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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.

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)

Layout adjustments Snapping and OrientationChanges in Metro Applicatio

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:46:30 GMT

Layout is the most important part of any application. The best design for an application gets more credit and love from the users than applications that are designed bad. Metro style applications runs in full screen. Your application does not include a Title Bar, status bar or anything. Microsoft gave us some of the basic layout guidelines that one needs to follow. Lets talk about them here to make you understand how you should layout your application in Metro Applications to utilize maximum flexibility of it.

Understanding basic WinRT Metro Applications and Application Capability

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:33:33 GMT

Windows 8 is already out in Developer Preview form. A new way of building applications in Windows 8 has already been introduced. Lets put up a note to let you know how to build applications for WinRT. In this post you will learn how you can use Capabilities for your application and build your first basic WinRT Metro Applications.

Porting a WPF application to Windows8

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:08:13 GMT

We take a simple WPF app and try to port it to Windows8. What needs to be changed?

WordMerge the C# WPF app

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:30:50 GMT

WordMerge is a C# WPF project that is designed to show how you can modify a ListBox to change the selection behavior. A tutorial is available, a video to show how it works and the full source code can be downloaded.

Create an Excel like Autofilter using the DataGrid and WPF

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:15:32 GMT

Your users are probably used to Excel and how the filtering works, so why not mimic that style of filtering in your own applications? This tutorial shows how you can do it and includes the full source code.

Binding Flagged Enumerations

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:11:33 GMT

Flagged enumerations can present a difficult problem for data binding, this article presents a solution for binding these enumerations to individual CheckBox(s) in a WPF sample application.

Gradiently Coloring Cells in a WPF DataGrid

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:27:51 GMT

Shows how you can use a MultiConverter to color the cells in a WPF DataGrid gradiently based on that cells value compared to the other cells in the grid, or in the column.

WPF 4.5 - Part 11 : New features for the VirtualizingPanel

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:18:16 GMT

Virtualizing panels are involved when an application's performance needs to be improved. It provide a base panel for virtualization of children elements inside it. Instead of creating all the UI element which are inside an ItemControls, only the one which need to be displayed are created. Because the process of creating these elements is intensive, the use of a VirtualizingPanel makes an item controls display faster. The VirtualizingPanel comes with new features in WPF 4.5: two properties named ScrollUnit and CacheLength and virtualization on grouped data. In this post we will discover them in details. This post is a part of a serie on WPF 4.5 new features.

WPF 4.5 : Live shaping(filtering, grouping and sorting of collections)

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:20:10 GMT

For each item list used in a WPF application, a collection view is in fact created and used by the controls. This view enables navigation, filtering, grouping and sorting from the XAML or the code. It is a very powerful feature that is offered to the developers since a long time in WPF. In WPF 4.5 as in WPF 4.0 the grouping, sorting and filtering operations are done when the item is added to the collection or when the Refresh method is called. The drawback is that if an item property value involved in one of these operations is updated, then the sorting/grouping/filtering will not be done again. WPF 4.5 introduce a feature called live shaping which shapes the collection view in live. Let's dig a little more this feature. This post is the tenth part of a serie on the WPF 4.5 new features.

[WPF] Creating parameterized styles with attached properties

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 09:25:12 GMT

This article describes a simple technique to create styles that support small variations without duplicating the style.

WPF 4.5 - Part 9 : binding to static properties

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:58:42 GMT

There is two different ways to make a property bindable: implementing INotifyPropertyChanged is the most known solution, the other one is to create a event named PropertyNameChanged. In WPF 4.0 there is no way to create a static property which can be used by a binding with property change notifications. In this post, part of a serie on the WPF 4.5 new features, we'll see how it can now be done!