I've scrambled to recover the example source for WPF Succinctly from Syncfusion from a dying hard drive, but I've located most of the source code for your reference. Simply click on the banner below to download. Please let me know if there are any problems found. Thanks for reading.
It's with great pleasure that I let you know about my ebook, WPF Succinctly, published by the great team over at Syncfusion. This book is a part of their succinctly series which offers a wide variety of free ebooks on the hottest software development topics. I'm proud of the book and especially of the final product. I tried to start with the basics (controls, xaml basics) and then work my way up to more advanced topics like MVVM and Commands. The book is full of examples for you to follow along.
I'm currently working on a following up to WPF succinctly called "Orubase Succinctly" which is a book on Syncfusion's mobile hybrid platform. You can learn more about the product on the official Orubase page.
Don't forget to check out the other FREE books in the succinctly series here. Also, I'd like to recommend that you check out the trial versions of the Syncfusion's essential studio suite of controls. The suite includes top notch controls for ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, WPF, Silverlight, Windows phone, WinRT, WinForms and more.
I would love any feedback regarding the book. And please be on the lookout for Orubase succinctly which I should be wrapping up soon.
Until next time,
Buddy James
Syncfusion Essential Studio for WinRT Beta
Syncfusion has been a major player in the 3rd party development component market for a while now. Their products include .NET development UI controls for ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Mobile, WinForms, WPF, Silverlight, and more. The newest tool release is a suite of controls that are made for Windows 8 WinRT development. The product is called Essential Studio for WinRT and it's made up of a plethora of highly attractive, cutting edge controls that are specifically designed for WinRT and touch interfaces.
20 Highly optimized controls
Syncfusion Essential Studio for WinRT comes with 20 control that are designed with touch control and performance in mind. The controls are vast and provide everything that you need to developing cutting edge user interfaces for your Windows 8 applications such as dashboards, maps, charts, and more.
Microsoft Office document creation from within your WinRT applications
The Studio suite comes with controls that allow your application to create Microsoft documents like Word, Excel as well as Adobe PDF documents on the fly. The controls are completely independent and do not require Microsoft Office or Adobe Acrobat to be installed on the machine. This is an incredible value which will allow applications to create receipts, invoices, work orders, or any other sort of document that you'd find in a standard line of business application.
Samples included
As with their other products, Syncfusion has bundled many sample applications (with source code) to help you to get up and running with the tools in no time. The samples are written in C#/VB.NET and XAML.
Creating Windows 8 Graphics with Metro Studio
Syncfusion has also offered a free product called Syncfusion Metro Studio. Metro Studio is an extremely useful application that provides a huge selection of "Metro" style art snippets that you can edit. This is a tremendous solution that helps you to add graphics to you Windows 8 applications. The best part is it's FREE!
The artwork is divided into logical groups for you to choose the art that best suites your needs.
When you select a graphic, you are presented with the option to edit the image. Here you can change the size and color. You can also preform transformations like rotate. Syncfusion Metro Studio allows you to output the edited image as standard image files as well as XAML.
As you can see, Syncfusion have provided two extremely useful tools for Windows 8 developers and not only are they first class tools, they are also free!
Check them out today!
Syncfusion Essential Studio for WinRT Beta
Syncfusion Metro Studio