Articles by jmix90 (Technical Blogs: 26, Tip/Tricks: 6)

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	Serialize DependencyObject: It's easy ! [Technical Blog] 25 Feb 2010 Updated: 25 Feb 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 14,000 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An easy way to perform serialization of these objects
	Sync framework - choose your primary keys type carefully [Technical Blog] 5 Mar 2010 Updated: 5 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.25/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.59 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 25,733 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The Sync Framework is an amazing framework that enables roaming, sharing of data, and taking data offline ! One usage You can imagine is to sync some local clients databases with a big distant one.
	Calculate the Real Difference Between Two Angles, Keeping the Correct Sign [Technical Blog] 19 Feb 2010 Updated: 21 Feb 2010 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.41 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,452 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to calculate the real difference between two angles, keeping the correct sign
	CREATE, LAUNCH and CONTROL a WPF animation FROM CODE [Technical Blog] 19 Feb 2010 Updated: 19 Feb 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,170 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Animate your specific object with WPF animation.
	Use a screenshot of a WPF visual as a texture in Mogre [Technical Blog] 19 Feb 2010 Updated: 19 Feb 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 25,242 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use a screenshot of a WPF elements and put it as a texture on your Mogre object
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Docker	XAML to PNG Converter... [Technical Blog] 19 Feb 2010 Updated: 27 Apr 2010 Rating: 4.60/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.22 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,480 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A post about creating a PNG from an XAML file
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WPF	Binding on a Property which is not a DependencyProperty [Technical Blog] 7 Apr 2010 Updated: 8 Apr 2010 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.29 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 55,291 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A lot of controls expose properties which are not DependencyProperties and then you can’t put a binding on it. On some other cases, you only have a getter as accessor and you can’t put a binding on it too...
	Simple Properties Mapper by Reflection: Stop Copying Manually Each Property of Your Objects ! [Technical Blog] 9 Apr 2010 Updated: 9 Apr 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 17,501 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Simple properties Mapper by reflection: Stop copying manually each property of your objects !
	Execute a Command on a Specified Control When Clicking on a Button [Technical Blog] 16 Jun 2010 Updated: 27 Aug 2010 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.30 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 12,621 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Execute a command on a specified control when clicking on a button
	How to create an animated expander [Technical Blog] 21 Sep 2010 Updated: 21 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.40/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.65 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 36,750 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The expander control can be used in a lot of situations but the one proposed by default is quite "rigid".
	[Performance tips] Use the system shadows instead of your own [Technical Blog] 28 Apr 2010 Updated: 22 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.01 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 20,410 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A fast and easy tip about shadows and performance
	How to create your own control library (how-to + tips) [Technical Blog] 4 Oct 2010 Updated: 4 Oct 2010 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.30 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 18,831 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Reusability and factorizing are maybe the most commons things you want and use when you are developing applications. In WPF it often means creating controls library (i don’t mean UserControl) that will be easy to use in multiple applications.
	MVVM - How to integrate the Office Ribbon respecting the pattern (especially the commands) [Technical Blog] 4 Mar 2010 Updated: 5 Oct 2010 Rating: 4.11/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.20 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 28,190 Bookmarked: 21 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to integrate the Office Ribbon respecting the pattern (especially the commands)
	DependencyProperties or INotifyPropertyChanged ? [Technical Blog] 1 Mar 2010 Updated: 1 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.89 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 64,185 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. When you want to make an object binding-aware you have two choices : implements INotifyPropertyChanged or creates DependencyProperties.
	Binding to the Selected Items of a ListBox (or Another Items Controls) [Technical Blog] 14 Jun 2010 Updated: 14 Jun 2010 Rating: 4.25/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.03 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 38,920 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A problem you often meet when using MVVM is to get the selected items of an items control, especially Listbox
	Use AttachedProperties to Add Behaviors to the Components (Ramora Pattern) [Technical Blog] 19 Feb 2010 Updated: 21 Feb 2010 Rating: 3.67/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.10 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,591 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use AttachedProperties to add behaviors to the components (Ramora pattern)
	MVVM - Creating ViewModel: Wrap your business object (Solution 1 of n) [Technical Blog] 25 Feb 2010 Updated: 25 Feb 2010 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 1.91 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 23,361 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. When you create WPF applications, you may (or you should !) use the M-V-VM pattern and so have to use/create ViewModel.The viewModel job is mainly to expose properties of your businessObjects to your views, ready for binding. Here is a first solution to create ViewModel from your model.
	MVVM - Creating ViewModel : use XAML Power Toys (solution 2 of n). [Technical Blog] 4 Mar 2010 Updated: 7 Mar 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 11,730 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Here is the next episode of our serie MVVM - Creating ViewModel.
	MVVM - Creating ViewModel : create dynamic proxies with Castle (solution 3 of n) [Technical Blog] 12 Mar 2010 Updated: 12 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 2.80 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 21,614 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Here is the next episode of our serie MVVM - Creating ViewModel.
	UserControl/Control : How to Get a Reference to an Element of the Template [Technical Blog] 15 Sep 2010 Updated: 20 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.86 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 20,172 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post, we'll discover how to access the template children by using the FindName method even on UserControl.
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Testing	UIAutomation, Coded UI Tests, AutomationPeer, and WPF/Silverlight Custom Controls [Technical Blog] 23 Mar 2011 Updated: 25 Mar 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 60,987 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post, we will see how to make a custom control fully useable in a Coded UI Tests scenario.
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C#	Use dataBinding and DependencyProperty with a non-WPF or extern object [Technical Blog] 19 Feb 2010 Updated: 19 Feb 2010 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.35 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,460 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Today we are going to learn how we can uses the powerful data binding of WPF even on non-WPF objects.
	M-V-VM: How to keep collections of ViewModel and Model in sync [Technical Blog] 2 Mar 2010 Updated: 2 Mar 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 23,321 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. As pointed out in this post, collections of the ViewModels and the models are not in sync.
	Write Text Inside an Image: Add a Poster to Add it in your Mogre Scene [Technical Blog] 19 Feb 2010 Updated: 19 Feb 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,870 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. To display information in your scene, you can use a billboard represented by the MovableText into (M)ogre but sometimes you just want to put some static text somewhere because it's more readable.
XML	Multi-input: How to Scale Around a Specific Point and Not the Center of the Element [Technical Blog] 19 Feb 2010 Updated: 21 Feb 2010 Rating: 3.67/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.10 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,870 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Multi-input: How to scale around a specific point and not the center of the Element
	How to Create a Handwriting to Text Control (Ink Recognizer) [Technical Blog] 27 Oct 2010 Updated: 27 Oct 2010 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.38 Licence: Ms-PL Views: 30,173 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to create a handwriting to text control (ink recognizer)

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WPF	WPF - Catch Events Even if they are Already Handled [Tip/Trick] 22 Feb 2010 Updated: 24 Feb 2010 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,533 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. As you may actually know WPF introduced the routed events. These last are no more specific to a single control but they are routed inside the tree of your controls. If you want to stop an event, you can mark it as Handled. If so, the routing engine will stop to propage it. In fact this is...
	Freeze brushes directly in the XAML to improve your application's performances [Tip/Trick] 12 Apr 2010 Updated: 12 Apr 2010 Rating: 4.73/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.85 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,281 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. When you read the MSDN guidelines to improce WPF's performances you can find that it's a good idea to freeze Freezable objects.It's a quite easy thing to do via the code but it's quite harder to do it directly in the XAML. In this post we will see how to do so.What are freezable...
	Increase Performances when Using D3DImage in WPF [Tip/Trick] 22 Feb 2010 Updated: 18 Sep 2010 Rating: 3.20/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 1.53 Licence: CPOL Views: 26,790 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Increase Performances when Using D3DImage in WPF
	Remove border from right and bottom of WPF full-screen window [Tip/Trick] 23 Sep 2010 Updated: 28 Feb 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,181 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. 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.
	WPF - catch events even if they are already handled [Tip/Trick] 3 Mar 2010 Updated: 3 Mar 2010 Rating: 3.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 0.90 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,480 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. As you may actually know WPF introduced the routed events. These last are no more specific to a single control but they are routed inside the tree of your controls. If you want to stop an event, you can mark it as Handled. If so, the routing engine will stop to propage it. In fact this is...
	Serialize DependencyObject : it's easy ! [Tip/Trick] 25 Feb 2010 Updated: 25 Feb 2010 Rating: 3.50/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.05 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,810 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. You often read on the web that the DependencyObjects are not marked as serializable and that this is a major drawback of them...But there is a easy way to perform a serialization of these object : use XAMLWriter and XAMLReader :public class MyDependencyObject : DependencyObject{public...

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jmix90

Software Developer http://wpf-france.fr

France (Metropolitan)

Jonathan creates software, mostly with C#,WPF and XAML.

He really likes to works on every Natural User Interfaces(NUI : multitouch, touchless, etc...) issues.

He is awarded Microsoft MVP in the "Client Application Development" section since 2011.

You can check out his WPF/C#/NUI/3D blog http://www.jonathanantoine.com.

He is also the creator of the WPF French community web site : http://wpf-france.fr.

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