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Spell Checking in WPF
19 December 2007 in Programming | Comments (0)

Did you know WPF comes with spell checking integrated in common controls?

I just discover this feature through Alan Le’s blog.

All you need to enjoy this feature is set its property to true in the XAML file, like this:

<TextBox SpellCheck.IsEnabled=”True” />

You can also change the spell-checker languages by setting the property Language with a supported culture string (i.e: en-US).

Currently, only supports English, Spanish, German and French.

You can also change the context-menu behavior and add your own choices by handling the ContextMenuOpening event.

A big welcome to C4F readers
19 December 2007 in Blogging | Comments (0)

I noticed my blurred WPF post got linked in Coding4Fun blog and my feed readers increased.

I just want to welcome you, and hope you find my stuff interesting and keep reading for a long time.

WPF Contest
13 December 2007 in Microsoft & Programming | Comments (0)

I was so happy to see that Lab49 and Microsoft were having a WPF contest about data visualization… until I realized the contest were only available for residents of Canada, Mexico, the United States, and Puerto Rico.

The contest criteria is very simple, you only need to develop a creative and smart way of interacting and visualize data (the prizes are so good…).

If you happen to live in one of this allowed country’s… heres your chance. At least, I’m not going to be your competition

Mole, the new WPF visualization tool
12 December 2007 in Programming | Comments (3)

Remember Snoop? Well, there a new tool in town, and promises to do even more. The name of this new Visual Studio Visualizer is Mole II, and was created by Josh Smith, Andrew Smith and Karl Shifflett.

From the blog:

Mole is a high performance, full featured, multifunction visualizer that allows in-depth inspection of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) visual and logical trees. For each element in the visual or logical tree the developer can view all properties, visual image, run-time XAML or IEnumerable collection data.

Mole allows developers to drill back into the managed heap and view properties and data structures of the above objects and all their child sub-objects. 

You can download the binaries for VS2005 or VS2008, or even the complete sources at their Blog or at the CodeProject Article.

From my short tests, I was happy to see the lightning fast performance they so humbly promised.

Very cool game concept
10 December 2007 in Fun | Comments (0)

Have you heard of the game Crayon Physics? Well, its an amazing game based on a pretty fun concept.

I love the concept, and I’m sure you will too, as soon as you download the first version and try it yourself.

This game, like a lot of others from Petri Purho, were created in under-a-week time (inspired on the Experimental Gameplay Project).

There are some minor glitches, but luckily there’s already a deluxe version on the works. For what I’ve seen, this new version will be even more fantastic, allowing new stuff to be drawn… even allows moving cars and axis.

I can’t wait to play this in some Tablet PC.

Here’s a youtube clip showing the next version: