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1Mar/110

WPF–Windows 7 Task Bar Part Three–Overlay Icons

This is the third part in a four part series on how to implement various features of the Windows 7 Task Bar which are features that have seemly been forgotten.  This series will attempt to resurrect the Windows 7 taskbar and cover the following: Thumbnail Buttons Jump Lists Overlay Icons Progress bar icons In this [...]

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1Mar/111

Boise Code Camp 2011–WPF for Dummies and Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) Explained

Wow…  Boise Code Camp rocked this year.  There were great presentations, great people, and great conversations.  You even had an occasional code pairing.  Not to mention the two XBOX Kinects to help fill in the time between sessions.  This year I only gave two presentations; WPF for Dummies and Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) Explained.  If you are [...]

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21Jan/110

WPF – Windows 7 Taskbar Part Two – Jump Lists

About a month ago I started a four part series on how to implement various features of the Windows 7 taskbar which are features that have seemly been forgotten.  This series will attempt to resurrect the Windows 7 taskbar and cover the following: Thumbnail Buttons Jump Lists Overlay Icons Progress bar icons In this post [...]

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7Jan/110

Extended WPF Toolkit–Release 1.3.0

A new version of the Extended WPF Toolkit has just released.  In this release there are three new controls and updates have been to two existing controls.  Lets take a look at what’s inside this newest release. Updated Controls   The ColorPicker At first glance (see before picture) it looks like it has the functionality [...]

21Dec/100

WPF – dynamically compile and run event handlers within loose XAML using CodeDom

Last week I wrote a blog post showing how you can write inline code in XAML.  When that blog post was published, @ElegantCode tweeted the post on Twitter.  Rob Relyea soon re-tweeted that post with a link to one of his own posts on exploring new techniques for DLR script in XAML which also links [...]

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17Dec/100

WPF – adding thumbnail buttons to Windows 7 Task Bar

Sometimes when a technology has been out awhile, some features are forgotten about.  With the release of WPF 4 came libraries that allow you, as the developer, to do some pretty cool stuff with the Windows 7 Task Bar, such as create the following features: Thumbnail Buttons Jump Lists Overlay Icons Progress bar icons This [...]

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14Dec/100

Yes you can write Inline Code in XAML

A couple of days ago I was spreading the WPF goodness and was talking about how MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) helps promote separation of concerns by removing the need for the code-behind file from the associated XAML file.  After my statement someone replied with the following question, “So why even have it there, can you just delete [...]

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13Dec/100

WPF–Copy UIElement to Clipboard as Multiple Formats

So about a week ago I wrote a post showing how to Copy a WPF UIElement as an Image to the Clipboard.  In reply to that post Rob Relyea made a comment regarding supporting multiple formats on the Clipboard.  What do I mean by formats?  Well, when copying items to the Clipboard, you an specify [...]

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9Dec/100

WPF – Copy UIElement as Image to Clipboard

This is a question to all the WPF developers out there.  Have you ever wanted to take a snapshot of a UIElement in your WPF application, such as a control or a section of a view, and use to generate a preview or copy it to the clipboard so your user can paste it somewhere [...]

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17Nov/100

Extended WPF Toolkit: New DateTimeUpDown control

If you are not familiar with the Extended WPF Toolkit by now, shame on you.  Like most open source projects, the Extended WPF Toolkit is driven by the community, that’s you.  One of the most popular control requests is a DateTime picker.  When this request first came-in I really didn’t know if I was going [...]