May
26
While I haven’t been working on C#/WPF in awhile, I figured I’d go ahead and complete a draft that’s been sitting in my queue for awhile. Fast user switching is a concept Microsoft first included with Windows XP that allows the OS to quickly switch to another user and back by keeping the first user’s … Continue reading »
Jul
02
WPF 4.0′s manipulation events certainly made things easier to write an application that supports multitouch gestures. After you start playing with these gestures, however, you’ve found yourself disappointed. You want more. There’s something missing. It’s just not like it used to be. “It’s not you, Manipulation events,” you say. “No…it’s me.” But then? A spark! … Continue reading »
Apr
25
In a recent post, I showed you how to react to touch events in WPF 4.0. You can use that to implement the showcase multitouch gestures: scaling, rotating, and translation. It’s not too hard. Really, I’ve done it. Just dust off your geometry and trigonometry hats and get to it. Are you done yet? No? … Continue reading »
Apr
16
I spent a little of time with some people over at AMD the other day, looking at ways to better utilize the video card using WPF. A useful little chunk that came from that was using the Freeze method on UI elements that are being manipulated. This tells the video card to use the texture … Continue reading »
Apr
02
Update: if you’re looking to just implement standard multitouch gestures, check out my post on manipulation. One of the most popular posts on this blog is my writeup on getting multitouch events in Windows 7 using WPF and .NET 3.5. Now that .NET 4.0 is in open beta, its time for an update. That’s a … Continue reading »
Mar
05
Buzzwords will be a recurring segment where I explain some of the words and phrases I pick up on as I grow in my development knowledge. Some will be simple definitions; others will delve further into the concepts being presented to explore their meaning. After I started at HP, my vocabulary was challenged every day … Continue reading »
Feb
05
WPF, like any other UI program, has an inner loop that continually runs in order to update the state of the application and render the UI. One part of this loop is a call to the function WndProc, which is the function through which Windows communicates the messages your window is receiving (be it input … Continue reading »
Jan
10
For the past year and a half, I’ve been working on software for HP’s TouchSmart all-in-one PCs. I develop and manage the deliverables for some of the tiles found within the TouchSmart software suite. Allow me to take a moment and give you a TouchSmart commercial, explain my role in its creation, and how you … Continue reading »
Oct
11
If you’re unfamiliar with multithreading, be sure to check out my previous entries on the topic. In WPF, creating a thread is as easy as it is with C#. You can find an example on that here. Alternatively, you could use the BackgroundWorker, which basically will create a thread and will give you a generalized, … Continue reading »
Sep
13
As I explained previously, threads are like workers with separate to-do lists that share the same tools and materials and perform tasks at the same time. There are a couple of tough situations that these coworkers will often find themselves in, however, and you need to make sure that their employer has the proper processes … Continue reading »
