Contents tagged with WPF
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Silverlight 3 for Kiosk Apps? Of Course!
Several of the customers I work with are looking to build kiosk or point-of-sale applications with Silverlight. The ease of deployment with browser-based Silverlight applications is definitely appealing. Sharing applications or components between customers’ kiosks and web sites is another appealing reasons to go with Silverlight. This post outlines the architecture decisions between Silverlight and WPF and presents architecture options for Silverlight based solutions. A follow up post will discuss the Silverlight implementation details.
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Win7 Multi-touch. Why wait until WPF4?
WPF 4 is going to fully integrate Win 7’s multi-touch capabilities. with Windows 7 being RTM, you don’t have to wait for WPF 4 to be released for developing multi-touch demos. You can get started today with the native Win7 APIs, or with the WindowsTouch library for .NET 3.5SP1. The .NET library is much easier to work with since the native APIs are rather low level and based on the existing tablet APIs.
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WPF UI Update from Background Threads
I'm trying to do my apps in any type of XAML these days since I finally think I "got it". I wish I could claim that I will break free from the limitations of HTML and my new found liberty will result in fantastic looking apps -- but in reality, I still lack the design skills to come up with something that looks really cool.