Free Pluralsight Prism Training
I am excited to announce that Pluralsight and Microsoft’s Patterns & Practices team have joined forces to provide you with free access to over 4 hours of online Prism training. That’s right, you heard me correctly. FREE online Prism training sponsored by the one and only Patterns & Practices team. I know you have some [...]
Extended WPF Toolkit–the updated PropertyGrid
The PropertyGrid control in the Extended WPF Toolkit was released in version 1.4.0 as beta. Since then I have had another release of version 1.5.0 in which the PropertyGrid was still in beta. Well it is beta no more! I have given the PropertyGrid a lot of love an affection over the past few weeks [...]
Extended WPF Toolkit–using the BusyIndicator
As you may know, I am the author of a WPF control suite call the Extended WPF Toolkit. I also spend tons of time on various forums helping people solve problems with their WPF applications. Lately there have been a number of questions regarding the BusyIndicator control. The majority of questions deal with using it [...]
Mapping a Route with Directions using the Bing Maps WPF Control (Beta)
So far we have built an earthquake application, mapped an address using geocoding, and even Prism-fied the Bing Maps WPF control. Now let’s see how to map a route with turn-by-turn directions. By now it should be no surprise that you will need to complete the following steps before you can create this application. Get [...]
Prism-fy the Bing Maps WPF Control (Beta)
If you know me or know of me you are aware that I am a big Prism advocate/evangelist. You may have also noticed that I have been playing around with the new Bing Maps WPF control. So it shouldn’t surprise you that I would find a way to compose a Bing Map of loosely coupled [...]
Mapping an Address with the Bing Maps WPF Control (Beta)
In my last post I showed you how to get started using the Bing Maps WPF control by creating an earthquake application. Now I want to introduce you to the Bing Maps SOAP Services. The Bing Maps SOAP Services is a set of programmable SOAP services that allow you to integrate maps and imagery, driving [...]
Build an Earthquake Application with Bing Maps WPF Control (Beta)
Recently you may have noticed that the Bing Maps team released a WPF Map control which is currently in Beta. In light of the recent earth quake on the east coast of the United States, I thought an earthquake application would be a great way to become familiar with the Map control. There are a [...]
Extended WPF Toolkit Release 1.4.0
It’s that time again. Time for another release of the Extended WPF Toolkit. I know it’s only been three short months since the last release, but this release is packed with 11 new controls as well as many bug fixes and updated controls. I have been working hard to provide the WPF community with a [...]
