MuvEnum is looking for 20 beta testers for its latest product: MuvUnder Cover: The Album Art Sleuth, which is a Windows WPF application for automatically finding and embedding album art into the following file types: APE, ASF, FLAC, M4A, M4P, M4V, MP3, MP4, MPC, MPP, MP+, WMA, WMV, and WV. Using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), […]
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Silverlight 2.0 will include a WatermarkedTextBox (a.k.a. InfoTextBox)
Since I’ve been trying to finish my latest project using WPF, Silverlight 2.0 excites me because I will be able to take a lot of stuff that I’ve done and learned and use it in Silverlight 2.0! Scott Guthrie just posted a sneak peak into the latest offerings that will be coming in Beta 1 along with […]
Vista – Explorer: Disable Full-Row Selection, Add Tabs
One of the changes from Windows XP to Windows Vista is the difference when selecting/deselecting items in Windows Explorer when using the Detail View. In XP, you can deselect all items by left-clicking any column that is not the name column. I love that it is this way. In Vista, good luck trying to deselect […]
Showing different text (or elements) in a disabled ToolTip versus an enabled ToolTip in WPF
I originally started this post with a title of “WPF ToolTip Child Element Visibility Based on the Parent of the ToolTip IsEnabled Property… and you are not it with a dirty dirty dish rag on your toe reading behind a dirty magazine”, but I decided that in the best interest of my sanity (read: “what […]
Upgrade your .NET Tooltips to the Office 2007 style
I’m a big fan of the Office 2007 style tooltips and one of the areas where I feel .NET lets me down a little is in the ToolTip department. Here’s the default .NET ToolTip: Now take a look at the following ToolTips: Not only do they look much better, but they also provide some very […]