Shannon Braun's Weblog

I released a sample that both filters and highlights the results in a listbox a while back.  I got an email from A.V.Ebrahimi about highlighting multiple words when searching.  The sample that I had done... was done in about 20 minutes before a presentation to demonstrate another feature in WPF that didn't require GDI to draw embellishments on the control.  Anyway, to make a long story short... he gave me a solution on how to do it and I forgot to post it as promised:

I was working through some issue with a Visual Studio add-in I am writing and stumbled across something else that may be use and is missing from VS today.  You can view the snippet designer here.

Interesting find... there is an add-in for Expression Blend 2.5 that supports IntelliSense.

TCCC5 will happen October 11th and I will be presenting on building LOB applications in WPF:

There has been a lot of discussion on using WPF to build Line of Business applications. There are a number of aspects that need to thought about before making the decision of whether to use WPF or not. This talk will focus on those elements like Developer Designer Workflow, WPF Learning Curve and Getting up to Speed, Advantages/Disadvantages of using WPF, Limited WPF Control Set, WPF best practices for developing WPF applications and if we finally have a platform that we can write once and run everywhere using xaml, WPF and Silverlight.

You can get more infomration about the event at the TCCC5 website.

I presented at MDC 2008 today about UI Designer and Developer workflow when building WPF and Silverlight applications.

Here is the summary for the session:

Xaml has been touted as the markup language that will make it easier for both UI designers and developers to work on the same UI artifacts. This is accomplished by tooling, processes, and selecting the right approach based on the skills of your resources. There are a number of different approaches that are available for defining how a developer and UI Designer will interact to build Xaml (WPF Desktop and Silverlight) based applications. The talk will discuss all the different aspects that are required including the tooling that enables the interaction between developer and UI designer and important aspects that you should be aware of when using these tools. It will cover the different processes that will need to be put in place to support the software development lifecycle. And we will evaluate the different approaches and discuss how to select the right approach based on the composition of your team. We will also discuss important guidance and best practices that will help your teams be successful in designing your own UI designer and developer workflow.