Sep
06
We’ve all seen it. Lower your resolution to 800×600? The application’s UI is giant, hard to navigate, and ugly. Bring it up to 1920×1200? Now, you can’t see it. Here’s an easy way to make your application’s content size relative to your window’s size (which will lead it to size independently of the resolution or … Continue reading »
Aug
30
Threading is a pretty core concept, but I felt it might be necessary to give it a brief explanation before moving on to some WPF-specific concerns for threads. If you are already familiar with threads, these aren’t the droids you’re looking for. If you think about the flow of a simple application that does not … Continue reading »
Feb
19
Tagging is starting to infiltrate all of our media. It makes organizing and using it easier, and is a valuable feature to support. Reading metadata from an image is fairly simple, once you find the pieces. Vista uses the property Keywords to store tags, so we’ll use that as well. The BitmapMetadata object holds quite … Continue reading »
Feb
05
Update: If you’re using .NET 4.0, be sure to check out my posts about the new touch events. Finally! Another post about programming! I know! And Windows 7, too! That ever sure is topical! This one is for all of you developers running the Win7 beta on the HP TouchSmart (moneyhat go). Win7 is supposed … Continue reading »
Oct
27
Multithreading using WPF is a little tricky at first (I’m planning a more thorough post on that later), but the basic thing you need to know is that you can’t access WPF elements outside of the UI thread, because they aren’t thread safe. There are some things you can do to speed loading up, however. … Continue reading »
Sep
30
WPF is a graphical subsystem to the .NET framework. It is essentially used to make UI programming easier by separating the UI from the business logic. By doing this, it is easy to maintain and allows designers to easily change the UI without futzing with too much programming. This, of course, makes it easier for … Continue reading »
Sep
18
A bit is the difference between true and false So when working on this blog sometimes I spend a little too much time getting code together. I’m sure I’ll get better, faster, and care less about what it looks like over time. Until then, I’ll use these ‘Just a Bit’ posts. The idea being that … Continue reading »
Sep
12
In order to send a keystroke to another application, you can just utilize Win32′s PostMessage. Windows is very event-driven. Anytime anything changes within a window, an event is fired. If you click your mouse button, an event is fired. If you resize the window, an event is fired. If you press a key, an event … Continue reading »
