Friday, July 15, 2011

VecDraw without Glass border

Today I decided to get rid of the Glass border every window has on Windows7.

I added the Microsoft.Windows.Shell library and had to do some templating and voila! VecDraw has its own border style resp. has no border at all.
The resizing, Drag&Drop and all the buttons at the top right still work the way they should.

While recreating the template I also changed the template for the main menu a little bit and replaced the File menu button with a button called VecDraw.




This will be contained in the next release.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

VecDraw

VecDraw is a small lightweight vector based drawing application that I developed to get to know WPF. It's not as big as some other Vecotor based drawing applications, but hey! I'm the only developer and it's for free...

It can be found on vecdraw.codeplex.com. It's open source and free for installation. So go ahead and install it.



Personalplaner 2.0

The Personalplaner is an old school project that I made.
Unfortunately at that time I was not the developer I am now.
At the moment I am porting my old Personalplaner from WinForms to WPF.
Beside changing the layout and the graphics I am also implementing a MVVM Pattern, and splitting up the layers properly. Besides that I am implementing a proper ServiceLocator Pattern for providing services and the ability for UnitTesting.
Beside redesigning everything I also intend to get some more languages into it (at the moment german is the only option...)

I am still far away from finishing but I'm working on it.

The old Personalplaner can be found at personalplaner.codeplex.com. There is also a somewhat out of date blog that I will update some time soon (hopefuly...) personalplaner.blogspot.com/
The Personalplaner is open source and free for use. So there is no reason why you should not download and install it... :-)
The sources aren't up to date because I use a different repository for my development, but I will update the them when I have a somewhat stable version running.

Here is how the Personalplaner used to look:


Here is how it looks now:




Block Invasion

Block Invasion is my second game for WP7. I intend to create a fast, rapid and new type of Spaceinvaders game.
At the moment it's in absolute development state. I'm still not sure on all the details that will be contained and how the levels will be setup. The artwork is also very sketchy and will need a lot of my time. If someone is good at designing PLEASE contact me ;-)





BattleShips

BattleShips is a Game for WP7 that I am creating at the moment.
It's only a simple game that I mainly created to test and look at game development using xna.
At the moment it's in Beta test stage.