Twitter Client

This tutorial will be broken down into several different parts to serve as a reference highlighting various features of WPF and C# programming.  I started this example just to play around with some simple animations and to figure out how to trigger the animation of one element from an event fired on another using only [...]


Oct 11 2008

Android “Hello Web” - Part 2

In part 1 of this post I provided the link and a few words for installing the SDK and setting up a basic Android project in Eclipse, so if you need to refer back to that, click here.
All of the source files for this application are also available here:
HelloWeb.zip
The whole reason I decided to post [...]