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Articles for tag: XAML


SuperStackPanel = Grid + StackPanel

'Content' is NOT 'Text' in XAML

‘XamlUIPresenter’ , what are you ? :)

10 tips on porting Silverlight apps to WinRT/Metro (Part 2)

6 Tips For Designers For Translating Your Comps Into XAML

A C#/XAML FlipView Context Indicator for Windows 8

A Communication System for XAML Applications

A convention-based data template selector for Windows 8 XAML Store apps

A DoubleBorderDecorator to simplify rounded-border decorations

A few tips for working with XAML inside of Visual Studio 2010.

A One-stop Shopping XAML Namespace for Silverlight Client SDK Controls

A Quick Note on XAML Namespaces in Silverlight/WPF

A Radial Gauge custom control for Windows 8 Metro

A shimmering wall of sequin’s to compare WinRT XAML & Silverlight 5

A simple design time data example with Windows Store Applications for beginners

A Simplified Grid Markup for Silverlight and WPF

A Style for the Silverlight CoverFlow Control Slider

A way to specify UI elements as properties declaratively in XAML

A WinRT behavior to start a storyboard on an event

A WPF Image Button

A WPF Image/Text Button

A WPF Message Box you can Style

A XAML Settings Panel for Windows 8 Metro

Access storyboard from VisualStateManager/ access VisualState in code (programmatically)

Adventures in Windows 8: Placing items in a GridView with a ColumnSpan or RowSpan

All about Windows Store Live Tiles: Tile Properties

An Essential Tip for Working With XAML

An XML Compiler

Animated gifs in XAML/C# :)

Animating XAML Clip Art

Animating XAML Clip Art - Part 2

Animation Handoff Bug and Workaround for current WPF/E CTP

ASP.NET Futures: Intro to the Xaml and Media Controls

Attached behaviors for Windows 8 Metro Style XAML

Attached Behaviors in WinRT

Become a Kaxaml Power User in about 7 Minutes

Best practices when adding single sign-on to your app with the Live SDK

Binding Dynamic Properties in XAML

Binding Position Data to an ItemsHost for Layout

Binding to a ConverterParameter in Windows 8 Metro

Binding to ActualHeight or ActualWidth

Blend Candy : Another Blue Glowing Glass Button in the style of Web 2.0

Build a chat application with WPF and self hosted ASP.NET Web API

Build a WinRT Metro App to Access the Windows 8 File System

Building a custom control using XAML and C#

Building a deployable custom control for XAML Metro style apps

Building a good app settings experience in XAML

Building Global Windows 8 Metro XAML Apps Part 1–Localizing Strings

Building Global Windows 8 Metro XAML Apps Part 2 Localizing Files and Custom Layouts

Building Windows 8 Metro Applications with C# and XAML – Slides & Demos

Building your First Windows Metro style Application using Visual Studio 2011 on Windows 8

Button Style - Silverlight

Callisto library for Windows 8 XAML applications on GitHub

Callisto: A toolkit for XAML Metro style apps

CodeSmith XAML Templates

Combining XAML and DirectX

CompositionTarget.Rendering and RenderEventArgs

Compressing Data in Windows 8 Metro Applications

Consuming WCF SOAP Service in Windows 8 Metro Application

Converting and customizing XAML to PNG with server-side WPF

Converting images to paths

Converting StorageFiles (png) to a Byte[] in order to display as an Image in WinRT (C#)

Creating a DirectX XAML control using C++/CX

Creating a great tile experience (part 1)

Creating a ScaleTransform animation in C# for WinRT/ Metro Apps

Creating A Sticky AppBar in Win8

Creating a Vista Style button template

Creating a XAML Tile Control

Creating a Zoomable ScrollViewer with ZoomSnapPoints in WinRT XAML

Creating DirectX Interop Libraries for XAML Metro Style Apps – Part 1: Direct2D

Creating tiled backgrounds in Metro style XAML apps

Creating XAML Objects in Code

Custom Tooltip and Popup [WPF]

Customize Windows 7 Preview pane for XAML files

Data Binding In Windows 8. Part 3–Element Binding

Data binding shapes to the WinRT Bing Maps control – coming from Windows Phone

Debugging Data Bindings in XAML with Silverlight 5 Beta

Debugging WinRT/XAML bindings

Declaring an ICommand in Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Dependency properties and collections combined with XAML

Designing a Windows 8 Metro style app starting from an existing Windows Phone app – Design Case Study Part 1

Develop your app for everyone–localize your UI

Did You Know... (2) you can easily re-format your code and XAML in Visual Studio

DirectX in your WinRT-XAML/C# apps (SharpDx)

Displaying Today’s Date with XAML

Document Outline and XAML

Document Outline and XAML

Drawing a XAML graph from VB

Dynamic backgrounds

Effect-Graphs in our XAML/C# metro apps using SharpDx :)

Element Property Binding Improvements in Blend 4 Beta and Visual Studio 2010 RC

Enabling Frame Rate Counters for XAML Applications in Windows 8

Enhancing the Win8 Slider experience

Enumerating Cameras and Camera Locations on Your Surface RT

Everything You Need to Start Writing Windows 8 Metro Applications Today

Example Metro app /WinRT: background task that uppdates internet connection and metering (roaming) information based on network changes

Example Metro app /WinRT: Change/switch styles or datatemplates at runtime using code behind

Example Metro app /WinRT: Homemade Chart and DatePicker for Metro Apps

Example Metro app /WinRT: How to change default selected item colors when using Listview?

Example Metro app /WinRT: How to change the style of the radiobutton

Example Metro app /WinRT: Out-of-the-box Icons for Buttons (XAML)

Example Metro app /WinRT: Serializing and deseralizing objects to StorageFile and LocalFolder using generics and async/await threading

Example Metro app /WinRT: Show/Hide items in AppBar based on current selected FlipView Item

Exploring Win8 Metro: The RichEditBox & FilePickers

Expression Blend 4 - XAML generation tweaks

FallFury – now available on Channel9 Coding4Fun and CodePlex

Fast and fluid animations in your Metro style app

Five Ways to Incite Revolution

FREE Silverlight resource button templates - Media

From the Windows 8 Camps: GridViews with Inlined Group Headers

Fun Theme-Friendly Windows Phone Icon

Fundamentals of Windows 8 XAML/C# Metro Style Apps

Getting Started Building Windows 8 Store Apps with XAML/C#

Getting Started with XAML: Slides and demos

Getting the most out of your pixels - adapting to view state changes

GridView SelectedItem Binding Gotcha in WinRT

GroupBox Sketching Control for WPF applications Using Blend

How to create custom XMLNS namespaces to keep your XAML clean

How to Create new IStorageFiles in WinRT (C#)

How to Debug a Windows 8 Metro Secondary Tile

How to improve performance in your Metro style app

How to invoke javascript functions in a WebView in Windows Store Apps

How to use the Accelerometer in Windows 8 C#/XAML Applications

IgnoreWhitespace: a Custom Attached Property for WPF

Implement a ‘smart banner’ for your Windows Store app

Implement a NavigationService for MVVM in Metro Applications

Input Validation in Windows 8 Store apps

Insider’s view: Authoring XAML-based Metro style apps in Blend Beta

Introducing Xaml TV

Isolated Storage Helper For C# and XAML based Metro Application

Kaxaml 1.0 is Finally Done

KeyFrames and More Bouncing Balls

KeySpline Animations

Knockout Style Observables in XAML

Known Issue: XAML Designer in Visual Studio 11 Beta Crashes on Launch

Koch Snowflakes on Windows 8 with XAML

Layout transform in Windows 8 WinRT XAML

Life changer XAML tip for Visual Studio

Lighting Effects in your XAML/C# metro apps :)

Lives Tiles in XAML based Windows 8 Metro Application

Lunch With Interact - MVVM For Tards

Metro app development hidden gem: anonymous type binding

Metro Theme Resources and Templates

Metro UX with XAML: Create a custom GridView

Metro UX with XAML: Introduction to the Semantic Zoom - Part 1: Grouped Zoom

Metro XAML Nugget: App Bar AutoMagic

Metro: Implement a parallactic scrolling for your GridView

Metro: Incrementally load GridView and ListView with ISupportIncrementalLoading

Metro: Wire events to ICommand with a (not so simple) extension

Minimalistic MVVM for Windows Runtime XAML Platform Development with C#

Modal Dialogs in Windows 8 Metro

Modularity in Silverlight Applications - An Issue With ModuleInitializeException – Part 2

Monetize your Metro style app with Microsoft AdCenter

More XAML Gradients

MoXAML 2.4 Released

Multiple Point Animation

New Adobe Illustrator-To-XAML Plug-In

New Video: Introduction to Xaml

Newline Character in XAML

Now children, is all that Name-calling really necessary? Using FrameworkElement.Name at runtime

Part 108 - Windows Phone - Searchable List Box

Part 17 - Windows Store - English Handwriting Recognition

Part 2: Developing for a multitude of clients: Strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check

Physics Helper XAML for Metro WinRT

Physics Helper XAML Update

Positioning Popup Menus in Windows 8 Metro

PRI Files Deep Dive - Building Global Windows 8 Metro XAML Apps Part 3

PRI Files Deep Dive - Building Global Windows 8 Metro XAML Apps Part 3

Process Lifetime Management (PLM) and Managing State in Windows 8 Metro C# Applications

PropertyPathHelper

Quick tip: Commenting out properties in XAML

Quick Tip: Show WinRT XAML Binding Errors

Radial gradients + Mini-path geometry sprites + infinite-scrolling inertial canvas = :)

Recording of recent SilverlightShow webinar 'Intro to XAML Development on Windows 8' now available online

Redial – A Dial Custom Control

Required Attribute on an Entity

Reset PageNumber per Report Group in Telerik Reporting

Running User Code in the XAML Designer: Blend and VS 2012

Seeding your Metro style app with a SQLite database

Self Editing XML File

Shader 101

ShareAppBarButtonStyle for XAML

Show ratings with stars in WinRT XAML

Silverlight 3.0 XAML Demystified – The Basics

Silverlight 4 Binding and StringFormat in XAML

Silverlight 5: a Markup Extension example

Silverlight Gauge Graphic

Silverlight MEF: Custom ExportProvider for Attached XAML Exports

Silverlight Tip of the Day#27 – Displaying Special Characters in XAML

Silverlight VisualState changes using DataBinding not code behind

Silverlight Windows Authentication (the Prism way)

Silverlight XAML Viewer with info callouts and links to MSDN docs

Silverlight/WPF: Don't name elements unless you have to: why x:Naming everything is bad

Silverlight/XAML - Learning by Coding

Silverlight: Centering a RadioButton

Silverlight: Navigation Framework tip: using the XAML escape sequence

SilverlightDefaultStyleBrowser tool and source code

Simple Dependency Injection with XAML

Simple example (downloadable): adding data (WinRT / Metro App) using data bindning in XAML

Simple Path Data Resources that I Add to Every WPF Project

Simple Windows 8 Metro style ‘Maps App’

Simulating A Tab Control in a Windows 8 Application–Take 2

So you want XAML tools

Solved Exception in Passing Relative URI to Windows Runtime

Some Best Practices for Silverlight Application Development (XAML)

Some Best Practices for Silverlight Application Development (XAML)

Split Generic.xaml in Silverlight Applications

Store the access to files/folders instead of using a picker each time !

StringFormat for TimeSpan

Structuring XAML in Blend

Synchronize Data between a Silverlight ListBox and a User Control

TechDays demo: Windows 8 list controls

TechDays demo: Windows 8 metro with ASP.NET Web API & EF

Telerik DatePicker XAML control for Windows 8

The “From zero to Knowing MVVM” video

The New Iteration

The New Iteration: A Whitepaper on the XAML Revolution

The subtleties of Silverlight’s cross-browser compatibility

The taming of the Metro GridView

The WPF/E Gear Keeps Turning

The XAML Project

TiltEffect for Windows 8 Metro XAML

Tip: Binding an Image element’s Source property to a Uri in WinRT XAML

Tips and tricks for C# and JavaScript Windows 8 developers: Using notifications for non-modal messages

Tips and Tricks for C# Metro developer: How to find a XAML control by its name

Tips and tricks for C# Metro developers : Handling the keyboard events

Tips and Tricks for C# Metro developers: Handling the virtual keyboard

Tips and tricks for C# metro developers–The FileExistsAsync method

Tips and tricks for C# metro developers–The Flyout control

Tips and Tricks for C# Windows 8 developer: Read and write roamed application settings

To Metro and Back Again: A Developer’s Tale (Part 1)

To XAML, with love (an experiment with XAML Serialization in Silverlight)

Toying with the idea of a Metro “Ribbon” (part 1)

Try to Define Visuals in XAML

Understanding XAML Screen Layout

UniformGrid for Silverlight

Unit Testing XAML Data-Bindings in Silverlight

Update: XamlPadX v2.5

Updating Word to XAML Converter

Use Bing Maps in your Windows 8 XAML applications

Use Reflector to determine what .NET namespaces are aliased to Silverlight XAML namespace

Using a ToggleButton in your XAML Metro style AppBar

Using CLR 4 Dynamics To Mock Bindable Objects in XAML

Using Dynamic XAML in Windows 8 Metro

Using EventTrigger in XAML for MVVM – No Code Behind Code

Using FX effects in your managed metro apps

Using GridView ItemTemplate and ItemTemplateSelector at the same time

Using OData in Windows 8 Apps for Windows 8 RTM

Using SQLite in a Metro style app

Using vector data for AppBar icons in XAML

Using XAML to create a custom wallpaper image for your mobile device

Using XmlDefinition and XmlPrefix to better organize namespaces

ValueConverters Intro: BoolToVisibility Converter

Variable-sized grid items in Windows 8 apps

Video Demo: Overview of XAML authoring features in Blend and Visual Studio

Video Demo: Working with the XAML AppBar in Blend and VS 2012

View XAML examples

Vista Gradients Resources Pack 1

Visual Studio Tip: Open XAML in code only mode

W8WIL #2: Declaratively Specifying an ItemTemplate in a Fragment

What’s New in Windows Phone 8 (6 out of 8)–Location services and maps

Whitespace in XAML

Win 8 Page Navigation

Win 8–Some Things Are Just Too Easy

Windows 8 & Data Binding. Part 4–Data Conversion

Windows 8 & Data Binding. Part 5–Binding to Lists

Windows 8 – Overriding Metro app resources

Windows 8 and the future of XAML Part 6: Tiles, toasts and badges

Windows 8 and the future of XAML Part 7: The application lifecycle of Windows 8 applications

Windows 8 and the future of XAML: Part 2: The Windows Runtime (WinRT)

Windows 8 and the future of XAML: Part 5: More contracts in WinRT/Windows 8

Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta – Local and Roaming application data storage (Part 5/11)

Windows 8 geolocation API: First run

Windows 8 Metro Application AppBar trick

Windows 8 Metro Apps: The 8 Must-Know Tricks! Day 3

Windows 8 Metro Style Apps – Layout and Orientation Management with XAML

Windows 8 Metro Style Apps Background Audio with XAML/C#

Windows 8 Metro Style Apps–Process Lifecycle Management

Windows 8 Metro: Create your apps with simplicity in mind

Windows 8 Metro: Dealing with new metro controls

Windows 8 Metro: Discovering the Application Bars

Windows 8 Metro: Improve GridView and ListView with SemanticZoom and Incremental Loading

Windows 8 Metro: Layout, view states and navigation

Windows 8 Metro: Starting your first App from scratch

Windows 8 Primer–Data Binding (Part 1)

Windows 8 XAML in Action: Here Comes the MEAP! (and limited time 40% discount code)

Windows 8 XAML Tips - Async Search Suggestions

Windows 8 XAML Tips - Detect App Deactivation

Windows 8 XAML Tips - Settings Demo

Windows 8 XAML Tips - Show a task pane

Windows 8 XAML Tips – Custom Fonts

Windows 8, XAML and Displaying Multiple Sized Items

Windows 8–Data binding Part 2

Windows Phone 8 Multi-Touch Behaviors available on CodePlex

Windows Phone 8 navigation part 3–assembling the MVVMLight app

Windows Phone From Scratch #4 – First Xaml

Windows Phone Image Button

Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML: Using Typescript in Windows Store apps

Windows Store apps: the case of missing StringFormat or Binding on the Run

WinRT app guide: Step 10: Adding a lightweight database (SQLite) and CRUD support + two-way element binding

WinRT app guide: Step 12: Async CRUD with SQLite and an awesome piechart

WinRT app guide: Step 13: Adding a horizontal chart and custom pallets for the charts

WinRT app guide: Step 2: The Plan

WinRT app guide: Step 3: Creating the basic UI

WinRT app guide: Step 4: Adding RadControls for WinRT/Metro

WinRT app guide: Step 5: Adding the model and some helper classes

WinRT app guide: Step 6: Adding a DataTemplate to the ListView

WinRT app guide: Step 7: Using CollectionViewSource in WinRT

WinRT app guide: Step 8: Typography and color compliance, styling up the app and the RadControl chart

WinRT app guide: Step 9: Adding the editing field

WinRT XAML Toolkit is Growing

WinRT/Metro App Q n’ A: Can I set the MaxDropDownHeight on a ComboBox?

WinRT/Metro App Q n’ A: How do I get the screen resolution and scale?

WinRT/XAML Colour Picker (using SharpDx)

Working with NFC–Take 2

Working with Tile Notifications in Windows 8 Store Apps – Part I

WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers - Introduction to XAML and Silverlight

WP7: Add User Controls in background thread

WPF vs. Silverlight - Part 10 - XAML Parser Differences

WPF, CheckBoxes, Design

Xamalot.com

Xaml 2009 Features: Built in Types

XAML and Windows 8 Development

XAML AppBar Button Styles for Windows 8

XAML Attributes on Separate Lines

XAML Authoring in Blend and VS: Workflow, tools, and tasks

XAML Default Button

XAML Element Binding

XAML Files for Location Visualizations in Silverlight and WPF

XAML Files for Location Visualizations in Silverlight and WPF

XAML Files for Location Visualizations in Silverlight and WPF

XAML guidelines and best practices

XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2

XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 for Cider version 2.1 Silverlight 4 Support

XAML Power Toys from Karl Shifflett

XAML practices series, part1

XAML Snippets and Visual Studio

XAML Spy August 2012 Update

XAML Spy September 2012 Update

XAML Tip: Setting Attached Properties from Code

XAML Transformation 101

XAML/WinRT/Metro App Q n’ A: How to set border to TextBlock height and width?

XAML: Gradients

XamlCruncher for Silverlight

XamlPadX V3.0

XamlTune -- SVG to XAML

xml syntax highlighting in Silverlight

Yet Another Podcast #51–Shawn Wildermuth: //build, Xaml Programming & Beyond

Yet Another Podcast #69–Ward Bell

Zero to Hero: XAML from the ground up


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