An desktop RSS reader using WPF& Sync Framework

 

Introducing the Syndicated Client Experiences Starter Kit Beta & Reader Beta SDK!

We are very excited to take the wraps off of our newest addition to .Net client development – a Starter Kit designed to make it easy to create rich, syndicated multimedia and content experiences which engage the user, from documents and photos to videos and podcasts.

These Syndicated Client Experiences (SCE) applications exploit the push capabilities of RSS in a model where content is synced down to the local computer and each application retains full control over the presentation of the content. Microsoft’s Sync Framework-based Subscription Center takes care of syncing, local storage, subscription management and the safe caching of authentication credentials. These building blocks and services are designed to help application developers focus on what matters to them most: providing an optimal, highly-differentiated content experience on the desktop with very rich content, branding, skinning and custom user interface elements.

Syndicated Client Experiences Starter Kit - WindowsClient.net

CodeProject: WPF C# Ribbon Control Library. Free source code and programming help

 

This article presents a library for producing Microsoft Office 2007 style ribbon interfaces; while the included source and binaries are in ALPHA release, it should be possible to implement even the most complex of ribbon style interfaces (albeit with minor alterations). Currently the library does not support creation of ribbon controls via WPF XAML code, however requires the creation of the ribbon bar via C# code behind.

Via CodeProject: WPF C# Ribbon Control Library. Free source code and programming help

Also,

A Graphical WPF Ribbon Control Builder - An article presenting Ribbon Builder, a tool for creating ribbon controls

Via CodeProject: A Graphical WPF Ribbon Control Builder. Free source code and programming help

A Versatile TreeView for WPF

 

A strongly typed enhancement of the regular WPF TreeView control.

 

CodeProject: A Versatile TreeView for WPF. Free source code and programming help

Great Line-of-Business Controls for WPF

 

I’m delighted to see that Infragistics have just released their NetAdvantage control set for WPF. In the interest of fairness, I should also highlight some of the other great controls out there: Xceed have a great (free) data grid, ComponentOne also have a data grid and chart control, along with a bunch of calendaring components, DevComponents also have a very impressive Office ribbon and a Visual Studio-esque docking control, IdentityMine have a 3D carousel as part of their Blendables toolkit, and Actipro have yet another Office ribbon along with a wizard control.

Via Great Line-of-Business Controls for WPF

Minority Report-like interaction in WPF

 

Microsoft Surface and Jeff Han’s multi-touch UI seem to be ages behind if compared to Project Maestro, developed by Cynergy.

A NO-Touch interface developed with WPF, XAML and using the WII remote with some custom-built IR gloves.

If you want to do it yourself, here are some pointers to get you started: Connecting the Wii Control to WPF and the Wiimote project.

Via Minority Report-like interaction in WPF

Flotzam - A Twitter, Facebook, Flickr & RSS Mash-up

 

  Watch the flotsam and jetsam of data that you care about in this mash-up of Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Digg and RSS blogs. Using this simple application, you can configure what you want to watch and the speed in which you see it. Want to view what your Twitter friends are doing? Want to see the photos your friends have posted on Facebook? Or maybe their photos on Flickr, too? Download now and have all of your photos, Tweets, Diggs, Facebook invites & pokes and feeds come to you!

Being a WPF application, Flotzam can be easily restyled. From the enter/exit transitions for new items to the overall visual look and feel of the Flotzam interface, you can do almost anything you want just by tweaking the XAML mark-up.

Blog: http://flotzam.com/blog/

Source Code: http://flotzam.com/download/SourceCode/Flotzamsource.zip

Flotzam - A Twitter, Facebook, Flickr & RSS Mash-up

We’ve Released the News Reader SDK (Open Source)! Just like the NYT Reader

 

The New York Times reader is based on this SDK. To allow newspapers and content publishers to create rich, “occasionally-connected” experiences based on the flow layout capabilities in WPF.

The reader toolkit is called Syndicated Client Experiences Starter Kit. This reflects its potential to go beyond a news reading scenario and handle other kinds of data synchronization and display needs.

We’ve also created a sample MSDN Magazine reader application built with the starter kit, which is of course also provided with full source code.

Via We’ve Released the News Reader SDK!

Yet Another Xaml Editor

Kaxaml is a lightweight XAML editor that gives you a “split view” so you can see both your XAML and your rendered content (kind of like XamlPad but without the gigabyte of SDK). Kaxaml is a hobby and was created to be shared, so it’s free! download.

Coding4Fun Developer Resources for Visual Studio 2008

Coding4Fun Developer Kits!

• The C4F Developer Kit is an offering of 20+ components and controls that offer developers a great opportunity to create cool, fun applications with technology that may be otherwise too complex or require countless hours of research and coding.  The toolkit hosts controls for things like Bluetooth, Speech, TAPI, Calendar and much, much more.  We’ve rolled this out on CodePlex (http://www.codeplex.com/c4fdevkit) to allow the community to share and add to it. 
  • e.g. Web Services
    Managed code wrappers for sites like:
    • Yahoo Traffic
    • Flickr
    • MySpace
    • Amazon.com
    • Craig’s List
    • Delicious
    • Digg
    • YouTube
    • And more
• The C4F Vista P2P Toolkit offers developers the ability to create peer-to-peer applications for WinForms and WPF with no lines of code.  Built on top of the WCF, we created a set of controls that developers simply drag ‘n drop on their design surface and simply select from the Smart Tags which pieces to hook up.  They have prebuilt controls for Chat, file sharing and streaming audio and video.  This too can be found on CodePlex (http://www.codeplex.com/c4fp2p). 
• Finally, to bring the above apps & samples altogether, we’ve created the C4F Dashboard which is part of the C4F Developer Kit.  This simple WPF application allows developers to launch the samples, source code or documents for a single dashboard.  

Via Visual Studio 2008 is released and much more

A Simple WPF Explorer Tree

 

A simple WPF explorer tree, which shows drives and folders. I wanted to display a drive image if the TreeViewItem is a drive, and a folder image otherwise. Sounds easy right. Wrong, it turned out to be quite tricky.

A Simple WPF Explorer Tree - The Code Project - Windows Presentation Foundation