http://www.codeplex.com/wpf/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Homewpf Wiki Rss Descriptionhttp://wpf.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=WPF Ribbon Preview&ANCHOR#C14216Note: The tan00001 link doesn't have any news--it's about making the old CTP work with VS 2010 B2dcveenemanMon, 16 Nov 2009 00:12:50 GMTNew Comment on "WPF Ribbon Preview" 20091116121250Ahttp://wpf.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=WPF Ribbon Preview&ANCHOR#C14214I have found out a couple of things to watch out for when using the Ribbon controls under WS 2010 Beta. Please see my blog at http://programount.blogspot.com/2009/11/ribboncontrols-and-visual-studio-2010.htmltan00001Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:21:36 GMTNew Comment on "WPF Ribbon Preview" 20091115092136Ahttp://wpf.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=WPF Model-View-ViewModel Toolkit&ANCHOR#C14191@rogerrong: Good question. The primary reason is one of dependencies. In .Net 3.0/3.5, the ObservableCollection class is defined in one of the primary WPF assemblies. Many existing applications that already have data models defined were built on top of .Net 2.0 and don't take WPF dependencies, so as to make it easy to reuse the data models in other places. The NotificationCollection class was to illustrate one way to work around the lack of ObservableCollection&#59; if this isn't a concern for your particular scenario, then using ObservableCollection is perfectly fine, and in fact preferable if it saves from having to write and maintain more code. I'll also mention that the current plan is to type forward ObservableCollection to System.dll in .Net 4.0 for similar reasons. Thanks!PatrickDaninoFri, 13 Nov 2009 01:38:11 GMTNew Comment on "WPF Model-View-ViewModel Toolkit" 20091113013811Ahttp://wpf.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=WPF Model-View-ViewModel Toolkit&ANCHOR#C14181There is a NotificationCollection class defined under the Models of the Messenger.Demo sample project. It looks similar to the ObservableCollection class. I am just wondering why bother to spend effort building such a big class instead of using the ObservableCollection straightforward.

Does the NotificationCollection provide any feature not covered by the ObservableCollection? If the NotificationCollection is a better option to be used by the Models classes, should it be included in the project template?rogerrongWed, 11 Nov 2009 22:25:36 GMTNew Comment on "WPF Model-View-ViewModel Toolkit" 20091111102536Phttp://wpf.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=WPF Ribbon Preview&ANCHOR#C14151It doesn't even support keyboard accelerators yet. Totally unusable in production apps.dacrisSat, 07 Nov 2009 03:01:13 GMTNew Comment on "WPF Ribbon Preview" 20091107030113Ahttp://wpf.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=WPF Themes&ANCHOR#C14147Hi, is there any updates on the WPF theme support Calendar and DataGrid?
The latest news I heard was 2009 Q3 (http://wpfthemes.codeplex.com/), thanks.yagimayFri, 06 Nov 2009 01:28:08 GMTNew Comment on "WPF Themes" 20091106012808Ahttp://wpf.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=WPF Ribbon Preview&ANCHOR#C14122Does this preview support mini-toolbars?

Example: https://knowledge.riverdale.edu/images/3/30/Word_mini_toolbar.pngquimbsTue, 03 Nov 2009 19:00:58 GMTNew Comment on "WPF Ribbon Preview" 20091103070058Phttp://wpf.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=WPF Ribbon Preview&ANCHOR#C14087@rguim Use the discussions page: http://wpf.codeplex.com/Thread/List.aspx?SearchText=ribbonoskarhFri, 30 Oct 2009 13:23:41 GMTNew Comment on "WPF Ribbon Preview" 20091030012341Phttp://wpf.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=WPF Ribbon Preview&ANCHOR#C14080Is there any forum where we can actually discuss development with this Ribbon? I have a couple of doubts that surely someone else had and am trying to talk about them (not being able to update the title of the ribbon during other than the first time - I am sure this is a bug because the title in the task bar is updated, only not in the title of the ribbon - and when maximizing it uses only full screen)rguimThu, 29 Oct 2009 19:10:52 GMTNew Comment on "WPF Ribbon Preview" 20091029071052Phttp://wpf.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=WPF Ribbon Preview&ANCHOR#C14074@shaggy Thanks for sharing the link.

After reading that blog post I got the feeling that there will be no updated ribbon until .NET 4.0 is released, which is late march 2010 at the earliest?
If that is really the case, then at least let us know!oskarhThu, 29 Oct 2009 08:58:36 GMTNew Comment on "WPF Ribbon Preview" 20091029085836Ahttp://wpf.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=WPF Ribbon Preview&ANCHOR#C14051ScottGu just released a WPF 4 update blog. Does not say specifics, but just coming soon. Maybe PDC09???

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/10/26/wpf-4-vs-2010-and-net-4-0-series.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessageshaggygiTue, 27 Oct 2009 13:08:00 GMTNew Comment on "WPF Ribbon Preview" 20091027010800Phttp://wpf.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=WPF Model-View-ViewModel Toolkit&ANCHOR#C14039Please note the Walkthrough - part 2 has a small error. On Page 9 under the App OnStartup, the following lines need to be changed ... not just the addition of the call to LoadContacts (it's not really an error, just a lack of high-lighting ...)

 ViewModels.MainViewModel mainViewModel = new ViewModels.MainViewModel()&#59;

 // Load sample test data for demonstration purposes
 mainViewModel.LoadContacts("Contacts.xml")&#59;

 view.DataContext = mainViewModel&#59;cwtewsSun, 25 Oct 2009 19:31:53 GMTNew Comment on "WPF Model-View-ViewModel Toolkit" 20091025073153Phttp://wpf.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=WPF Themes&ANCHOR#C14031Nevermind. I looked at the code in Reflector. I see the reference to Aero.NormalColor in the code. However, how would we apply ShinyBlue.xaml to the DataGrid?bittondbFri, 23 Oct 2009 19:49:57 GMTNew Comment on "WPF Themes" 20091023074957Phttp://wpf.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=WPF Themes&ANCHOR#C14030In order to get the DataGrid to pickup the _Aero_ theme, you need this:

<ResourceDictionary xmlns:tk="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Windows.Controls&#59;assembly=WpfToolkit"
 xmlns:sys="clr-namespace:System&#59;assembly=mscorlib">

 <!--Enable aero theme on toolkit components-->
 <sys:String x:Key="{ComponentResourceKey
 TypeInTargetAssembly={x:Type tk:Calendar},ResourceId=Theme}">
 Aero.NormalColor</sys:String>

 <sys:String x:Key="{ComponentResourceKey
 TypeInTargetAssembly={x:Type tk:DataGrid},ResourceId=Theme}">
 Aero.NormalColor</sys:String>

 <sys:String x:Key="{ComponentResourceKey
 TypeInTargetAssembly={x:Type tk:DatePicker},ResourceId=Theme}">
 Aero.NormalColor</sys:String>

</ResourceDictionary>

What is I'm using the ShinyBlue.xaml file?bittondbFri, 23 Oct 2009 19:38:05 GMTNew Comment on "WPF Themes" 20091023073805Phttp://wpf.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=WPF Ribbon Preview&ANCHOR#C14029+1, I agree, It would be courteous to inform us. CTP1 exists more than year and no news... no CTP2...daVinciFri, 23 Oct 2009 15:41:39 GMTNew Comment on "WPF Ribbon Preview" 20091023034139Phttp://wpf.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=WPF Ribbon Preview&ANCHOR#C14025Wonder, that Samantha is so silent. As VS 2010 B2 is out, it would be fair to hear something about WPF Ribbon Control.em19Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:54:53 GMTNew Comment on "WPF Ribbon Preview" 20091023015453Phttp://wpf.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=WPF Ribbon Preview&ANCHOR#C14024+1, whats going on here really?oskarhFri, 23 Oct 2009 12:35:01 GMTNew Comment on "WPF Ribbon Preview" 20091023123501Phttp://wpf.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=WPF Ribbon Preview&ANCHOR#C14015Any News? .Net Framwork Beta 2 is out.fry83Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:43:25 GMTNew Comment on "WPF Ribbon Preview" 20091021074325Ahttp://wpf.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=WPF Themes&ANCHOR#C14012You can get the background color issue fixed by doing a few "tweaks".
First, Use Background="{DynamicResource WindowBackgroundBrush}" for each window that needs the theme background color.
Second, fix the Windowbackground brush in the theme files.
e.g.
ExpressionDark theme => <SolidColorBrush x:Key="WindowBackgroundBrush" Color="#FF000000" />
Expression Light theme => <SolidColorBrush x:Key="WindowBackgroundBrush" Color="#FFD6D6D6" />
Bureau black theme => <SolidColorBrush x:Key="WindowBackgroundBrush" Color="#FF333333" />
Shiny Red =>
<Color x:Key="WindowBackgroundBrushGradient1">#FF601818</Color>
<Color x:Key="WindowBackgroundBrushGradient2">#FFAF231E</Color>
<Color x:Key="WindowBackgroundBrushGradient3">#FFF1BCBE</Color>
<LinearGradientBrush x:Key="WindowBackgroundBrush" EndPoint="0.5,1" StartPoint="0.5,0">
<GradientStop Color="{StaticResource WindowBackgroundBrushGradient1}" Offset="0.0" />
<GradientStop Color="{StaticResource WindowBackgroundBrushGradient2}" Offset="0.5"/>
<GradientStop Color="{StaticResource WindowBackgroundBrushGradient3}" Offset="1.0"/>
</LinearGradientBrush>
You can do similar modifications for other themes as wellgeekbyheartTue, 20 Oct 2009 19:45:35 GMTNew Comment on "WPF Themes" 20091020074535Phttp://wpf.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=WPF Themes&ANCHOR#C14011I got the background color issue fixed by doing a few "tweaks".
First, Use Background="{DynamicResource WindowBackgroundBrush}" for each window that needs the theme background color.
Second, fix the Windowbackground brush in the theme files.
e.g.
ExpressionDark theme => <SolidColorBrush x:Key="WindowBackgroundBrush" Color="#FF000000" />
Expression Light theme => <SolidColorBrush x:Key="WindowBackgroundBrush" Color="#FFD6D6D6" />
Bureau black theme => <SolidColorBrush x:Key="WindowBackgroundBrush" Color="#FF333333" />
Shiny Red =>
<Color x:Key="WindowBackgroundBrushGradient1">#FF601818</Color>
<Color x:Key="WindowBackgroundBrushGradient2">#FFAF231E</Color>
<Color x:Key="WindowBackgroundBrushGradient3">#FFF1BCBE</Color>
<LinearGradientBrush x:Key="WindowBackgroundBrush" EndPoint="0.5,1" StartPoint="0.5,0">
<GradientStop Color="{StaticResource WindowBackgroundBrushGradient1}" Offset="0.0" />
<GradientStop Color="{StaticResource WindowBackgroundBrushGradient2}" Offset="0.5"/>
<GradientStop Color="{StaticResource WindowBackgroundBrushGradient3}" Offset="1.0"/>
</LinearGradientBrush>
You can do similar modifications for other themes as wellgeekbyheartTue, 20 Oct 2009 19:43:17 GMTNew Comment on "WPF Themes" 20091020074317P