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Microsoft Expression Blend 2 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide
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Microsoft Expression Blend 2 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide

by Corey Schuman, Robert Reinhardt
December 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
208 pages
4h 17m
English
Peachpit Press
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Chapter 12. Browsing Desktop Images with WPF

One of the exciting features of a WPF application is its ability to interact directly with the desktop. Silverlight applications have limited access to local resources, but WPF applications can read and write files to a user’s computer. In this chapter, you’ll build an image browser as a WPF application.

Creating the Layout

The image browser built in this chapter is shown in Figure 12.1. It allows you to pick a folder (or directory) on your local system and view any images there.

The final image browser.

Figure 12.1. The final image browser.

Procedure 12.1. To set up the project:

  1. Open Blend and choose New Project from the Startup ...

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