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Pete Brown writes on a variety of topics from XAML with the Windows Runtime (WinRT), .NET programming using C#, WPF, Microcontroller programming with .NET Microframework, .NET Gadgeteer, Windows on Devices, and even plain old C, to raising two children in the suburbs of Maryland, woodworking, CNC and generally "making physical stuff". Oh, and Pete loves retro technology, especially Commodore (C64 and C128). If the content interests you, please subscribe using the subscription link to the right of every page.

Archive for tag: Tutorial-Winforms-Modernization

• Slides, Videos, and Downloads from my Tech Ed Atlanta 2011 and Recent User Group Talks

  I had the pleasure of speaking at Tech Ed Atlanta last week. While there, I also spoke at the Atlanta Silverlight User Group. The week prior, I also got to speak at the Hampton Roads .NET User Group in Virginia Beach, VA. I had a great time at of them, and met some great developers interested in Silverlight and WPF. Here are the materials from those events DEV331 (and DEV331-R) A La...

  Published Monday, May 23, 2011 | Tagged: .NET, Silverlight, Events, Expression-Blend, Windows-Forms, WindowsClient, Video, Presentations, Tutorial-General-Silverlight, Tutorial-Winforms-Modernization | 3 comments

• Silverlight Connections 2011 Moving from Windows Forms to Silverlight and WPF Presentation

  At DevConnections (Silverlight Connections) this year, I gave a short session on moving your applications from Windows Forms to Silverlight.In that session, I covered a little bit of WinForms, a little Entity Framework Code First, and a lot of code shuffling. I did a bit with the Silverlight navigation framework, and even a little bit of Word automation via COM Automation. Here's th...

  Published Monday, April 4, 2011 | Tagged: .NET, WPF, Silverlight, Events, Windows-Forms, WindowsClient, Presentations, Tutorial-Winforms-Modernization | 14 comments

• Dynamically Generating Controls in WPF and Silverlight

  Some of the Windows Forms developers I've spoken to have said that one thing they want to learn is how to dynamically create controls in WPF and Silverlight. In this post I'll show you several different ways to create controls at runtime using Silverlight 4 and WPF 4. First, we'll start with how to create controls in XAML. From there, we'll move to dynamically-loaded XAML before we ta...

  Published Wednesday, December 8, 2010 | Tagged: .NET, WPF, Silverlight, Windows-Forms, WindowsClient, Tutorial-Winforms-Modernization, Tutorial-General-WPF | 52 comments

• Windows Forms to XAML: Do I really need a Designer for Silverlight or WPF Applications?

  I've made it a personal goal this coming year to help Windows Forms developers (who want to move) move to Silverlight and/or WPF. A common sticking point for development shops planning to adopt Silverlight or WPF after years of work in something like Windows Forms, is that they feel they need a design professional on-team in order to build the same quality apps they've been used to bu...

  Published Friday, November 19, 2010 | Tagged: .NET, User-Experience-(UX), WPF, Silverlight, Windows-Forms, WindowsClient, Tutorial-General-Silverlight, Tutorial-Winforms-Modernization, Tutorial-General-WPF | 22 comments