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Click the image to run the WPF ScrollingCanvas example xbap or you can get the source code for it. This example creates a custom user control based on the Canvas container. This ScrollingCanvas allows you to scroll any FrameworkElement: text, video, shapes, or even whole scenes. Moreover, you can scroll multiple FrameworkElement objects at the same time in a single scroll container.Both speed and direction of the scroll is controllable via dependency properties. Simply drop the ScrollingCanvas control on the design surface or add it in XAML, add any FrameworkElements you want to scroll to the ScrollingCanvas container and call the ScrollBegin() method. All object scrolling is handled through local animations in the C# codebehind.

Greetings from Italy! I’m still on vacation enjoying Rome, so no new examples from me. However, Kevin Moore left a note indicating that the KevinButton source code, which my SmileyButton was based on, is now available from Kevin’s  Bag-o-Tricks RC1. It has a lot of cool stuff besides the KevinButton, so check it out! Head on over to Kevin’s Blog and peruse some screen shots of it.

 -MGE

Programmatically scrolling to a particular item in a ListView has become absurdly easy in WPF. However, it seems that this is not a well-known feature. I've had a number of people ask me about how to do this and if you google on "wpf ScrollIntoView" you will find almost nothing. All you need to do is get a reference to the item you are trying to scroll to and call the ScrollIntoView method, like so:

Easy, eh? To demonstrate the functionality, I've included this cheezy XBAP example...

Apologies for the lack of recent posts. Things have been hectic with a wedding (not mine) in Hawaii recently and preparing for a trip to Italy next week. Have no fear, though--there are lots of interesting things coming up!

 -Michael G. Emmons