Essential WPF

WPF Image Processing by Tomer Shamam

With the release of Windows Vista and WPF, Microsoft has also released the WIC: "an extensible framework for working with images and image metadata. WIC makes it possible for independent software vendors (ISVs) and independent hardware vendors (IHVs) to develop their own image codecs and get the same platform support as standard image formats (for example, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, and WMPhoto)" (MSDN). Unsurprisingly, WPF uses WIC in its core (for example, BitmapSource ). Unfortunately...

WPF Model Data Binding - Part II by Tomer Shamam

In my previous post I showed how to design a data model which provides the following characteristics: Property notification changes In-memory state persistency Commit and Rollback mechanism Dirty flag In this post I will show how to handle multi-threading scenarios with WPF data binding. You can download the complete code from here . Before I will start, I want to give a little background of the WPF threading model, and to explain why you shouldn't change any data-bind object from a different thread...

Installing WLW Beta 3 on Vista x64 by Tomer Shamam

What did I asked? I've only wanted to install the new version of Windows Live Writer Beta 3 on my Vista x64 machine, unfortunately the lame installer refuses to run on 64bit machines (maybe because other components may not support x64). Where is the old working WLW single installer? I don't want the all Live package! So here is what I did to force the WLW to run on my x64 machine: Install the lame WLW beta 3 on an x86 machine (XP or Vista) Copy/paste the "install_dir\Windows Live" folder into Program...