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After receiving good feedback on my counter sample , I've completed my second entry for the XUL Grand Coding Challenge 2004 , the Calculator. This sample was completed in Longhorn v4051 and setup as a project in Visual Studio “Whidbey” (PDC Release). The project files are available for download...

I've completed my Counter Sample for the Xul Coding Challenge . The rest of the samples are shown here . Its pretty interesting to browse through the different samples and compare the markup code. XAML Code below: < Window xmlns = http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/xaml xmlns : def ="Definition" def...

I've found Property Triggers and they are very handy. If you've had to write UI code before I'm sure you are very familiar with rollover scripts and the like. I was working with my button, setup a trigger to change the color when I roll over it, and then the beauty of it is the trigger knows when a condition...

So here it is. [ Download Here ] I wanted to test drive some of what WinFS has to offer so I thought what better thing to store than RSS Feeds. Of course I needed a GUI to manage all of those feeds for me. One of the neat things is that the body of the selected RSS Item is hosted in a TextPanel sitting...

This is a proof of concept application I thought I'd share. The animation in Longhorn is good, but I couldn't figure how to do exactly what I wanted, some form of dynamic animation. I wanted to be able to react to user input and redraw the objects according to different properties; in other words, some...

Ok, so I guess I will just be the guy who endlessly creates “version 1”s of simple little UI things but this was fun. I am working on a more “Application” like program but its taking awhile, so I do these as a break. So here I present Quarks, a sample similiar to Particle Flash...

I've recently been working on some sample applications, but haven't gotten close to finishing anything. So I thought I'd go back to the simpler UI Samples that I had started with. This is really nothing to fancy, just an exercise in drawing with pathfigures. There is some mouse interaction when you hold...

Today, my NineGridMan Longhorn UI Sample was approved as GotDotNet User Sample. Click here to download

Drew Marsh asked for an explanation on what the GlyphImageSource property of the NineGridBrush was for, so I thought I'd show a visual example here. Below the GlyphImageSource is set to a PNG file that consists of the letter Q and a transparent background. The Image Background is set to the bordered...

Once I noticed the NineGridBrush , I was very impressed and excited to use it. So I thought of an interesting way to display its usage. Enter the NineGridMan. You'll notice some distortion while stretching him out but I thought I'd still run with it because it showed how the image used in the NineGridBrush...