Yesterday, Microsoft released a new WPF application: photoSuru. photoSuru has been designed to give the a spectacular user experience and demonstrate the power of the WPF platform. You’ll discover in this application a lot of cool things:

  • pixel shaders
  • skinning/theme support
  • dynamic templates
  • clickonce deployment
  • and a lot more !

The good news about that is that the SOURCE CODE IS AVAILABLE. Yes, you read right ! The entire source code is available for free, and moreover, a SDK is available to leverage the functionalities of photoSuru in your own application.

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Here are some snapshots of photoSuru, enjoy :-)

The welcome screen.

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The main screen of the application. Note how each image is used two times to give a nice preview of the album.

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The image browser. You can browse the images using the top control which looks like a film strip (and which is a ListBox by the way :p)

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Note the use of pixel shaders when selecting an image in the ListBox

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The use of pixel shaders over an image (water effect)

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The search functionality is wonderful ! Basically, you type a keyword and you get a set of images. By clicking an images, you’ll discover the keywords that are attached to this image. You can this way navigates easily from images to images…

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I hope I’ll have some free time to investigate the source code. I’m sure there are a lot of things to learn in this new application.