WpfAboutBox: Intro

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I've been testing out some of the different possibilities in WPF with a sample AboutBox -- every program has one and they're not overly complex (so they make a good starting point). Also, for those of you WinForms-turned-WPF devs out there, you've probably noticed that there's no WPF equivalent of the AboutBox item template that is available for WinForms projects. So, providing one may actually be useful for some of you out there.

From a learning perspective, I've been playing around with different types of layout and some databinding. And, my WpfAboutBox has been a good tool for learning these things.

My plan going forward is to:

  • Publish some posts with interesting bits I've learned so far... (actually some of my earlier WPF posts this month have come from this work).
  • Create an item template for a WpfAboutBox.
  • Port this over to Visual Studio 10 when Beta1 releases.
  • Convert the item templates to extensions that can be published online and installed through the new Visual Studio Extension Manager.

I'm hoping this will help me learn more about WPF and perhaps show you a very cool new feature of Visual Studio 10.