WPF and XAML - Links to documents and tutorials

Demonstration Videos

• WPF Videos - WindowsClient.net
• WPF 3.5 Service Pack 1 Videos - WindowsClient.net

• Lot's of more videos from WindowsClient.net

• .NET University

XAML Power Toys

• XAML Power Toys

XAML Power Toys is a Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Add-In or a Visual Studio 2010 Add-In that empowers WPF & Silverlight developers while working in the XAML editor. Its Line of Business form generation tools, Grid tools, DataForm, DataGrid and ListView generation really shorten the XAML form layout time

Show Me The Templates

Show Me The Template is a tool for exploring the templates, be their data, control or items panel, that comes with the controls built into WPF for all 6 themes.

• Show Me The Templates!

Podcast

• Polymorphic Podcast

Windows Forms Controls and Equivalent WPF Controls

• Windows Forms Controls and Equivalent WPF Controls

XAML XAML Syntax Terminology

• XAML Syntax Terminology

MVVM

• MVVM Light Toolkit

Tutorials

• Advanced WPF - Understanding Routed Events and Commands In WPF - Brian Noyes
• Patterns - WPF Apps With The Model-View-ViewModel Design Pattern - Josh Smith
• Using RoutedCommands with a ViewModel in WPF - Josh Smith
• A Guided Tour of WPF – Part 1 (XAML) - Josh Smith
• A Guided Tour of WPF – Part 2 (Layout) - Josh Smith
• A Guided Tour of WPF – Part 3 (Data binding) - Josh Smith
• A Guided Tour of WPF – Part 4 (Data templates and triggers) - Josh Smith
• A Guided Tour of WPF – Part 5 (Styles) - Josh Smith

• WPF: A Beginner's Guide - Part 1 of n The WPF layout system - Sacha Barber
• WPF: A Beginner's Guide - Part 2 of n XAML / code and WPF resources - Sacha Barber
• WPF: A Beginner's Guide - Part 3 of n RoutedEvents / RoutedCommands - Sacha Barber
• WPF: A Beginner's Guide - Part 4 of n WPF Dependancy Properties - Sacha Barber
• WPF: A Beginner's Guide - Part 5 of n WPF Databinding - Sacha Barber
• A Versatile TreeView for WPF - Philipp Sumi
• A versatile WPF TreeView control - Philipp Sumi (newer code?)
• Prevent a binding from updating too frequently - Josh Smidt
• Customize Data Display with Data Binding and WPF - Josh Smidt

• Resources in WPF – I (Binary Resources)
• Resources in WPF – II (Logical Resources)

Prism

• Prism - Patterns For Building Composite Applications With WPF - Glenn Block
• Prism v4 Region Navigation Pipeline
• MVVM with Prism 101 – Part 3: Regions
• Regions in Prism Video

DependencyObject and DependencyProperty

• Avalon: Understanding DependencyObject and DependencyProperty
• Meet DependencyObject and DependencyProperty, the .NET Data-Binding Boosters

Tree View

• Simplifying the WPF TreeView by Using the ViewModel Pattern
• Introduction to Attached Behaviors in WPF - Josh Smith

Photo scroll

• Photoscroll -- the worst named WPF demo application with source code!
• Extracting thumbnails from a JPEG/JPG in .NET 3.0

Diagram Designer

• WPF Diagram Designer: Part 1 - sukram - Drag, resize and rotate elements on a Canvas
• WPF Diagram Designer - Part 2 - sukram - Designer Canvas with Zoombox
• WPF Diagram Designer - Part 3 - sukram - Connecting items

Implementing a VirtualizingPanel

Displaying large sets of data can be challenging to do performantly. If you have a scrolling list of data, one technique to improve performance is to only create the UI elements that are visible. This is refered to as UI virtualization (as opposed to data virtualization, which is the technique of not...

• Implementing a virtualized panel in WPF (Avalon)
• Implementing a VirtualizingPanel part 2: IItemContainerGenerator
• Implementing a VirtualizingPanel part 3: MeasureCore
• VirtualizingPanel Implementing a VirtualizingPanel part 4: the goods!

Colors and gradients

• Color Table including a color swatch, the color name, and the hexadecimal value

This is a page that will create a gradient (gradual color change) between 2 RGB colors.

• RGB Color gradient
• RGB color palette
• Color conversion (RGB / CMYK / HSV / YUV / ...)

• Enhance the look of Windows Controls using Opacity Masks in Avalon

ColorPic

• ColorPic
• 10 Tips on Getting Started Using the ColorPic

• COLOURlovers - find a world of colors, compare color palettes

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• The new WPF GridView customized 1 of 3 (there is only 1)

Windows Vista Technical Articles

• A Guided Tour of Windows Presentation Foundation

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ListView

• WPF: How to stretch columns in a ListView
• GridView..::.ColumnHeaderContainerStyle Property

Painting with drawings and zooming

• Viewbox and Viewport in Windows Presentation Foundation
• Painting with Images, Drawings, and Visuals
• TileBrush .Viewport Property

Databinding

• XAML for WPF Cheat Sheet

Buttons

• Creating a Custom WPF Button Template in XAML

Libraries

• WPF.JoshSmith - by Josh Smith

Tools

• Crack.NET - A runtime debugging and scripting tool
• Snoop - A random utility made to simplify visual debugging of WPF applications at runtime
• Mole For Visual Studio - With Editing - Visualize All Project Types
• Josh Smith's page about Mole

Threads in WPF

• WPF Threads - Build More Responsive Apps With The Dispatcher

WPF Cross-Thread Collection Binding

• Part 1
• Part 3 - Working Property Change Events
• Part 3 - Working Property Change Events
• Part 4 - The Grand Solution

• Simplifying UI and Worker Threads - DelegateMarshaler Revisited

Prevent a binding from updating too frequently

• Prevent a binding from updating too frequently

Validation of TextBoxes

• Validation in Windows Presentation Foundation - codeproject
• Regex Validation in WPF - codeproject
• [ms-help://MS.VSCC.v90/MS.MSDNQTR.v90.en/wpf_conceptual/html/7103c2e8-0e31-4a13-bf12-ca382221a8d5.htm How to: Make Data Available for Binding in XAML]

Shutting down the application

• Application..::.Shutdown Method
• Application Shutdown Sample

RelativeSources (and sizes) in XAML

• Grid Size Sharing in WPF
• WPF - ListBox, ItemsPanelTemplate and a WrapPanel
• What is the difference between Source, RelativeSource, and ElementName when creating a Binding?

Context sensitive help and .chm files

• A Context-Sensitive Help Provider in Wpf

StringFormat

• StringFormat is a new property in .Net 3.5 SP1

Developing and testing Guides

• WPF Application Quality Guide - Microsoft

Performance profiling tools

• Windows Presentation Foundation Tools

Performance guide

• Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability

User controls

WPF user controls can't be used if their Assembly name contains spaces.
You will get error: mc3074 if the xmlns url contains spaces.