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DEVELOPER CHALLENGES
Tim Sneath suggested the idea of a
series of
"capture the flag" developer challenges as a way to learn WPF. Allowing
people a chance to try out their coding skills and showcase some of the emerging talents developing around WinFX.
It first started when
Ian Moulster set the challenge of re-creating an optical illusion using XAML.
Well
Jonathan Hodgson responded to with
working code
(and Ian Griffiths
posted an updated version for the WinFX Sep 05 bits).
So we thought we'd try and see what amazing coders you are out there by setting a number of relatively simple
challenges using WinFX - initially using WPF (Avalon).
CURRENT ENTRIES
Pavan Podila has submitted a Polarium clone written in WPF.
CREATIVE IDEA
The WinFS team showed a
impressive video
at the PDC that contained some clever animations of visualising data.
(Small snippet shown below)
So the challenge is what clever techniques can you think of to creatively
show and use the power of Avalon to enrich the user experience. Nathan Dunlap talked about using
camera angles in 3D space
to provide the user feedback.
So let your creative ideas go and show the WinFX community your skills!
CODING IDEA
Jensen Harris is blogging about the redesign of the Office user interface. So little more coding style to this challenge, build a 'ribbon toolbar' similar to the Office 2007 style including dropdown lists
with styled items for fonts, resources for sharing styles.
Obviously Office 2007 is still in development and we don't want you breaking any copyright, but try coding in XAML/C# something
similar using the ideas of tabs, chunking groups of functionality together.
(Click for larger view)
We'll leave this set of challenges open for the next couple of months. The winners will be showcased on the site (and maybe win a prize).
So show the world your skills!
Email entries to
jonathan_hodgson@hotmail.com, subject: WPF Challenge.
