Sunday, March 16, 2008

FluidKit - Open Source WPF controls, with a very cool "ElementFlow" control

CodePlex - FluidKit

"This is a WPF library containing a powerhouse of controls, frameworks, helpers, tools, etc. for productive WPF development.

If you have ever heard of Drag and Drop with Attached properties, ElementFlow, GlassWindow, this is the library that will contain all such goodies.
Here is the introductory blog post
The library so far ...

  • ImageButton
  • DragDropManager
  • GlassWindow
  • BalloonDecorator
  • ItemSkimmingPanel + SkimmingContextAdorner
  • PennerDoubleAnimation
  • ElementFlow ( New )

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Pixel in Gene - ElementFlow added to FluidKit

"I am glad to announce that the ElementFlow control has been added to the FluidKit library. This has been a popular request for quite some time now. If you are unfamiliar with ElementFlow please have a look at these posts: ( Part 1, Part 2 ).

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Pixel in GeneIntroducing FluidKit - A WPF Library of Controls, Helpers and the likes…

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I have launched a new CodePlex project called FluidKit that aims to tie in all my work under a common library. All future custom controls and WPF goodies will be added to this library. As of today the following items are part of the library:

Custom Controls, Panels

Helpers

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To think I might be able to build a UI with that kind of coolness? Oh yeah, the WPF wave is going to be fun... :)

BTW, the project is currently in a source only mode (which IMHO is better than a binary only node... Source is good ;)

(via LearnWPF.com - 2 Great Free Resources for WPF Developers - ElementFlow and DataGrid 2.0)

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