Code Experiments, Launchy Clone using WPF + C#

I’m in the middle of exams season right now, so I haven’t been able to code as much as I’d like. With that said, I managed to find some time during my study week to fool around with C# again. I’ve had a few ideas floating around in my head over the semester, and I wanted to do more work using WPF.

Thankfully, Google was my friend and I found this awesome tutorial at Sam’s Blog: http://blog.280z28.org/archives/2007/03/13/

It’s a 3-part blog post about creating your very own Launchy clone using WPF and C#. You’ll need Visual Studio and Blend, both of which can be downloaded for free off MSDN if you’re a UofT student.

A word of warning though: the version of Blend that’s being used in the tutorial is quite different from the latest version of Blend, so some of the steps will be confusing. In fact, I totally skipped out on section 2.2.3 in part 1 of his tutorial.

In addition, his assumed OS is Windows XP, so part 2 of his tutorial will require some minor tweaks  so check out the comments below his post (yes, I did comment on it).  Otherwise, its a very thorough tutorial and props to Sam  for the exhaustive writeup.