[MIX06] Creating a real world application in WPF session
I am loosing count of the amount of times I have seen the Northface demo :) It's dam cool and really shows what WPF can do so I was a little curious as to the steps that fluid went to.
The pitch that fluid made to Northface was done in photoshop to convey 3D, animation and experince. The code samples shown were taken direct from the whitepaper on MSDN. The NF app has a custom navigation scheme and statemangement scheme. In that way it can control what happens to pages and controls between navigation points. Image montage is a collection that is added to the visual tree (what you see), animated, faded, moved to the next item and repeated. 3D spinny thing is a listbox and listboxitem thats extended to re-render how it displays to the screen. I guess that this was done like this to take advantage of its collection support and databinding. VisualBrush is used to do the display override.
Recommend 3D book for WPF is this little number.