I’ve made some further changes to the layout, adding the short status information below the tube line name, and switched to only one traffic light for each line.

I used Expression Blend, which looks like quite a good tool. I’m not sure how far I’ll be able to take this, as the design side isn’t really one of my strengths. My  impressions of XAML and WPF, are that it’s big, complicated, and very powerful.

I think it will enable teams to develop very good looking applications, if they can add a designer into the programming team.

I’ve put in a little more work on my WPF app, mostly learning a bit more about XAML. The layout has changed from this:

There are still a few things I want to add, a status bar, an control to show more details.

Install the application here

I’ve started working on my first WPF application. Just a simple application to display the current status of the London Underground. It’s very basic and ugly at the moment, but I’ll be working on it.

Click Here to install using Click Once deployment.

Many thanks to Ben Dodson for providing the api @ tubeupdates.com.