WPF Goodies in the Silverlight 4 Tools
If you haven’t heard already, the Silverlight Tools for VS2010 have been released, as mentioned by fellow ElegantCoder Bill Moore. In this release there have been some great improvements to the Visual Studio designer that work for both Silverlight and WPF. Lets check them out.
Go To Value Definition
Have you ever had a control that had [...]
NETDUG – Silverlight/WPF Multi-Targeting Presentation Sample Code
If you attended the NETDUG user group meeting last Thursday night and would like to download the sample code for my Silverlight/WPF Multi-Targeting presentation, you can download it here.
Recap:
The Silverlight and WPF platforms are very similar, but they do not have binary compatibility; this means that an assembly compiled for one platform cannot execute on [...]
BSDG – Silverlight/WPF Multi-Targeting Presentation Sample Code
If you attended the BSDG user group meeting last night and would like to download the sample code for my Silverlight/WPF Multi-Targeting presentation, you can download it here.
Recap:
The Silverlight and WPF platforms are very similar, but they do not have binary compatibility; this means that an assembly compiled for one platform cannot execute on [...]
NETDUG: WPF Event Routing Sample Code
Here is the sample code for last Thursday’s WPF Event Routing presentation.
Download Sample Code
I know I covered the subject fast, but I was in a hurry. I had to go to the airport. So here is a quick review.
Event Types:
Direct events are like ordinary .NET events. They originate in one element and don’t pass to [...]
A Simple WPF Loading Animation
Okay, so I needed a very simple and clean loading animation for a multi threaded application I was working on to notify the user that something was in the process of being loaded. So of course the first place I looked was Google, because I figured someone else has already written one and I could [...]
WPF Multithreading: Using the BackgroundWorker and Reporting the Progress to the UI.
I can’t count the number of times someone has asked me about running a time consuming task on a separate thread, but at the same time show a progress dialog with up-to-the-second percentage updates being displayed to the user. Multithreading can be confusing at first, but if you just take it one step at a [...]
BSDG – PRISM/MVVM for WPF Presentation Sample Code
As promised, I am posting the sample code I covered in the presentation for everyone to download and start playing with. If you have any questions or would like me to discuss a specific aspect in more detail just drop me a line.
Download the Presentation Source. This contains the all sample code that I discussed [...]
Write a Sortable ObservableCollection for WPF
You probably have had the need to sort an ObservableCollection at some point in one of your applications by either ascending or descending order. Of course, you can always use the ObservableCollection.OrderBy and ObservableCollection.OrderByDescending, but these methods just return a new collection of IOrderedEnumerable, which forces you have to rebind the DataContext/ItemsSource in your UI, [...]
Debugging XAML
Okay, so I have been asked this question more than almost any XAML related question in the past few weeks; How do I debug XAML? The problem with XAML’s powerful binding model is that it can be difficult to debug errors in your binding paths.
Lets say I have the following code snippet:
<StatusBar>
<StatusBarItem>
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