Styling A ScrollViewer/Scrollbar In WPF [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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A while back I was looking at the Infragistics WPf showcase,Tangerine and I was quite jealous about the scrollbars that they managed to use. I mean styling a Button is one thing, but the ScrollBar is made of lost of nasty different control parts, (Part_XXX elements). Incidently I wrote an article ab
WPF Flow Document For Beginners [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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As part of an article that I am creating for www.codeproject.com I decided to look into using the System.Windows.Documents namespace and have a look at seeing if I could make a semi-cool’ish looking document.Now when you use FlowDocuments, there are several container WPF container controls wh
Viewport2DVisual3D [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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A little while ago I wrote an article for www.codeproject.com about using 3D meshes in WPF that were hosting 2d controls, such as Grids, Lists, and User controls. The article which can be found right here if you are interested.The problem with the way that I did things in that article was that I us
WPF : Circular Progress Bar [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 22 Jun 2009
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Ever wanted a slightly different progress bar from the standard WPF Progress bar which looks like the following (IsIndeterminate is like the WinForms Marquee enum value) : 1: <ProgressBar VerticalAlignment="Top" 2: Height="22" IsIndeterminate="True"/&
WPF : Binding to global App properties [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 9 Apr 2009
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I was working on something for an upcoming article that I am writing where I am messing around with 3D, and I was having a small issue with a VisualBrush (something to do with Freezable, I never did quite figure it out and came up with a better solution), but along the way of trying [...]
Custom Tab Style [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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A little while ago I mentioned about how important I thought it was to create a brand, and I showed you that you can create some interesting looking controls by Templating/Styling the standard System.Windows controls to create a brand.I also showed you a ScrollViewer and a Tab control which I had a
Creating Custom Panels In WPF [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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WPF has a number of layout Panels that you could use straight out the box, there isWrapPanelStackPanelGridCanvasDockPanelAll of which are great, but occasionally you want something a little bit special. Whilst its probably true that you make most creations using a combination of the existing
Writing Custom LINQ Extension Methods [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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Microsoft have done a great job with LINQ IMHO. However there are times when it might be handy to create your own LINQ extension methods. LINQ extension methods can be applied to any type provided that the source is of type IEnumerable<T>, so thats really the only requirement.So how do we w
WPF GlassEffect For Non Vista OS [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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For those of us fortunate enough to own Windows Vista we can now see transparent windows that show the content behind our window through a glass window. This is down to the Desktop Windows Manager ability to extend the glass effect into the client area. This is however only possible on Windows Vista
Selector DoubleClick Behaviour calling ViewModel ICommand [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 8 Sep 2009
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The other day I was at work and needed to use a WPF ListView (Selector) to call a ICommand in a ViewModel. Here is what I did.
WPF Localization [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 11 Sep 2009
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recently at work I was asked to look into Localization techniques when working with WPF/XAML. There are some excellent sources around that cover the various different techniques such asthis excellent article which outlines the following techniquesUsing LocbamlLocbaml is a localization tool that M
RESTful WCF Part 2 of n [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 9 Apr 2009
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A while back (can’t remember exactly when) I started saying I was going to write a bit about RESTFul WCF, you can see my 1st post at http://sachabarber.net/?p=460. In that post I mentioned that I would probably do the following:The schedule of posts is probably going to be something like this
MVVM Mediator Pattern [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 9 Apr 2009
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About 1 year ago a good friend of mine Marlon Grech wrote a lovely article on MVC + M. You can read all about Marlons great article over at http://marlongrech.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/more-than-just-mvc-for-wpf/ Essentially what Marlon did was create a message system to allow disparate MVC c
RESTful WCF Part 1 of n [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 9 Apr 2009
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Lately I have been neglecting my coding duties a bit in order to go out and get drunk actually. Which I have become a bit tired of now, so I am back onto the code, which is a good place.Now I am in the process of creating another article, and though I can not reveal [...]
Alternative Item Backgrounds The .NET 3.5 SP1 Way [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 9 Apr 2009
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The .NET 3.5 SP1 is full of tricks, just today I found a new property called AlternationCount which is available on all the ItemControl controls such as ItemControl, ListBox etc etc.This simply property can be used to provide some sort of alternative look based on the current value of the Alternati
A Little Chat About Code Sensible Code Generation [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 9 Apr 2009
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At work we all try and do our best to be productive. And as software developers we all probably have to author classes, that follow a familiar pattern. So if like me you are looking to work smart, you will undoubtedly look into code that writes code.This is good in my opinion, code generation can [
WPF : Dynamic Search Driven List Results [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 9 Apr 2009
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At work at the moment I am working on a way way cool customisable search that basically allows user to pick source entities and related entities and then pick what fields they would like to show, this is similar to Microsoft’s CRM Dynamics product, which allows very very sophisticated searches
Scrollable Friction Canvas For Silverlight [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 9 Apr 2009
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A while back I published a post about creating a friction enabled scrolling canvas in WPF (the old post can be found at http://sachabarber.net/?p=225), which I thought was way cool. It turns out that I was not the only one that thought this, and one of my WPF Buddies and fellow WPF Disciples Jeremia
WPF : Blend 3 Interactions / Behaviours [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 20 Apr 2009
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As part of the new Blend3 release, there is a new Dll called "Microsoft.Expression.Interactivity.dll". This Dll is a pretty cool thing, as it formalises a pattern that many WPF developers have probably already used, in their own manner. It basically formalises the "Attached Behaviour
How To Create A WCF Client Proxy Without Having a Deployed WCF Service [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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At work we are currently using a very very Agile process, which involves 1/4 hourly builds, which was all going brilliantly with a WPF solution and some Mocks and some NUnit test projects. Then we got to the point where we had to start building our WCF service and have the WPF project obtain a [...]
Calling Method Asynchronously With A Timeout [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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As part of an ongoing project I am just about to finish, I had a need to use a 3rd party web service. Now I am quite an cautious sort of chap when it comes to using web services. So I generally try and ensure that I try and make my code as robust as [...]
Loading Assemblies in Separate Directories Into a New AppDomain [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 12 Sep 2009
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As some of you may know I have been working on a code generator for my Cinch MVVM framework, which I am pleased to say I am nearly done with. The last stumbling block has been that I need to extract a bunch of Namespaces from Assemblies that the main code referenced, which I want [...]
ThreadSafeObservableCollection [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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As part of an ongoing article I am just about to finish, I needed a thread safe ObservableCollection<T>. Now the native .NET framework doesn’t have one of those, but luckily it supplies you with the right job to create one using some of the Threading APIs.Here is what I came up with.
T4 Template Goodness [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 2 Nov 2009
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I must admit I kinda missed the boat with T4 templates and what was capable of them, which annoys me, so I set out to try and have a look at them the other day, but low and behold Karl Shifflett has beaten me to it.
Useful WPF Threading Extension Method [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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If you are working with WinForms or WPF you will more than likely run into some long running operation that you would like to run in a new thread. A novice may actually try and create a new Thread, which is ok, but that means you are responsible for the entire lifecycle of your new [...]
Restyling WPF ListView Header [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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Of late I have been working with Net Advantage for WPF by Infragistics, but today we didn’t really need the fully functionality of a DataGrid and needed a rather lighter weight component (basically simply sorting list, no paging, no grouping…just a list), so I turned my attention back to
Generic Support In XAML [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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I have worked with XAML/WPF for a while now, but it wasn’t until recently I thought about generic support in XAML. I had no idea if it was possible, so I decided to have a quick look into this.Luckily the WPF team thought about this and do actually enable WPF developers the correct mechanisms
A little var love [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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As we all know one of the things that LINQ gives us is anonymous types that can be used by using the selection query operator, such as 1: var x = new { DateNow = DateTime.Now }; Which will give us an anonymous type with a single DateTime property called "DateNow", which i
How To Bind To Generic Method In XAML [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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As some of you that have worked with XAML and Generics may know, there is currently no support for Generics in XAML (that is no support for direct binding of methods that use generics).So consider this problemThat I have various bits of static data that are used through out the system, that are he
NUnit STA Threads & Testing WPF [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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During the course of the WPF project we are working on at work, we decided to go down the Agile/XP/TDD/Mocks/Continuous Integration route, which means Unit tests, lots of them.We are using NUnit, which I really like, but we are also using WPF, we are obviously using the latest/greatest patterns AKA
xamDataGrid RecordsFound Adorner [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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At work we are using the Infragistics .NET Advantage For WPF, one control of which is the xamDataGrid. We had a small requirement that was to show a label over the grid whenever no records were obtained for the xamDataGrid.DataSource.Now I could have tackled this in a simple manner where I placed t
Lookless Controls / Themes [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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One of the great things about WPF is that it separates the functionality of a control from the way it looks, this has become known as “lookless controls”. Which is great, but how can we ensure that our custom controls behave and also have a default look in the first place. This mini arti
.NET 3.5 SP1 StringFormat Binding Property Weirdness (A Rant) [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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There are some great things in the .NET 3.5 SP1 for sure, one of them is very useful which is the new StringFormat Binding property, which means that you do not need to write ValueConverters any more to create a formatted value for the Binding. I really like this little addition to WPF. The o
Reading Feeds with XLINQ [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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I have done a number of projects that all parse RSS Feeds using XLINQ. Which in itself is awesome, and much easier than using old XML techniques. Where I would so something like 1: public static List<PhotoInfo> LoadLatestPictures() 2: { 3: try 4: [...]
A Moan About ImageBrush In WPF [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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I am working on a 3D article in WPF, and I wanted to use an ImageBrush but was having some issues with it, so I decided to split this out into a small test app.I had the following setupAnd I simply wanted to test this out by creating an ImageBrush that I could use to [...]
Dragging Element In A Canvas [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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You know when there is something you have done a million times, but for the life of you, you just can’t seem to be able to remember how to do it. Well responding to mouse movements, is my bug bear.Today I had to drag an element in a container in WPF, and try as I [...]
Creating A Scrollable Control Surface In WPF [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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Have you ever had a requirement that called for the user to be able to scroll around a large object, such as a diagram. Well I have, and I have just started working on a hobby project where I need just such a feature. We probably all know that WPF has a ScrollViewer control which [...]
WPF : Binding to individual collection items (but not in a ItemsControl) [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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Well I had a great day yesterday, and quite a surprising one, I had an issue with an idea I was working on, so naturally I turned to Josh Smith.And guess what I, yes me the mere mortal managed to teach Josh something about WPF…Ha Ha, check that.So here is what I taught Josh…..(still ca
Cool Database Tool [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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For the last 2 months Jan/Feb 2008, I have won the C# article of the month at codeproject, and as such, I receive a lot of free software. Which I normally don’t ever look at. The reason for this is simple. I write articles to share with people, so these free bits of software really [...]
All New .NET 3.5 3D Elements [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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I have started looking at 3D again in WPF. I have in the past blogged about the Viewport2DVisual3D 3D WPF element. Well for what I am working on I didn’t need to be able to put 2D interactive elements on a 3D surface, but I did want the 3D object to able to respond to [...]
Explicitly Updating And Validating Databindings In WPF [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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The other day I was working on something for a Codeproject article, where I needed to bind part of my UI to an underlying data object. I want to use all the good validation thing such as a Validation Style to use for my TextBox, and also the use of the new .NET 3.5 interface [...]
A WPF GiftWorse (AKA Xceed DataGrid for WPF) [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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Now some time ago I wrote an article at Codeproject that was a simple contact keeper which used LINQ / XLINQ and one of its core requirements was an editable datagrid.The article was published at Codeproject and can be found right here.Those that use WPF will know that there is NO native control w
Winforms / WPF Interop [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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In this blog entry I will discuss what you need to do to successfully interop Winforms with a WPF application and vice versaIn order to evaluate these 2 different interop methods, 2 demo projects have been created which carry out the functionality shown below :.NET Winforms userControl within a .
Consistent Window Look & Feel [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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As part of a beginners WPF series (Beginners WPF series) that I am writing at codeproject, I just start to write an article on DependancyProperties. As part of that, I started to write a bunch of demo projects to illustrate the joy of DependancyProperties to people. As a side effect, I had to think
How to stream XLINQ [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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From time to time when you are using XLINQ to query XML data, you may find that you are dealing with a very large XML file. Loading a very large XML file using the standard XLINQ Load() method may not be appropraite due to the size of the XML file. Instead some sort of streaming [...]
SQL Server CLR Functions [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 17 Jun 2009
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Today we had a requirement to do some pretty strange stuff in SQL which required us to call an encryption library in SQL server. This is something I had not done before, so I thought I would blog about it.There are several steps involved.1. Create the CLR Dll for the SQL function to use, and [...]
WPF : Tube Planner Using A Guided Search [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 11 Nov 2009
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I recently came back from holiday and decided I needed to ease myself back into work gradually.
For those that don’t know I studied AI as part of my degree and we had to do a search of a cut down version of the London underground for one of our many assignments. At the time I [...]
WPF : A True WPF Browser Control That Can Bend It Like Beckham [Technical Blog]
Last Updated: 18 Nov 2009
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A while ago I wanted to use the new .NET 3.5 SP1 WebBrowser control is a small demo WPF app that I was using to display streamed YouTube videos. And guess what, I was way disappointed the supposedly new rad control, was a con and it was actually no better than using a WPF Frame [...]
