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Vista "breadcrumb" bar progress indicator using ViewPort

Vista has a brand new "breadcrumb" bar replacing the old address bar. If you have a relative slow pc running vista (like me) and open a explorer window, the new "breadcrumb" bar acts like a progress bar showing the progress of the loading of the items. To recreate this in WPF is relatively simple! I first created a user control that looks similar to the "breadcrumb" bar. Next step is to add a grid, progress bar and a view box. Lastly add the user control to the view...
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What is the difference between WPF on XP and Vista

Last night I wanted to try and find out what the difference is between XP and Vista’s implementation of WPF. I found an excellent blog by Tim Sneath were he summarized the following as the major differences: · With DWM and a WDDM-class display driver, video RAM is virtualized so you don’t have to worry about WPF being forced into a software rendering mode because it’s run out of headroom; · 3D anti-aliasing is available on Windows Vista with a WDDM driver; · There’s work done to integrate with other...
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