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Brandon Cannaday
posted 4 years agoBEGINNEREscaping Curly Braces in XAML
You may have already come across this dilemma - needing to put curly braces in the content of a XAML object - like a TextBlock. In XAML, { and } are used to denote markup extensions, so they can't be used without escaping... -
Brandon Cannaday
posted 5 years agoBEGINNERCreating Buttons with XAML and C#
XAML is a new XML based markup language developed by Microsoft to help developers quickly and easily create user interfaces for their WPF graphics API. This tutorial will demonstrate basic button design and functionality... -
Brandon Cannaday
posted 5 years agoBEGINNERCreating Custom Shapes with XAML
I don't know if you've ever had to draw your own shapes before WPF, but if not, I can tell you it used to be a lot harder. You don't have to override the OnPaint function or listen for the Paint event anymore. You simply... -
Brandon Cannaday
posted 2 years agoBEGINNERWPF Tutorial - Binding without XAML
The introduction of binding and XAML has made creating user interfaces in .NET a much more enjoyable experience compared to previous incarnations. Binding is such an integral part of the WPF experience that most developers... -
Brandon Cannaday
posted 4 years agoBEGINNERXAML Tutorial - Changing Text Color on Mouse Over
I received a comment on an old Silverlight 1.1 post a while ago asking how to change the foreground of text when the user has moused over it. I could have pasted the solution as a reply in the comment, but I felt it... -
Jim Cowart
posted 12 days agoWhen to Go Native, Mobile Web or Cross-Platform/Hybrid
First - Why Mobile Should Be On Your Mind Ever since Luke Wroblewkski coined the phase "mobile first" in 2011, the zeitgeist of software development (at least the vast portions of it that touch mobile devices in some way)... -
Michael Kuehl
posted 4 years agoINTERMEDIATEWPF Tutorial - Command Bindings and Custom Commands
So a few weeks ago, we posted a tutorial on using the built in commands in WPF. Well, today we are going to take a look at the other side of that - creating and using your own custom command and command bindings. First we... -
Michael Kuehl
posted 5 years agoBEGINNERWPF Tutorial - Using WinForms In WPF
So we all know that WPF is awesome, but it is still a very young framework. And so, sometimes, it doesn't have everything that we might want or desire. For instance, there are a number of controls in WinForms that don't... -
Brandon Cannaday
posted 2 years agoBEGINNERWPF DataGrid Tutorial - Row Headers
When using Data Grids to present data, row headers can be valuable additions - especially if the grid contains more columns than can fit on the screen at one time. Row headers don't scroll horizontally with the rest of the... -
Michael Kuehl
posted 4 years agoBEGINNERWPF Tutorial - Fun With Markup Extensions
Markup extensions! A very important aspect of XAML - but while you are using them all the time, you probably pay very little attention to the fact that they are markup extensions. Every time you are using those curly braces... -
Michael Kuehl
posted 4 years agoINTERMEDIATEWPF Tutorial - Using MultiBindings
If you've touched WPF at all, you've probably realized that bindings are an extremely important piece of the framework. We've talked about WPF bindings a number of times (most recently in a post where we talked about... -
Brandon Cannaday
posted 3 years agoBEGINNERWPF Tutorial - Custom Control Templates
Almost every control in WPF uses a control template to define how it displays itself and its contents. In fact, you can override the control template on every built-in control to make it appear and act exactly like you want.... -
Michael Kuehl
posted 4 years agoBEGINNERWPF Tutorial - Using The Built-In Commands
One of the features that WPF has is actually a blast from the past - something that MFC used to have, but was never included in WinForms. This is the concept of Commands. Commands are somewhat like events in that they are... -
Michael Kuehl
posted 4 years agoBEGINNERUsing the WPF Toolkit DataGrid
WPF comes with a large number of built in controls, but from the beginning it has lacked something that many application developers find extremely important - a DataGrid. You can use the `ListView` to create something... -
Brandon Cannaday
posted 2 years agoBEGINNERWPF Tutorial - Forcing a Binding Update
Here's a common scenario - you've got a WPF control bound to a property that doesn't update when the value of the property changes. If the object you have access to doesn't implement INotifyPropertyChanged or use Dependency... -
Michael Kuehl
posted 4 years agoINTERMEDIATEWPF Tutorial - Using The ListView, Part 2 - Sorting
Well, it has been quite a while, but I was reminded by a reader that when I say I'm going to write a part 2 to a tutorial, I probably should actually write a part 2 (and not wait 8 months to do it). Back in February, I... -
Michael Kuehl
posted 4 years agoBEGINNERWPF Tutorial - Using An ItemsPanel
One of the most useful things about WPF is how flexible all of the built in controls are. Don't like how the tabs look on a tab control? Restyle them! Need to have images inside your combo box? Sure, no problem! This... -
Brandon Cannaday
posted 4 years agoBEGINNERWPF Tutorial - Binding Converters
I'm going to come right out and say it, binding converters are one of the nicest pieces of WPF I've run across so far. Simply put, they provide a translation between your binding source and destination. The most common use... -
Brandon Cannaday
posted 3 years agoBEGINNERSilverlight 3 Tutorial - PlaneProjection and Perspective 3D
Silverlight 3 has unleashed a host of new features available to us developers, and one that should provide a new level of user interface design is the introduction of perspective 3D. This features allows us to apply... -
Richard Key
posted 3 years agoBEGINNERSilverlight 3: Effects Baby!
Silverlight 3 is out of beta and here. There are plenty of things that Silverlight 2 had that were really awesome, but what kind of new things does Silverlight 3 bring to the table? Well, after some perusing over at the... -
Michael Kuehl
posted 4 years agoBEGINNERWPF Tutorial - Resizeable Popup
We are going to be taking a look at how to use two WPF controls today, the Popup control and the Thumb. Both are located in the `system.windows.controls.primitives` namespace, because they are used in a number of... -
Brandon Cannaday
posted 4 years agoBEGINNERCreating XML Documents in PHP
There's lots of reasons why you'd want to make XML documents using PHP. Maybe you're writing your own RSS feed or implementing a REST service. Whatever the reason, this tutorial will introduce you to the DOMDocument... -
Michael Kuehl
posted 3 years agoBEGINNERWPF Tutorial - Binding Validation Rules
Bindings are a major part of WPF, and a big part of what makes it quick to create user interfaces in. They can be a little wordy and hard to debug sometimes, but overall they are extremely useful. Hopefully, after today's... -
Michael Kuehl
posted 5 years agoBEGINNERWPF Tutorial - Using The ListView, Part 1
Many of the controls in WPF have a downright dizzying array of capabilities and features, due in large part to the composibility of all the components. The ListView control is a great example of this - the possibilities are... -
Michael Kuehl
posted 4 years agoBEGINNERWPF Snippet - Single Pixel Lines
WPF is great in so many ways - but it can be terribly frustrating in others. One of its greatest assets - the fact that as much as possible all drawing is vector based and done in device independent units - can be a huge...
