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

Podcast

• Polymorphic Podcast

Windows Forms Controls and Equivalent WPF Controls

• Windows Forms Controls and Equivalent WPF Controls

XAML XAML Syntax Terminology

• XAML Syntax Terminology

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
• Prism - Patterns For Building Composite Applications With WPF - Glenn Block

• 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

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

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

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.