Shared Library for WPF

Controls

• Animated expander control adds smooth animations while expanding or collapsing
• Animated progress bar animates value changes and adds various states with unique colors
• Glass window allows Aero glass effect to easily be extended into the client area
• Popup button can be used to show popup with custom content
• A custom list box control whose items are presented as radio buttons
• Quickly add a visually appealing reflection to any WPF content
• And many more controls...

Transition Effects

• Drop in replacement for ContentPresenter that adds smooth animated transitions
• Numerous built-in transitions effects
• Extensible framework for building custom transitions
• Easily integrate WPF Pixel Shader effects for unique transitions

Color Selection

• Color selection control using spectrum slice/slider
• Slider control for adjusting color components (ARGB) independently
• Control capable of interactively creating/modifying linear and radial gradient brushes

Additional Features

• Several helper methods for working with visual trees and various extension methods
• Multiple value converters for everything from conditional (if...else) values to string formatting
• Multiple classes for maintaining document references and tracking/persisting recently-used documents
• A framework for easily serializing a hierarchy of objects to XML, and later restoring it

Common Features

• VS and Blend designer support
• XBAP support and much more