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XAML Anti-Patterns: Virtualization
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Markus Egger
Last updated: Thursday, September 9, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2014 - July/August, Newsletters, Markus Egger Talks Tech
Markus shows us why virtualization gets a bad reputation and how to clean it up.
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CODE Framework: WPF Standard Themes
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Last updated: Monday, April 25, 2022
Published in: VFP Conversion Papers, Markus Egger Talks Tech, CODE Magazine: 2013 - September/October
If you have been following this series of CODE Framework articles, you are already aware that CODE Framework provides the ability to use, create, and customize awesome-looking WPF application themes that also make apps maintainable and easy to build. But not everyone wants to create brand new Themes or customize existing ones. Instead, why not just use one of the great themes that ship in the box?
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Spice Up Your Silverlight and WPF Application Images
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Paul Sheriff
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2011 - November/December
Most programmers have a hard time making applications that look interesting and fun. We are great at creating functionality that makes the application do exactly what the user wants, but many applications often look very utilitarian. However, with just a few little XAML tricks, you can make your Silverlight or WPF applications look like an artist had a hand in their creation. In this article I will provide you with a couple of very easy XAML tips that you can use right away to spice up the images in your Silverlight and WPF applications.
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Design and Use of Moveable and Resizable Graphics, Part 2
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Andreyev, Sergey
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2008 - May/June
Part 1 of this article dealt with the idea of moveable/resizable graphics.I wrote about contour presentation and explained the design of common and special types of contours, which allow you to apply them to the widest variety of objects. I used simple examples to illustrate the technique of involving these objects in moving/resizing. In part 2, I describe complicated cases of moveable/resizable graphics, e.g., engineering plotting, as well as objects involved in both forward moving and rotation. I also explain how you can apply the same technique to controls and how you can base customization of the forms on moveable/resizable objects.
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Design and Use of Moveable and Resizable Graphics, Part 1
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Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2008 - March/April
Windows are moveable and resizable; graphics and controls inside applications are not. This article explains the design of moveable/resizable graphics and using this technique in your Windows Forms applications.
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Create a Custom DataGridView Column
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Getz, Ken
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2007 - July/August
Creating custom column types for the DataGridView control isn’t nearly as tricky as it once was.In this article, you’ll learn how to take advantage of inheritance to create your own bar graph column in a grid cell.
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What's The Resolution?
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Last updated: Tuesday, December 21, 2021
Published in: Publisher's Point, Markus Egger Talks Tech, EPS Software Corp
Markus Egger discusses screen resolutions.
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XNA Game Studio 4.0 Programming: Developing for Windows Phone 7 and Xbox 360 - Chapter 3 -The Game Object and the Default Game Loop
Last updated: Saturday, January 18, 2020
Published in: Book Excerpts
This excerpt is from the book, ‘XNA Game Studio 4.0 Programming: Developing for Windows Phone 7 and Xbox 360, authored by Tom Miller, Dean Johnson, Published December 12, 2010 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of theDeveloper''s Library series.. ISBN 0672335522, Copyright 2011. For more info, please visit the publisher site http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0672333457.
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.Finalize() - Wasting Energy, and Rotating Things
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Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2006 - September/October
.Finalize() - Wasting Energy, and Rotating Things
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Scaling and Hit-Testing in Ink Applications
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Billy Hollis
Last updated: Saturday, January 18, 2020
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2005 - Vol. 3 - Issue 1 - Tablet PC and Mobile PC
In addition to recognition of text and similar capabilities, Ink can also be used for annotation and markup of images. Medical and insurance applications are typical examples in which allowing users to mark up images can be a valuable form of input.
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Heard on .NET Rocks!: Managing Geographical Data with World Wind
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Franklin, Carl
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2005 - May/June
May/June 2005 .NET Rocks Column
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User Interface Challenges
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Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: Publisher's Point, Markus Egger Talks Tech, VFP Conversion Papers
Markus Egger discusses user interface technologies developers should familiarize themselves with.
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Windows Presentation Foundation - an Introduction for VFP Developers
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Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: Markus Egger Talks Tech, VFP Conversion Papers
The Windows Presentation Foundation (short WPF) is coming, and it will replace all Windows UIs as we know them today.This means that no developer can ignore this technology. This article provides an introduction to WPF both from a general point of view as well as from a Visual FoxPro specific angle.
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The Basics of GDI
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Last updated: Friday, July 2, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2003 - May/June, Markus Egger Talks Tech
In graphical user interfaces such as Microsoft Windows, drawing on the screen is an important task.Everything displayed on the screen is based on simple drawing operations. Often, environments such as Visual Basic abstract those drawing operations away from the developer. However, the same drawing operations still take place under the hood. In Visual Studio .NET, developers have easy access to that drawing functionality whenever they need it through a technology called GDI+. Using GDI+, developers can easily perform drawing operations such as generating graphs or building custom controls.
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Using GDI in ASP.NET Web Applications, Part 1
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Last updated: Friday, July 2, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2003 - May/June, Markus Egger Talks Tech
GDI+ is a technology that developers generally associate with Windows Forms applications because they use it to draw anything on the screen from custom controls to diagrams.However, you can also use GDI+ in ASP.NET Web applications whenever you want to serve up dynamic images. You can use GDI+ to create dynamic banners, photo albums, graphs, diagrams, and more.
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Using GDI in ASP.NET Web Applications, Part 2
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Last updated: Friday, July 2, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2003 - July/August, Markus Egger Talks Tech
In the last issue, I investigated GDI+ and how to use it for image manipulation in Web applications.This time around, I will look at the generation of brand new images using the same GDI+ technology and features.
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GDI+ Drawing Page, Part 1
By:
Powers, Lars,
Snell, Mike
Last updated: Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2003 - May/June
There was a time, not too long ago, when browser-based user interfaces were considered both the status quo and the Next Great Thing.The demand for Windows Forms-based applications started to dwindle as the developer community fully embraced browser/server applications with their centralized server components and ubiquitous user interfaces. .NET, however, brings a much more powerful library of distributed communication technologies (such as Web services and remoting). As a result, .NET developers are seeing some of these traditionally browser-based applications becoming, more simply, Web-enabled and less tied to a browser. In short, developers can now see a very real business case for building distributed applications on Windows Forms technology.
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