The BOT

Quick, what is it?

The bag of tricks is a way for us to share helpful code for programming in Windows. It's our go-to library for WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone and we've made it open source!

How we helped

  • Strategy / Concept
  • Interaction Design
  • Visual Design
  • Design Implementation
  • Development

Technology

WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone, C#

About the Bag of Tricks

The Bag of Tricks (BOT) Started in December 2005. Kevin was working at Microsoft on v1 of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). He was blogging a lot of code samples and wanted to keep them all together and ensure everything kept working as features changed and evolved as WPF moved towards shipping. The BOT grew to be an important resource for those learning and pushing the capabilities of WPF. It now includes a set of helper libraries that are generally useful for .NET programming with an emphasis on building GUI applications targetting WPF (v4), Silverlight (v4) and Windows Phone 7.

Best of all, it’s completely open source (released under the MIT License). You can download it on GitHub.