Today I’d like to show some screenshots of a brand new control that is being added to our Views for WPF product in the upcoming 2010.2 release.
The new control is a book control that allows you to render any WPF content within its pages. You have complete control over how the book is rendered, its orientation, and much more.
Page transitions are completely animated using sophisticated curling algorithms. Hot spot areas at the page corners curl towards the mouse and the page turn follows the mouse exactly like a real book’s pages would turn.
You can design product brochures, travel guides, and more.
Semi-transparent pages are fully supported too, meaning that you can layer multiple pages on top of each other. In the screenshot above we show how a children’s flip book can be created where each page has a semi-transparent area that layer to create a castle scene. The page being turned has a tree on it.
The book control has virtualization capabilities and can be bound to custom data. Any WPF control can be used in pages as content.
Be sure to check out this new control when it appears in the upcoming WPF Studio 2010.2 version. It will also appear in the future Silverlight 2010.2 version.