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An Odd Error With CompositeWPF and Other Embedded Controls
I just spent a few minutes trying to figure out an odd error I was having in trying to add Kevin's WPF Bag-o-Tricks to my MemoryGame project. Apparently if you...
A Sneak Peak of My Memory Game Project
I am slowly but surely working on a new project called Memory Game. It is an attempt to create something utilizing a bunch of the newest .Net technologies...
A Fancy Diamond Pattern Tiled Background in WPF
So I am working on a little side project - which hopefully I'll present in the coming month - and I wanted to make my window fill something more fancy than a...
WPF Friendly Frameworks and Design Patterns
Since I last posted I have still been relatively hard at work learning a variety of things. One thing which I have noticed recently is that once you get a...
Old School Fire Algorithm in Modern Day WPF
A month or so ago before I got too far into my WPF research I wanted to figure out how the performance of WPF compared to - say a 486DX 33mhz from 12-13 years...
Simple UI Example Numero Uno
A few weeks ago I mocked up a UI and tried to create it. I got it pretty far but put it aside after one night and thought I had lost my work. Tonight I found...
Another WPF Grab Bag
I'm still playing with WPF pretty routinely. I haven't posted much because I'm enjoying learning and playing more than writing about it, and honestly there is...
Blend Gets 3rd Party Intellisense and Kaxaml Gets an Update
If you've been following Nerd Plus Art (which you should be doing) you'll notice a few recent blog posts of interest. First off, intellisense can now be had in...
Recreating Simple Windows Forms in WPF and XAML (Part 4)
Last time we covered breaking our theming out into an external file, and how to style all instances of a given UI element. We left off needing to know the...
WPF Link Grab Bag
So I've been under the weather (or at least that is one of my excuses), so I don't have the next part of my WPF series ready to post yet, but I do have a...
Latest status update
Migrated 110 posts off old Drupal site and relaunched SmartyPantsCoding.com as a Markdown-based Astro site. Also making new work public — Line Diet reboot and in-progress ChurchBells.