Everyone wants to make a carousel
This week I finally got my seven video tutorial of "how to make a 3D carousel" completed and posted to the Blend Series collection on www.learnexpressionstudio.com
You would not believe how many people had emailed me in the past asking for a demo of this and of course everyone wants the source code for it at the same time. So I got it done but unfortunately I cant give it away for free as this undermines the business model that pays for all the video content to be posted and watched by many people.
The Carousel is a great control and is certainly one of the first controls that many people see when they see WPF for the first time, and immediately people want to replicate that control to get the same kinds of response. Where it all falls down with WPF is when someone wants to go that one step further and add the control to some Silverlight application that they have been working on, only to find that 3D elements are not supported. My solution allows for the control to be used (or at least replicated) in both desktop and Silverlight development by taking a panel based control such as the canvas and modifying how it lays its child elements out, all done with high school level trig maths to boot!
If you are a subscribed member to the Blend service, then you can go and watch the series now as well as download a sample application with all the source code for you to play with and extend.