Robert's Blog

I’m currently writing my own Twitter client (yes, I know, another Twitter client will hit the market. Whoopee!) and I had to create a converter that turns a regular string to some kind of a rich text box with link’s and that kind of stuff. The algorithm is in my...

Introducing Feed Tracker, my first WPF application. Feed tracker let’s you track your RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 feeds. Just add your feed and stay updated. Features: Can read RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 feeds. New features to come: Multithreading support. Older RSS versions support. New UI. You can get...

I was literally thinking about what should be my first WPF app. As Pete Brown said in one of his articles you need to find a good starting app to get familiar with the technology. First I wanted to create an old (undone) app of mine made in WinForms, but...

Have you ever wondered how do some movies have such cool OS themes and such? Well I have and I think I found out how they do it. It’s either flash or how I’m trying to do it in WPF. WPFs easy ability to customize UI and pretty much everything...

Every body knows that Windows Presentation Foundation provides better support for UI than WinForms does in .NET 3.5 (and RC .NET 4). You can make very beautiful application UI using Visual Studio 2008 (or the new Visual Studio 2010), but this requires very good knowledge of XAML or use other...