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I have created what I think is a pretty re-usable TimeLine control for WPF. Note it is for WPF only, and I doubt it will ever work in Silverlight due to a Dll dependency on a 3rd party library it has.

The Exif Compare Utility is a WinDiff equivalent for image files that compares the Exif meta-data and displays the differences and similarities. The application is written using WPF and MVVM.

This article introduces a simple XML document viewer control for WPF applications to display XML documents in a formatted way.

The majority of MFC apps have always had an About... menu entry in the main window's system menu, and this was primarily because the App Wizard generated code for that by default. I wanted to do something similar in a WPF application I've been working on, and I wanted to do it in an MVVM friendly manner. In this article I'll explain a neat way of doing it so that you can easily add menu items and attach command handlers to them while retaining the basic MVVM paradigm.

To build realism into 3D scenes, you need to draw with the appropriate materials and transformations help make the drawing process much simpler.

This article explains how to get started with three-dimensional drawing in WPF. It shows you how to build scene data, define lights, and use cameras to view a scene. It also shows how to use WPF's data binding and animation capabilities to make a scene move.

Among many other changes, WPF brings a completely new set of controls. Learn which controls do what and pick up a few tips on getting the most out of them in your WPF applications.

Setting properties and handling events in Windows Presentation Foundation are fundamentally different than they were in Windows Forms. Find out how to deal with properties and events in both XAML and WPF-targeted code.

Learn how to use Windows Presentation Foundation to build engaging, dynamic user interfaces that can really grab the user's attention.

All applications are dependent on data in some form and most developers find themselves writing reams of data access code. Microsoft has been building databinding frameworks for years. Each one promises to solve our databinding woes forever. We're still waiting for the perfect one. In the previous article you were exposed to programmatically controlling data binding mechanisms of WPF. Along with a programmatic interface, WPF also provides a declarative databining interface. This second article will introduce you to using the declarative data binding mechanisms contained in WPF.