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Calcium: A Modular Application Toolset Leveraging PRISM – Part 2

by Daniel Vaughan

Calcium provides much of what one needs to rapidly build a multifaceted and sophisticated modular application. Includes a host of modules and services, and an infrastructure that is ready to use in your next application.

Multiplatform Avalonia .NET Framework Programming Basic Concepts in Easy Samples

by Nick Polyak

This article explains the most important and basic concepts of Avalonia WPF-like multiplatform UI package.

ListBox Styling (Part 3 - Additional Templates) in Expression Blend and Silverlight

by Alan Beasley

Explanation and examples of Additional Templates and Generated Content of a ListBox. Covering Layout, Transitions, and Animation.

Conceptual Children: A powerful new concept in WPF

by Dr. WPF

This article describes a new approach by which an element can remove its visual and logical relationships to its children while maintaining a conceptual parental relationship with those children.

Latest Articles

ChatGPT API in C# WPF / XAML / MVVM

by Peter Sun (247)

Implement ChatGPT API in C# WPF with GPT3.5-turbo

Xamarin Forms - Validations Made Simple

by Chandru BK

This article will assume you have basic knowledge of C# and Xamarin Forms and shows how to implement the Xamarin Form Validations using simple Data Annotations applied on the models.

Convert a Win32 Project to WinUI3 Automatically

by Michael Chourdakis

A set of tools to create a new VCXPROJ file automatically

Customizing ListBox for a Smooth Animated Navigation Bar in WPF

by vickyqu115

Control featuring design and animations specialized for mobile, but can be elegantly and structurally implemented using ListBox and Animation technologies available in WPF.

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How to Control TP-Link Smart Plug HS1XX

27 Dec 2017 by Alberto M.

How to control TP-Link Smart Plug (HS100 or HS110) with C#

Getting Started with MahApps.Metro

16 May 2015 by Mark Heath

Learn how to get started with MahApps.Metro, an open source library for giving your WPF applications a modern look and feel.

How to Debug the Design Time Errors in WPF XAML File?

20 Oct 2015 by Manish Dubeyy

How to debug the design time errors in WPF XAML file?

Using Font Icons

12 Aug 2013 by Le Sourcier

This tip helps in using font icons as ImageSource.

Very Friendly Enum Binding In WPF

11 Jan 2016 by hesido

A super simple method for listing Enum members in WPF using databinding

Yes, You Can Move TFS 2013 WorkItems Between Projects! But, your TFS Warehousing will Break, and Microsoft Support will No Longer Talk to You.

19 Jan 2018 by ergohack

This roguish way of moving a WorkItem, directly 'in-place', through SQL leaves all of the previous data associations intact, but portends issues with future major updates and current TFS Data Warehousing.

WPF DatePicker Background Fix

6 Jun 2012 by Clifford Nelson

A little trick that will more completely fill the DatePicker background from the code-behind.

Generative Art IV: Distribute Points With Poisson

10 Jan 2015 by dietmar schoder

Poisson disc algorithm: fundamental C# classes and methods for the artwork production in the area of generative art.

WPF Controls Color Customization

6 Jul 2017 by Alexander Sharykin

No more Template copies

ChatGPT API in C# WPF / XAML / MVVM

16 Feb 2024 by Peter Sun (247)

Implement ChatGPT API in C# WPF with GPT3.5-turbo

Markup Extension for Generic classes

31 Jan 2015 by Mayur Shah

Markup Extension that allows you to declare Generic classes in Xaml

How to Create and Use Custom Control in UWP

1 Dec 2015 by Umer Qureshi

How to create a Custom Control so it can be used later and how to give access to some of it properties

WPF Behavior to close a Popup with MouseLeave

3 Apr 2018 by Clifford Nelson

Normally a popup will stay open until explicitly closed. The Behavior will close the Popup if the mouse is clicked within or outside the Popup area or leaves the Popup area.

How to Easily Write a User's Guide for Your Application using Different File Extensions

26 May 2018 by Vladan.Obradovic

How to easily write a user's guide for your application using different file extensions

WPF Select All Focus Behavior

20 Jun 2018 by Clifford Nelson

This behavior will select the entire text when a TextBox or PasswordBox gains focus

Data Virtualization using DataGrid

30 Oct 2018 by Carsten Breum

Data Virtualization example with a pagesize and async data request

A post about Silverlight Focusing Issue

22 Feb 2011 by İlkay İlknur

Silverlight Focusing Issue

Splash Screen using ProgressBar on Windows Phone

9 Jul 2012 by Christian Amado

In this tutorial, we will discuss on ProgressBar & Background worker. Follow the step-by-step tutorial to know how to use these clases.

Windows-Phone-7

Pay Attention to SystemTray

2 Apr 2014 by Houssem_Dellai

We'll see how SystemTray properties can help you design nifty apps

String Format ValueConverter

9 Aug 2015 by Clifford Nelson

This tip provides an alternate way to combine data with text in a WPF control using a ValueConverter that could be considered easier.

How to Navigate Among Pages in UWP

1 Dec 2015 by Umer Qureshi

Explains how to navigate among pages with button clicks

Show Gridlines on canvas , With Size Slider ,WPF

29 Jun 2016 by Praveen_Kumar Gupta

with the help of this article developer can add gridlines on canvas , and with slider control resize them easily

Using WPF Behavior to Reduce Loading Time

18 Apr 2018 by Clifford Nelson

I had a situation where a control appearing was significantly affected by the initialization of the UserControls. This behavior fixed my problem.

Designer Debugging in WinRT

9 May 2013 by Vinoth Kumar J

Designer debugging in WinRT

Developing WPF Applications to Choose Best FontFamily and Display String (Text) for UI Elements

25 Sep 2013 by Punamchand Dhuppad

In this tip we will talk about how to apply the same font style to TextBlock and Glyphs controls from code-behind.

Generative Art III: Work With Image Tiles

2 Jan 2015 by dietmar schoder

Image sections and images: fundamental C# classes and methods for the artwork production in the area of generative art.

WPF Listbox and Combobox MVVM "Binding" Enum

6 Jan 2016 by Luis Manuel Prospero Mano Batista

Another simple way to bind one Enumeration to a Combobox or to a Listbox

Undo/Redo Redirection for WPF

6 Apr 2017 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Focused TextBox blocks Undo/Redo invocation of other components, but the problem can be solved comprehensively

ImageWallViewer

29 Dec 2017 by wim4you

Show UniformGrid and scroll through a few thousand images, UI virtualization

WPF ValueConverter to Convert to Correct Type

5 Apr 2018 by Clifford Nelson

Normally, there is no need to ensure that types exactly match when using a Binding. For instance, the Control property double to and int in a ViewModel

Flexible WPF XAML ToggleButton/RadioButton/CheckBox reset behavior

27 Apr 2018 by Clifford Nelson

This is a behavior that that will reset ToggleButton derived controls to false (or a specified default value) when the container's visibility becomes false.

MVVM ICommand, Lambda Expression for CanExecuteChanged

1 Mar 2013 by Yasser Moradi DNP

Parse CanExecute to detect when CanExecuteChanged should be called.

Expression-Trees

Slider Thumb Tooltip

28 Jan 2014 by Borja Prado

How to convert slider thumb tooltip value

Strings To Colours

17 Jun 2014 by cjb110

A String To Brush Converter for WPF/Silverlight

Using Integer Instead of Enum in XAML

26 Sep 2015 by Piyush Manharlal

Using integer instead of Enum for ComboBox and Radio Button in XAML

Difference Between Grid and StackPanel

17 Dec 2015 by Umer Qureshi

A tip explaining the difference between Stackpanel and a Grid layout in WPF

Telerik RadGridView Selected and Hover Row Colors

19 Dec 2015 by Clifford Nelson

It is not straight forward to change the row selected and hover colors on the Telerik RadGridView. This is a ControlTemplate that works, and works with the detail pane.

Microsoft Band- Basic App for Understanding II

28 Feb 2016 by adityasahver

In this article, we will learn how to create an Tile/Page in the MS Band and trigger the details on the associated device

Finger Print Authentication using Xamarin Forms

13 Mar 2018 by Slim Hammami

This is a tutorial which contains the finger print authentication using Xamarin Forms

WPF Behavior to Set Control Value to DefaultValue on Visibility Changed

2 May 2018 by Clifford Nelson

The tip provides a behavior that will set a control to a default value when the Visibility changes

Remove border from right and bottom of WPF full-screen window

28 Feb 2011 by jmix90

Creating a full-screen window in WPF is quite simple, set WindowState to Maximized and WindowStyle to None. However, a border is still visible on the bottom and on the right sides. In this post we'll discover how to remove it.

Different ways to bind a data in Codebind from XAML

7 Jan 2011 by Venkatesh Mookkan

Databinding Concept in WPF

SuspendedButton - How to suspend WPF Button's Click event

5 Oct 2011 by Shmuel Zang

This tip shows how we can extend a Button control to support suspension of its Click event, in order to perform some animations before the Click event is raised.

Tiled Background for Windows Store Applications

25 Mar 2018 by Matej Pavlů

Creating a replacement for missing TileBrush known from WPF.

Preserve the Selected Item of a WPF List Box

1 Aug 2014 by MichaelLPerry

A behavior to attach to a ListBox to keep WPF from clearing the selected item

Unleashing Path List Box | Expression Blend (WPF )

6 Jan 2015 by Saad_Mahmood

Unleashing Path List Box using Expression Blend

Markup Extension for Generic Classes

6 Feb 2015 by Richard Deeming

This is an alternative for "Markup Extension for Generic classes"

Built-in Automatic Sorting for WPF ListView Items

14 Feb 2015 by Dan Maroff

A custom ListView class that uses reflection to sort columns based on the DisplayMemberBinding's bound data type

Remove Default Background Color of ListBox Item on Selection in Windows Universal App

26 Mar 2016 by Sumit Samediya

Here we will learn how to remove default background color of ListBox item on selection in Windows Universal App

Simplifying StyleSelector and TemplateSelector for Xceed AvalonDock

25 Aug 2017 by Cédric Bourgeois

How to make it easier to manage StyleSelector and TemplateSelector with AvalonDock, especially when the selection is based on the ViewModel type only.

[Uwp] Make a Resizable Splitview

27 Sep 2018 by Georgeutc

A very simple Resizable SplitView

A Custom WPF ScrollViewer

7 Dec 2018 by Dirk Bahle

Making better use of the available UI space.

Writing Custom Control with New WPF XAML Designer

9 Feb 2023 by Stanko Milošev

How to either migrate to the new XAML designer extensibility or write WPF custom control extensibility model based on .designtools.dll.

Improved WPF MenuItem Template

31 Aug 2023 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Improvements used to fix an annoying WPF MenuItem defect related to icons

Edit Template or Edit Additional Templates in Visual Studio XAML without all the Bloat

18 Jun 2020 by SoundersFan

How to edit templates in VS XAML without the bloat

Xamarin Forms Integration with Google Admob

24 Jan 2019 by Harshit Gindra

This article with help monetize your Xamarin Forms app using Google Admob. This article shares different implementations for Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android.

Load external images in WPF via XAML ?

19 Apr 2010 by Mohammad Dayyan

Sometimes we need to show an external image directly in WPF.Assume we have a folder that is named images beside of our main's WPF exe file. There is an image in this folder that's named sample.png.Now with the following XAML code, we can show it in WPF directly:

How to draw a two color line in Silverlight

29 Jul 2011 by gsvolt

Draing a two-color line in Silverlight.

Silverlight combobox without items source with a bound selected value

8 Sep 2011 by Ian Landicho

A simple combo box that will have predefined items but the selected value bound to a property from our View Model.

Simplifying MVVM Properties

30 Sep 2013 by N_tro_P

Simplify your MVVM Properties

Accelerometer Sensor in Windows Phone 8

20 Feb 2013 by Pradeep Reddy S

Implementation of Accelerometer in WP8 applications.

A StringFormat Replacement for Windows RT

18 Apr 2013 by Yvan Rodrigues

A simple but effective way for format bound data in XAML with the Windows Runtime

Encypt and decrypt StorageFile in Windows Store apps

30 Apr 2013 by Farhan Ghumra

Encypt and decrypt StorageFile in Windows Store apps.

Passing parameters to Success method in executeQueryAsync in SharePoint

21 Aug 2013 by shahed.sohail

Passing Parameters to Success method in executeQueryAsync.

Connect WPF with Wamp Server MySql

5 Aug 2014 by Anis Derbel

The easy way to connect to Mysql using Wamp server on WPF

ColorPicker In Windows Phone 8

12 Nov 2014 by Shah Ankita

This code sample demonstrates how to set color to any control using colorpicker. For this, you have to create a new Windows phone app.

An Empirical Approach to Data Binding in Universal Windows Applications

24 Sep 2015 by brain2cpu

The way x:Bind is (not) working in universal Windows applications

Advanced WPF TreeView with Multi-Level Binding (Code Behind - No XAML!)

21 Dec 2017 by Peter Sun (247)

Demonstrate how to create WPF TrewView with multiple levels of HierarchicalDataTemplate from C# code-behind without XAML using MVVM for data binding

25 Mar 2018 by Matej Pavlů

Creating a replacement for missing TileBrush known from WPF

How to display data of one column in format of grid in Silverlight

29 Apr 2010 by Grishma Shah

Introduction:...

Remove border from right and bottom of WPF full-screen window

28 Feb 2011 by Anton Lesnichenko

Add AllowsTransparency="True" and there will not be a border.

Custom Text Wrapping in WPF TextBlocks

13 Jul 2012 by Opata Chibueze

This tip demonstrates how to wrap text in WPF - similar to using &shy or

Disable WebView scrolling in Windows Store Apps

31 Jan 2014 by Farhan Ghumra

How to Crop Image into Different Size

5 Aug 2014 by Anis Derbel

you can now crop Image with specified size equally

Working with Accelerometer Windows Phone c#

5 Aug 2014 by Anis Derbel

Link between Accelerometer and composant in xaml

MVVM Light Toolkit and Windows Phone : Bindable AppBar

22 Aug 2014 by Mdimagh Firas

This tip/trick shows you how to add bindable AppBar with MVVM Light Toolkit in Windows Phone 8

Windows-Phone-8

Exception Has Been Thrown by the Target of an Invocation using Visual Studio and TFS

26 Jan 2015 by Divikiran

Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation using Visual Studio and TFS

How to Localize WPF pages

17 Apr 2015 by |\/|ax

Creating Animated Gradient in Windows Store App Without Using ColorAnimation

13 Oct 2015 by Azim Zahir

This tip explains how you can create animated gradients in a Windows store app using DispatcherTimer.

VB.NET, NeoLua and External XAML Implementation

17 Nov 2015 by PyroStrex

Example of loading external scripting and external XAML with VB.NET and NeoLua

WPF Resource Path Problem

4 Jan 2016 by Steve 262877418

Different resource paths using in WPF XAML file

Editable WPF Label Custom User Control

8 Feb 2016 by StormyDev

Simple and clean-cut label that user can edit text of during run-time (by double-clicking) which I wrote because the examples I found were either obsolete or added clutter to the interface.

.NET-Compiler-Platform

Creating a VirtualizingWrapPanel in XAML WinRT

27 Feb 2016 by Gregory Morse

Deriving VirtualizingPanel and OrientedVirtualizingPanel is not possible in WinRT but using some calculation strategies, an efficient emulation is possible

A Foldable Content Control for UWP

8 Jan 2017 by Nuwan Karunarathna

This a foldable content control for UWP platform.

Extending Content/Message Dialog Class in UWP to Avoid Crash

31 Mar 2017 by P_Dash

Showing multiple dialogs concurrently in UWP

Windows-Phone-8

Xamarin Forms: Check and Request for Permissions

11 Jan 2019 by Harshit Gindra

Check and request for Permissions in Xamarin Forms mobile application

How to Auto-generate Multiple Custom Columns in a WPF DataGrid for Same Type Properties

1 Apr 2020 by Vassili Kravtchenko-Berejnoi

A generic workaround for auto-generating multiple custom columns in a WPF DataGrid in case where the data class has multiple properties of the same type

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How to display data of one column in format of grid in Silverlight

30 Apr 2010 by umangsain

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XamlServices class in .Net 4.0

28 Apr 2011 by CDP1802

Serializing and deserializing objects with XamlServices class

Popup MessageBox Using Silverlight4.0

29 Mar 2012 by pritam40

Simple but presentable message boxes for Silverlight developers. Designed for ease of integration with existing projects.

Accessing Data through Web Service in Windows 8 Stores App - VS2012

24 Oct 2012 by Ramanujam Shankar

Show data in grid view control of Windows Stores App using web service or WCF

Windows Phone 7 TextBox style margin issue

19 Mar 2013 by VitusD

Avoid unwanted margin in disabled TextBox.

Windows-Phone-7

Open Chat using Azure and Windows RT

16 Jan 2013 by Houssem_Dellai

Developing the client and server side for a chat application.

BitmapImageExtension with NetworkCredentials

14 Feb 2013 by Fredrik Zetterlund

BitmapImageExtension with NetworkCredentials.

DataGrid Visual Column Separator

6 Aug 2013 by Ced743

DataGrid column separator

Passing Custom-Properties into Styled/Templated Control with triggers

30 Aug 2013 by ntg123

Simple way to pass custom(Attached) properties into a style-based control-template with triggers

Table with Imbricated ItemsControl in XAML

10 Oct 2013 by Ced743

Imbricated ItemsControl (a list into another list) to make a table

Grouped LongListSelector in Windows Phone 8 Silverlight

21 Dec 2014 by Divesh P

This tip explains how to create LongListSelector with grouping in very simple and easy steps.

Multiple Animations in WPF

30 Mar 2015 by lally727

Running multiple animations in one WPF XAML

Creating an IconBlock in Xaml

11 Jun 2015 by Lance Contreras

Create an easily resusable IconBlock (TextBlock that display's an icon)