Blend Presentation Materials

Presentation Materials From Code Camp RDU and Charlotte, NC Developers GUILD Meeting

The below down load contains :

1.  The Blend presentation PowerPoint
2.  Hello World A La Blend code and program
3.  VB.NET Win Forms Take Home Pay Calculator application (this was used as the model for the WPF application)
4.  WPFTaxCalculator code and program

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Blend Presentation Materials – Must Change Extension To .zip

Cool Features In The WPF Tax Calculator Program

1.  Custom textbox that increments it’s value using the mouse just like Microsoft Expression Blend
2. The coolest tooltip. (Code shows you how to databind inside a resource back to the parent control that spawned the tooltip!)
3.  Data binding to a .Net 1.1 .dll by wrapping the class to conform to the WPF model for UI notification of property changes.
4.  A fully reusable Formatting Converter.  Handles all .Net formatting codes for fields.  Super easy to use in WPF UI.
5.  Using Enum element names to populate the combo boxes.
6.  Two result charts displayed in 3D space.

I learned so much about WPF and Blend while preparing this presentation.

To Do

I could not figure out how to data bind a value in the control to a TextBlock in the ToolTip.  Once I figure this out, I’ll move the TextBox ToolTip to a resource and repost the code.

Have a great day,

 Karl

Just a grain of sand on the worlds beaches.