In no particular order, here's a selection of interesting and
recently maintained WPF projects I've found on CodePlex. This is by
no means a complete list, so if you have some favorites, please
mention them in the comments.
Application Frameworks and Guidance (MVVM, MVP etc.)
Prism
Prism 4 - Released November 12, 2010
Prism provides guidance designed to help you more easily design
and build rich, flexible, and easy-to-maintain Windows Presentation
Foundation (WPF) desktop applications, Silverlight Rich Internet
Applications (RIAs), and Windows Phone 7 applications. Using design
patterns that embody important architectural design principles,
such as separation of concerns and loose coupling, Prism helps you
to design and build applications using loosely coupled components
that can evolve independently but that can be easily and seamlessly
integrated into the overall application. These types of
applications are known as composite applications.
Prism includes reference implementations, QuickStarts, reusable
library code (the Prism Library), and extensive documentation. This
version of Prism targets the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 and
Silverlight 4 and includes new guidance around the
Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern, navigation, and the Managed
Extensibility Framework (MEF). Because Prism is built on the .NET
Framework 4.0 (which includes WPF) and Silverlight 4, familiarity
with these technologies is useful for evaluating and adopting
Prism.
Caliburn Micro
Source Updated daily
A small, yet powerful implementation of Caliburn designed for
WPF, Silverlight and WP7. The framework implements a variety of UI
patterns for solving real-world problems. Patterns that are enabled
include MVC, MVP, Presentation Model (MVVM), and Application
Controller.
Caliburn
Release 1.1 : June 28, 2010
Designed to aid in the development of WPF and Silverlight
applications, Caliburn implements a variety of UI patterns for
solving real-world problems. Patterns that are enabled by the
framework include MVC, MVP, Presentation Model (MVVM), Commands and
Application Controller.
MVVM
Light Toolkit
V3 SP1 - April 18, 2010
The MVVM Light Toolkit is a set of components helping people to
get started in the Model - View - ViewModel pattern in Silverlight
and WPF. It is a light and pragmatic framework that contains only
the essential components needed.
WPF
Application Framework (WAF)
Release 2.0.0.1 : Nov 21, 2010
The WPF Application Framework (WAF) is a lightweight Framework
that helps you to create well structured WPF Applications. It
supports you in applying a Layered Architecture and the
Model-View-ViewModel (aka MVVM, M-V-VM, PresentationModel)
pattern.
Cinch
Source Updated October 17, 2010
Cinch is a fully featured WPF MVVM framework that makes it
easier to develop rich MVVM WPF applications. It also provides UI
services/threading/unit tests helpers and much more.
Cinch is a WPF ModelView-ViewModel framework that takes the UI
services route to provide a rich WPF MVVM framework that comes with
several standard services out of the box.
Application Templates and Window Management
Chronos WPF (I really like the look of this
one)
2.0 Beta 2 : November 6, 2010
Chronos WPF is a framework for development of MDI applications
using Windows Presentation Foundation.
AvalonDock
v 1.3.3571 July 12, 2010
AvalonDock is a WPF controls library which can be used to create
a docking layout system like that is present in VisualStudio. It
supports fly-out panes, floating windows, multiple docking manager
in same window, styles and themes and it can host WinForms
controls.
This library is the successor of the 'WPF Docking Library' that
was published on CodeProject quite a while ago (http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/WPFdockinglib.aspx).
Controls and Toolkits
Extended WPF Toolkit
Current Release: Nov 7, 2010
The Extended WPF Toolkit is a collection of WPF controls,
components and utilities made available outside the normal WPF Toolkit. It includes
controls that are missing from the WPF Toolkit, or that have been
ported over from the Silverlight Toolkit. It
also contains controls that I think are just nice to have.
Visifire
Charts
v3.6.4 on November 19, 2010
Visifire is a set of open source data visualization components -
powered by Microsoft Silverlight and WPF. With Visifire you can
create and embed visually stunning animated Charts within minutes.
Visifire is easy to use and independent of the server side
technology.
WPF
Chromium 4 WebBrowser Control
Source Updated October 13, 2010
Being able to render and interact with webpages within WPF opens
up some great opportunities. This project mixes Google's Chromium
project, a great wrapper called Awesomium and a little WPF 4.0
pixie dust...
InfoStrat.VE
Latest Source release November 15, 2010
This control provides a WPF interface for the Bing Maps 3D
control, complete with data binding for camera control and
WPF-based pushpins. All Win32 restrictions (air space control, no
rotation or visual brush) are eliminated. Microsoft Surface and Win
7 Touch are also supported.
Fluent
Ribbon Control Suite
v2.0 : November 12, 2010
Fluent Ribbon Control Suite is a library that implements an
Office-like (Microsoft® Office Fluent™ user interface) for the
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). It provides well-customized
controls such as RubbonTabControl, Backstage, Gallery,
QuickAccessToolbar, ScreenTip and so on. It is bundled with the
most up-to-date Office 2010 styles.
Validation Toolkit for WPF &
Silverlight
v0.65 : October 29, 2010
Validation Toolkit for WPF & Silverlight displays
automatically validation errors coming from both Data Annotations
on the View Model and Asynchronous calls to Web Services. The View
Model is wrapped into an object that supplies all needed interface
implementations.
Perspective - Easy 2D and 3D programming with
WPF
V2.0 September 5, 2010
Perspective is an experimental and pedagogical .NET class
library for building WPF user interfaces :
- 2D controls and utility classes to build skinnable and
localizable applications,
- 3D controls and basic geometrical shapes (polygons, cube, sphere,
ring, etc.)
PropertyEditor for WPF (a property grid
control)
Source updated daily
This property grid control gives the same functionality as the
VS PropertyGrid, but is styled with a TabControl/GroupBox layout.
The control uses WPF binding and supports custom data
templates.
UX
Silverlight 4, WPF 4 and Windows Phone 7
Multi-Touch Manipulation
Beta July 12, 2010
Silverlight / Windows Phone 7 behaviors and WPF 4 samples
implementing Multi-Touch Manipulation (Gestures) and Inertia.
Themes and Styles
WPF
Themes
Source Updated for .NET 4 on May 2010
WPF Themes is a collection of free themes to be used in WPF
projects
Tools
Snoop
WPF
June 25, 2010
This is the CodePlex project for Snoop ... the WPF utility by
Pete Blois and now maintained by Cory Plotts that allows you to
spy/browse the visual tree and change properties ... amongst other
things.
Perspective FX: A ShaderEffect Generator for WPF
and Silverlight
2.0 Alpha : October 31, 2010
Usually, writing custom graphical effects classes for WPF or
Silverlight requires some HLSL programming skills. For a .NET
programmer, learning this language may be sometimes long and
tricky. The Perspective FX framework aims to help you to build
custom effects classes without HLSL coding. It generates the HLSL
code and the .NET wrapper for WPF or Silverlight. It produces an
assembly that you can use in a WPF or Silverlight application.
