Symon, a leading Digital Signage Solution provider, is seeking a UX Architect  / Designer.  This role will be creating instinctive, practical and scalable, visually appealing, user-centric RIAs, while working with internal and external clients to develop meaningful interactive experiences. This role requires ...

Microsoft has launched it's new Art and Technology web site. The site features great examples of people doing amazing things with Silverlight, WPF and Expression Studio. The site not only has some great case studies but it features a ''sandbox'' section where you can get up and personal and learn about the technology, along with a gallery ...

The new service pack (.Net version 3.5 SP1) offers a great number of new controls including a new web browser control. For a long time it's been possible to add browser HTML content to WPF through either the frame control or instantiating a Winforms web browser control. The only problem is that HTML content wasn't really understood or even ...

Microsoft just published two specifications today, they can be  downloaded from  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3356AF19-A36E-4D6D-9D13-C37DB81EE607&displaylang=en [MS-XAML] Xaml Object Mapping Specification 2006 - this describes Xaml's rules. [MS-WPFXV] WPF Xaml Vocabulary Specification 2006 - ...

WPF gives you a lot of functionality, but it's mainly designed to work with vector based graphics. It however does give you capabilites for dealing with bitmaps.. Over at Dwayne Need's Blog, he has a great blog post on how to deal with bitmaps and resolution independence and scaling.. It's definitely a great read to understand how to scale ...

Microsoft Research has announced it's worldwide telescope program which takes Microsoft's photo stitching together with photos from the best telescopes worldwide to map the universe around us in a new and groundbreaking way.. This is a great example of a visual stunning 3D application that use current Microsoft technologies, to do something. The ...

by Don Burnett One of the complaints many WinForms programmers have with WPF is the lack of virtualization support in some of the controls, such as the TreeView control. I kind of understand why they don't support it and why it's not there. From a UI perspective you might not want to confront your users with that many nodes of data to the point ...

I am looking for a WPF guru and I'm hoping that you can help! What we're looking for is a solid WPF developer to help develop graphic intensive UIs for a travel booking site and also for a digital download service. I could bore you with intangible, touchy-feely descriptors like  ''Must have outstanding attention to detail'' but instead I'll ...

SVNConverter to the Rescue! Is your company just starting to use Visual Studio Team Foundation Server for your builds? Do you have to migrate your source from Subversion? There is a handy dandy Subversion converter tool on CodePlex to make your life easy.. It transfers files, folders, version history, branches, and user information from a ...

 Today Tim Sneath announced the release of the Syndicated Client Experiences Starter Kit and Reader SDK. You may not recognize the name but if you have ever saw or used the New York Times Reader WPF application then you know exactly what this is.. And now you can come out with your own syndicated publications with online delivery. ...