June 2010
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Flipping ScatterViewItems
If you’re building a Surface or Surface Toolkit application, there’s a pretty good chance that you’re using ScatterView. ScatterView is an ItemsControl, so it’s a great way to show information about a list of objects and allow multiple users to manipulate the objects independently. However you’re usually only showing a small amount of information about the object...
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Modeling the World
I forgot to mention the launch of Modeling the World, a collection of videos and the start of a community from Microsoft Technical Computing.
The lobby is the most interesting bit, and features a gravity simulation developed by Joel Pryde. I was in charge of the video player, which features Smooth Streaming video, a transcript, and extras timed to specific cuepoints in the video. You may...
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PlaneProjection in WPF
Silverlight has an excellent feature called PlaneProjection which enables basic perspective transforms on any display object. That’s great for Silverlight, but when I’m working with Surface, I’m still using WPF 3.5. If I want to do any kind of 3D transform there I need to use the WPF 3D library, which is very powerful and very scary, especially if all I want to do is rotate a...