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This article reviews a custom WPF panel, named Panel3D, which hosts two-dimensional elements in three-dimensional space. You can supply an instance of Panel3D with objects to display, or you can use it as the items host of an ItemsControl. If you use Panel3D as the items host of a ListBox, the front-most item is automatically the selected item in the ListBox. Panel3D arranges its 3D models along a straight path, and provides animated movement of 3D models along that path. In addition, the panel implements a simple form of UI virtualization so that it runs quickly even if it contains hundreds of items..

Restyling a standard TabControl to look like a Outlook Navigation Pane

This article shows how you can implement a smooth list box that allows intuitive, friction affected, scrolling of the list items. By friction based I mean that the user can apply a dragging force i one direction and the list will keep scrolling after the mouse or stylus is released and then slow down by itself.

I've looked at how lists behave on the iPhone and tried to mimic that to a certain extent, but I'm nowhere near anything as cool as what the iPhone presents.

A base class for adding a rich asynchronous progress animation to any Form

Have you ever been faced with the task of displaying multiple pages on the same Windows Form? Most of us would certainly respond in the affirmative, and most of us have addressed this by using the good-old Tab Control. While tabs are undoubtedly a proven way of handling such cases, there are situations calling for a "less generic" approach. What if we need to make our form a bit more visually appealing and use icons or graphical buttons to flip through pages? What if we don't want to display tabs at all? Many familiar applications feature such graphical interfaces; however, the .NET framework offers no built-in tools to accomplish this, at least at the time of this writing.

One of the really great enhancements in ASP.NET was the introduction of master pages. They help developers to create a consistent layout for the pages in an application. Unfortunatly there is no such concept in WPF. But there is an easy way to build a control similar to an ASP.NET master page.

I have replicated Visual Studio's vertical TabStrip control from the ground up. This lightweight control doesn't have containers which you can dump controls onto, as I have created the control to be used with forms instead of containers. Enjoy this 173 code liner.

In this article you will see how to bind a CheckedListBox to the data source and how to get/set a list of id's for the checked items.

Microsoft Expression Blend is a new full-featured design tool for creating highly-interactive and sophisticated Windows application user interfaces using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). With Expression Blend, a designer can design and create the UI of an application without worrying about the logic of the application. Once the UI is completed, it can be passed to the developer who will in turn code the business logic of the application.

This article presents an advanced technique that lets you bind multiple editable line items to a collection using Windows Presentation Foundation and the Presentation Model pattern. It assumes you are familiar with basic WPF data binding techniques as well as design patterns that object-oriented UI libraries typically use. After an introduction to the sample application used throughout this article, you'll see how applying the Presentation Model pattern insulates this application's UI and business logic layers from one another. Finally, you'll see the WPF-specific details involved in binding a Presentation Model to XAML controls to create a dynamic UI with multiple editable line items.