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Friday, November 30, 2007 1:10 PM

Use LINQ to Foxpro or any SQL data and display it in a WPF form using DataSetExtensions and DataRowExtensions

In the last post Create your own media browser: Display your pictures, music, movies in a XAML tooltip , we created a query of your local media and displayed it. Today, we'll make a query to my Foxpro picture database of 28,000 pictures/movies. We'll
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 10:46 AM

Create your own media browser: Display your pictures, music, movies in a XAML tooltip

In my prior post , I showed how to use XAML and XAMLReader to create inline XAML to display the results of a query. Today, let's take it a step further: let's create a query of all the media (pictures, movies, music) in your "My Documents" folder and
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007 11:08 AM

WPF Animation: Use dynamic XAML to animate movies using XAMLReader or animate in code using BeginStoryBoard

Using WPF, it’s great to use declarative XAML , but it’s also great to use dynamic code. With VB’s new XML Features , you can do either. Below is a sample showing how to use XAMLReader to take XML generated in code and use it to create XAML to present
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 1:50 PM

Use the DispatcherTimer, Popup and even a movie to enhance your data presentation

We can subclass the prior Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) class called Browse that displays the results of a query. This subclass will add a WPF Popup to it. The popup can easily be added to either a ListView or the ListBox sample I posted earlier
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Thursday, November 15, 2007 1:23 PM

Use DataTemplates and WPF in code to create a general purpose LINQ Query results display

In my last post, Use LINQ with WPF : Styles and DataTemplates in code , I showed how to use DataTemplates in code to show the results of a query in a ListBox. Let's make a reusable class called Browse which creates WPF content as a ListView from a LINQ
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Monday, November 12, 2007 10:28 AM

Use LINQ with WPF : Styles and DataTemplates in code

Using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and LINQ is easy in code. We'll create a query and display it in a WPF ListBox Using XAML is harder: the ObjectDataProvider class works with non-anonymous types. Start Visual Studio 2008 (or 2005 with Visual
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Saturday, November 10, 2007 9:02 PM

Customer site visit: 3-D printer company

I spent a few hours at a local company called 2Bot ( http://www.2bot.com/ ) which makes a 3-D printer that you can attach to your computer via USB port. Yep, I said 3 dimensional: you can feed it an architectural drawing of a building or landscape, and
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007 5:20 PM

Extract TreeView or ListView ImageList icons from a DLL

An ImageList can be used for a ListView or TreeView control to contain many images in a single file, usually embedded as a resource. Visual Studio itself has many icons. If you open Windows Explorer or Internet Explorer, you can see many icons in toolbars,
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