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• Xul Challenge : XAML Calculator Sample

  Posted by akinney to Adam Kinney on Longhorn on May 09 2004, 01:26 AM

  Filed under: UI Samples, XAML

  After receiving good feedback on my counter sample , I've completed my second entry for the XUL Grand Coding Challenge 2004 , the Calculator. This sample was completed in Longhorn v4051 and setup as a project in Visual Studio “Whidbey” (PDC
  

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• Xul Challenge : XAML Counter Sample

  Posted by akinney to Adam Kinney on Longhorn on May 06 2004, 04:03 AM

  Filed under: UI Samples, XAML

  I've completed my Counter Sample for the Xul Coding Challenge . The rest of the samples are shown here . Its pretty interesting to browse through the different samples and compare the markup code. XAML Code below: < Window xmlns = http://schemas.microsoft
  

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• Animating Property Triggers

  Posted by akinney to Adam Kinney on Longhorn on Mar 25 2004, 04:59 AM

  Filed under: UI Samples

  I've found Property Triggers and they are very handy. If you've had to write UI code before I'm sure you are very familiar with rollover scripts and the like. I was working with my button, setup a trigger to change the color when I roll over it, and then
  

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• Ocel: Longhorn RSS Aggregator

  Posted by akinney to Adam Kinney on Longhorn on Feb 19 2004, 08:13 AM

  Filed under: UI Samples, WinFS

  So here it is. [ Download Here ] I wanted to test drive some of what WinFS has to offer so I thought what better thing to store than RSS Feeds. Of course I needed a GUI to manage all of those feeds for me. One of the neat things is that the body of the
  

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• Dynamic Animation Example

  Posted by akinney to Adam Kinney on Longhorn on Feb 10 2004, 01:59 AM

  Filed under: UI Samples

  This is a proof of concept application I thought I'd share. The animation in Longhorn is good, but I couldn't figure how to do exactly what I wanted, some form of dynamic animation. I wanted to be able to react to user input and redraw the objects according
  

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• Quarks version 1

  Posted by akinney to Adam Kinney on Longhorn on Jan 20 2004, 06:18 AM

  Filed under: UI Samples

  Ok, so I guess I will just be the guy who endlessly creates “version 1”s of simple little UI things but this was fun. I am working on a more “Application” like program but its taking awhile, so I do these as a break. So here I
  

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• Avalon Anenome - the beginning

  Posted by akinney to Adam Kinney on Longhorn on Jan 09 2004, 07:37 AM

  Filed under: UI Samples

  I've recently been working on some sample applications, but haven't gotten close to finishing anything. So I thought I'd go back to the simpler UI Samples that I had started with. This is really nothing to fancy, just an exercise in drawing with pathfigures
  

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• NineGridMan now available as a User Sample

  Posted by akinney to Adam Kinney on Longhorn on Dec 15 2003, 08:19 PM

  Filed under: UI Samples

  Today, my NineGridMan Longhorn UI Sample was approved as GotDotNet User Sample. Click here to download
  

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• GlyphImageSource Property on the NineGridBrush

  Posted by akinney to Adam Kinney on Longhorn on Dec 12 2003, 06:22 AM

  Filed under: UI Samples

  Drew Marsh asked for an explanation on what the GlyphImageSource property of the NineGridBrush was for, so I thought I'd show a visual example here. Below the GlyphImageSource is set to a PNG file that consists of the letter Q and a transparent background
  

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• NineGridMan

  Posted by akinney to Adam Kinney on Longhorn on Dec 11 2003, 02:14 PM

  Filed under: UI Samples

  Once I noticed the NineGridBrush , I was very impressed and excited to use it. So I thought of an interesting way to display its usage. Enter the NineGridMan. You'll notice some distortion while stretching him out but I thought I'd still run with it because
  

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• Bouncing Ball v0.1

  Posted by akinney to Adam Kinney on Longhorn on Dec 08 2003, 01:32 AM

  Filed under: UI Samples

  In preparation for adding to the Snow Mountain Textbox scene , I thought I'd jump into Animation and Timelines in Avalon. One of the first examples I did when I was Flash was the a bouncing ball. So I thought I'd try to recreate the ball in XAML/C#. I
  

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• Snow Mountain Text boxes?

  Posted by akinney to Adam Kinney on Longhorn on Dec 05 2003, 12:53 AM

  Filed under: UI Samples

  My blog's subtitle is “Building Snow Mountain Text boxes...”. So what does that mean? In a post by Ryan Dawson , he mentioned “ A textbox can be modeled as a mountain with snow, if someone so wishes. “ as an example of how future
  

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