I am excited to announce that Pluralsight and Microsoft’s Patterns & Practices team have joined forces to provide you with free access to over 4 hours of online Prism training.  That’s right, you heard me correctly. FREE online Prism training sponsored by the one and only Patterns & Practices team.  I know you have some [...]

The PropertyGrid control in the Extended WPF Toolkit was released in version 1.4.0 as beta.  Since then I have had another release of version 1.5.0 in which the PropertyGrid was still in beta.  Well it is beta no more! I have given the PropertyGrid a lot of love an affection over the past few weeks [...]

As you may know, I am the author of a WPF control suite call the Extended WPF Toolkit.  I also spend tons of time on various forums helping people solve problems with their WPF applications.  Lately there have been a number of questions regarding the BusyIndicator control.  The majority of questions deal with using it [...]

So far we have built an earthquake application, mapped an address using geocoding, and even Prism-fied the Bing Maps WPF control.  Now let’s see how to map a route with turn-by-turn directions.  By now it should be no surprise that you will need to complete the following steps before you can create this application. Get [...]

If you know me or know of me you are aware that I am a big Prism advocate/evangelist.  You may have also noticed that I have been playing around with the new Bing Maps WPF control.  So it shouldn’t surprise you that I would find a way to compose a Bing Map of loosely coupled [...]

In my last post I showed you how to get started using the Bing Maps WPF control by creating an earthquake application.  Now I want to introduce you to the Bing Maps SOAP Services.  The Bing Maps SOAP Services is a set of programmable SOAP services that allow you to integrate maps and imagery, driving [...]

Recently you may have noticed that the Bing Maps team released a WPF Map control which is currently in Beta.  In light of the recent earth quake on the east coast of the United States, I thought an earthquake application would be a great way to become familiar with the Map control.  There are a [...]

You may have been wondering why I have been so quite lately here on ElegantCode.  Well the reason is because I have been hard at work getting the next version of the Extended WPF Toolkit released.  Now is the time. The Extended WPF Toolkit version 1.5.0 is now officially released.  You can download it form [...]

It’s that time again.  Time for another release of the Extended WPF Toolkit.  I know it’s only been three short months since the last release, but this release is packed with 11 new controls as well as many bug fixes and updated controls.  I have been working hard to provide the WPF community with a [...]

Back in January I wrote a post on how to add Jump Lists to the Windows 7 Task Bar for your application.  One of the comments for that post was filled with some frustration, because the poster has not been able to find an example of a jump list that was more realistic or geared [...]