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INotifyPropertyChanged with Compile Time Checking

Wed, 23 May 2012 13:34:58 GMT

neat little tips for wpf

Thoughts and Technology: Custom Resizable Windows in WPF and Winforms

Mon, 21 May 2012 05:53:55 GMT

The following post is relevant for both WPF and Winforms projects, wishing to create custom looking windows that can be dragged and resized from all directions (or specific ones).

WPF Architecture

Tue, 15 May 2012 17:32:48 GMT

gives overview of WPF architecutre

Indecent things with Mono.Cecil - An alternative to ILMerge for WPF

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 05:35:50 GMT

ILMerge doesn't work on WPF assemblies, there are alternatives but they issues. Here is another take using a little known CLR feature not usable from C# and black magic IL kung-fu using Mono.Cecil

A Nice Addition to the Empty WPF F# Template

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:55:01 GMT

This post announces the awesome new features provided by the XAML type provider from FSharpx that are now available in the F# Empty WPF project template.

Build a p2p chat application with WPF and ASP.NET Web API

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:09:23 GMT

Learn how to build a fully functional WPF p2p (peer-to-peer) chat application with ASP.NET Web API and .NET 4.5

Auto-Notifying View Models in Silverlight and WPF

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:39:36 GMT

Quickly create View Models that automatically notify XAML bindings when property values change, without having to manually raise a PropertyChanged Event Code view model properties as: public virtual int MyIntegerProperty { get; set; }

Fade-Trimming TextBlocks in Silverlight and WPF

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:39:14 GMT

Samuel Jack describes how to replace ellipsis of long text with a nice fading effect in WPF and Silverlight.

Microsoft Excel decimal key behavior in WPF

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:14:29 GMT

Article which describes how to get the same behavior for the decimal key as in Microsoft Excel for a WPF application.

Another Way To Kick-start F# WPF Apps

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:00:40 GMT

This post introduces a new F# WPF Empty project template.

Another Way To Kick-start F# WPF Apps

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:00:40 GMT

This post introduces a new F# WPF Empty project template.

Another Way To Kick-start F# WPF Apps

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:00:40 GMT

This post introduces a new F# WPF Empty project template.

Event Handler Memory Leaks, Unwiring Events, and the WeakEventManager

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:47:02 GMT

Many developers don't realize that a common source of memory leaks in .NET applications is the event handler. WPF 4.5 includes built-in support for weak events to help us do the right thing and not eat up all the available memory.

Design time data in WPF and Blend with little effort

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:28:43 GMT

Simple article that shows how easy is to create Design Time Data in WPF for Blend.

Dynamic Wpf DataGrid Columns using PropertyDescriptors

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:09:59 GMT

WPF DataGrid control used in combination with custom ObervableCollection<dynamic> implementing ITypedList and providing PropertyDescriptors which enables adding columns dynamically at runtime. Columns definitions are also strongly typed and advanced column data generation can be provided by lambda delegates.

Coded UI Tests : WPF Utilities

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:36:37 GMT

I played a lot with Coded UI Tests API on WPF applications these last weeks. It turned out that this is a really powerful framework available to use but that we need to write a lot of code ourselves even for simple things. You may already know the coded ui test utilities of Gautam Goenka available on his blog. On this blog post, I want to introduce a set of complementary helper methods that you can use in your project. The links to the binaries/sources are at the end of the post.

WPF Control Dev review and thoughts on UX (User Centered Design)

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:52:53 GMT

WPF Control Development book review and thoughts on UX design

A WPF ListBox which acts like an Apple style navigation bar

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:56:30 GMT

A WPF ListBox which looks like the navigation bar used on the Apple website.

[WPF] Using Linq to shape data in a CollectionView

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:24:54 GMT

This article describes a way to use Linq to specify the filter, sort and grouping of a WPF CollectionView.

WPF 4.5 - Part 13 : binding to types that Implement ICustomTypeProvide

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:27:08 GMT

This is the part number 13 of the serie on the WPF 4.5 new features. ICustomTypeProvider is an interface already known in the Silverlight 5 world but it is shipped with full support in WPF 4.5 too. In this post we will discover what is the interface ICustomTypeProvider and how it can be used in WPF 4.5 !

Information on upgrading Kinect Applications to MS SDK Beta 2.

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:46:16 GMT

Introduction Microsoft recently released the Kinect for Windows SDK Beta 2. It contains many enhancements and fixes that can be found here. The only problem with it is that a lot of current demo applications no longer function properly. Today, I'm going to walk you through a typical scenario of upgrading a Kinect application built with Beta 1 to Beta 2. Note: This tutorial covers WPF, but you can use the same techniques for WinForms.

WPF Office Ribbon control

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:23:33 GMT

Shows you how to use the WPF Office ribbon control.

UnicornManager: Prism 4, MEF, WPF, EF 4.1 code first, NuGet, MVVM, ...

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:55:33 GMT

Discovering Prism 4, MEF, WPF, Entity Framework 4.1 code first, MVVM by using NuGet, DataValidation etc...

Using Ninject with MVVM Light

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:48:16 GMT

A short tutorial on how to utilize Ninject in a WPF MVVM Application.

FREE WPF and Silverlight Online Prism Training from PluralSight on Nov

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:41:32 GMT

Blaine Wastell highlights 3 hours of free training materials from PluralSight for Prism available between 12th and 14th November. The training will look at Prism 4's use in WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone applications. (from The Morning Brew)