Another AADND Success

We had another great night at AADND! On Wednesday night, Jennifer Marsman kicked off our meeting by introducing us to some of the basics of 3D graphics in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). She introduced us to XAML - the markup lanuague behind WPF - and introduced us to some of the considerations we are need to be aware of (camera angles, lighting, etc.) before introducing 3D graphics into your applications.

Drew Robbins finished the meeting by transforming a dull and unwieldy application into a visually appealing and very user-friendly application without touching any of the underlying functionality of the code! Drew guided us through some of the new user controls that will be available to us as well as more XAML. The most impressive portion of the demo was when he took a basic listbox with the file paths of individual photos and changed it into a series of thumbnails that responded intuitively to mouse movement and clicks. In short, if you develop user interfaces, you want to spend some time with WPF.