December 2007 - Posts

Silverlight Ice Skaters - a Holiday Greetings eCard by Stefan Wick's Weblog - Development with Silverlight, WPF and Tablet PC

In the spirit of the holiday season, I have created a little eCard using the Silverlight v1.0 SDK. Use the buttons to add ice skaters and falling snow to the scene :-) Have a wonderful Holiday and a happy New Year 2008! P.S. I am using the Silverlight...

TabletPC Development Gotchas Part 6: InkCanvas Element Selection/Move/Resize by Stefan Wick's Weblog - Development with Silverlight, WPF and Tablet PC

WPF's InkCanvas element provides a lot of built-in functionality for several common, ink-related tasks like stylus gesture recognition, point and stroke erase, as well as the selection, resizing and moving of ink strokes. The key to those features...
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Snipping Pictures with Silverlight by Stefan Wick's Weblog - Development with Silverlight, WPF and Tablet PC

One of my favorite tools on the Tablet PC is the 'Snipping Tool'. I have been using it frequently since the early XP days (back then we shipped it seperately as a Power Toy). Now in Vista, it's part of the main OS and I find myself using it...
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Ink Reflections - in Silverlight by Stefan Wick's Weblog - Development with Silverlight, WPF and Tablet PC

I have received several question from folks about my earlier post on Ink Reflections in WPF . People were curious how to accomplish the same or a similar effect in Silverlight, in the absence of the VisualBrush object. Clearly, WPF's VisualBrush is...
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Rendering ink and image to a bitmap using WPF by Stefan Wick's Weblog - Development with Silverlight, WPF and Tablet PC

To follow-up on my previous blog post and to complete the story about rendering ink onto pictures and saving the results as a bitmap file, I want to show how this is done in WPF. In WPF all rendering uses the pipeline - pictures, videos, ink, text, all...
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TabletPC Development Gotchas Part 5: Rendering ink and image to a bitmap using Winforms by Stefan Wick's Weblog - Development with Silverlight, WPF and Tablet PC

Annotating pictures with handwriting or drawings is a fun and useful scenario for digital ink. In many cases the application user wants to create a new image file with the ink annotation "burnt" into the picture, so they can use the result of...
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