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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
