We have traditionally used Windows Forms to build very graphical UI applications. Borderless windows with non-square image backgrounds and then use images for all controls including sliders, checkboxes, Radio buttons, buttons etc. To provide a very rich and artistic GUI. Most of the GUI designs are more small utility programs that the user pops up from a tool tray and then sets some values and exits. Others are more robust with a lot of controls that user would use throughout the day for a specific task and but might be also used in a demo room on a big screen to show off technology. A couple of problems with this is that scaling the graphical application for screen size is very difficult to do programatically. The other is alpha blended edges that appear smooth and blend into the desktop is also hard to do with traditional Windows Forms. The otehr issue is the complex creation and maintenance of custom controls to accoplish the look of the graphical controls. This and many other reasons is why we'd like to move to WPF. But I am trying to find good examples of how to do a Grapic heavy application in WPF? I have seen many of the getting started Hello World example which basically show how to do simple windows forms type applications with a window and controls on it but not many examples of how to do graphical UI's. A good example would be a media player like WinAMP with graphic skins for the UI as a WPF application?
Any suggestions on where to look for help learning WPF for this case?
Jeff Davis