Extended WPF Toolkit–Updated ColorPicker control
If you are using the Extended WPF Toolkit you have probably noticed the ColorPicker control. If you are not familiar with the Color Picker control, it is simply a WPF editor control that allows a user to select a color. If you are using release version 1.2 or less the color picker will look something [...]
Extended WPF Toolkit–Release 1.2.0
A new version of the Extended WPF Toolkit is now available with three great new controls. I have been hard at work fixing bugs, adding functionality and creating new controls. Lets take a look at the new controls added to the 1.2.0 release of the Extended WPF Toolkit. The ButtonSpinner The ButtonSpinner control allows you [...]
Create your own Format Bar for the WPF RichTextBox
Have you ever tried to use the WPF RichTextBox? If you did try to use it, did you pull your hair out trying to figure out how to accomplish the simplest of tasks? Don’t panic, your not the only one. I often get asked tons of questions on how to use the WPF RichTextBox. Lets [...]
Now a Technical Contributor for PluralSight
If you haven’t noticed by now, I have been somewhat quiet in the community lately, but there are a few good reasons for that. The first reason is that I have been working on my Extended WPF Toolkit project on CodePlex. I also recently had a new baby girl, born just 4 months ago and [...]
Extended WPF Toolkit – Release 1.1.0
A new version of the Extended WPF Toolkit was released today and it is packed with goodies. And to all you cry babies who wined for a VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 version finally got on my nerves enough to create one for you. Ha, just kidding, but there really is a Visual Studio 2008 [...]
Silverlight 4 Service Release 4.0.50826.0
In case you haven’t heard yet, Microsoft released a new update for Silverlight 4 yesterday, along with a new SDK. You can check out the details at KB2164913. The stuff I was interested in: Add New Row for the DataGrid Improved application startup performance Mouse wheel support for out-of-browser applications on the Mac Media bug [...]
Extended WPF Toolkit – New ColorPicker Control
Yes, another great control has been added to the Extended WPF Toolkit project on CodePlex called the ColorPicker. The ColorPicker is pretty much self explanatory. It allows a user to select a color using a color canvas, a hue slider, and an alpha slider for transparency. This is what is looks like when it is [...]
Extended WPF Toolkit – New RichTextBox Control
There has been a new control added to the Extended WPF Toolkit project on CodePlex called the RichTextBox. The RichTextBox extends the System.Windows.Control.RichTextBox control that represents a rich editing control which operates on FlowDocument objects. The RichTextBox control has a Text dependency property which allows a user to data bind content to the RichTextBox.Document property. [...]
Extended WPF Toolkit – New MessageBox Control
I have added a new control to the Extended WPF Toolkit project on CodePlex called the MessageBox. It is currently in beta and is only available in the source code download. The MessageBox control mimics the System.Windows.MessageBox closely and you use similar syntax to create it. MessageBox Displays a message box that has a message [...]
I Started a CodePlex Project: The Extended WPF Toolkit
WPF developers, have you ever needed a control that it is in the Silverlight Toolkit but not the WPF Toolkit? What is that all about? Well my solution to that problem is on CodePlex and it is called the Extended WPF Toolkit. The Extended WPF Toolkit is a collection of WPF controls, components and utilities [...]
