Codeplex sample browser - what UI technology is it?

Question

Codeplex has a strange application for downloading and browsing Windows samples, and I have not been able to understand just what it is:

http://1code.codeplex.com/releases/view/64539

When the click-once application above is installed, it creates a single file in the form of a shortcut which contains the following line only:

http://1code.codeplex.com/releases/clickonce/SampleBrowser.application#SampleBrowser.application, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=48e4844f2d49d017, processorArchitecture=msil

Then, when this shortcut is double-clicked, a sort of browser application comes up, but it has no window borders and is very modern looking. What type of technology is this? I am including the WPF tag otherwise I am at my wit's end as to what it is.

(Wanted to include an image of the said application here but can't seem to upload an image as I am getting the following error: "Failed to upload image; imgur is rejecting the request") Here's a link to that image: https://i.stack.imgur.com/K8QqL.jpg

Thanks.

Answer 1

The initial part about the odd link is simply a click-once application. The rest of the application is hidden away somewhere in your user directory.

The "browser" is simply a window which has had its chrome modified. Could be pretty much any technology. A couple examples in winForms and wpf.

As a caution, if doing a custom chrome in wpf don't use the AllowTransparency="True" if you want your comboboxes and such to work properly on XP.