WPF 3.5 SP1 offers killer graphic capabilties that were demonstrated in the last video with David Teitlebaum . In this video, David has dropped by to help us announce the WPF Pixel Shader Effects Library . The library includes 23 Effects and 26 Transitions and is available with source code at http://codeplex.com/wpffx . After shooting the video, we realized we didn't show all of the effects and any of the transitions. To see the library in action check out the WPF Effects Library Demo video .

After shooting the WPF Effects Library interview with David Teitlebaum and realizing we didn't show all of the effects and any of the transitions, we put together this short video. Very little dialogue here to distract from the beauty of the Effects and Transitions. Cue the music... Download the WPF Effects Library at http://codeplex.com/wpffx

3D functionality is becoming a more popular component in UI technologies and has been greatly improved in WPF 3.5 SP1. Upon hearing this some people ( Niners even ) are known to question "what is it good for?" My first answer is that the British Turning Pages application just wouldn't be the same without 3D. Marc Laroche stopped by to talk about another use of 3D in one of Xceed's new controls 3D Views for WPF . Watching Marc move the camera to adjust the display of the data (around 5:25) can give

Nikola Mihaylov came by the studio to explain what a WPF Pixel Shader really is and the code involved and making one. He has a great post on his blog explaining how to get started with Pixel Shaders along with a custom VS project template to make it even easier. In his demonstration Nikola shows off his own effects along with Anders Bursjöö’s Grayscale Effect and Rakesh Ravuri's Wave Reflection Effect .

I den här screencasten visar jag hur du kan skapa en vågig ShaderEffect till WPF med PixelShaders i och med Service Pack 1 till .NET Framework 3.5. Jag använder mig av några extra mallar från www.codeplex.com/wpf och även det skräddarsydda kompileringsläge som finns med i en av de mallar för att kompilera HLSL koden till binärform utan att behöva använda speciella kommandon. Observera att du behöver Visual Studio 2008 med SP, DirectX SDK (med en HLSL kompilator) och WPF Futures från ovanstående codeplex-sida

The Microsoft internal testers have put together a series of whiteboard sessions on testing the Windows development platform. In this Whiteboard session we have Peter Antal walking through Graphics Visual Verification with WPF. For more videos and information on testing in general please visit the Tester Center at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/testing

A simple demo of building a "Hello World" application with Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and then deploying it via ClickOnce to a clean Windows XP machine using the .NET Client Profile rather than the full .NET Framework.

Originally noticed as "a beautiful user experience in an enterprise application", Lawson Smart Office provides a distinctive personalized experience for someone managing their "information workplace". Matthew Allbee provides a walkthrough of Lawson's first WPF application and shows how they use the are really taking advantage of the platform.

.NET Reflector, by Lutz Roeder, must be one of the most useful tools I have when developing .NET code. Usually it is the first thing I install right after Visual Studio not even waiting until I need it because I know I will. So the big news is that Red Gate, makers of the Ants profiler and lots of other tools, are taking over from Lutz Roeder and will continue developing .NET Reflector. Interesting move and I hope this means a bright future for the .NET Reflector. Read more about this here . Enjoy!

In this screencast, we'll see how to create a simple Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application that pulls data from Dynamics CRM. We'll then see how can we modify this application to work in offline mode. Check out http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/benriga/The-Dynamics-Duo-talk-about-CRM-and-WPF/ for some cool WPF work we've created as a proof of concept. You can download the code for this screencast here . Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr/ for more code samples and related screencasts