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How To Create and Use a Custom Command in WPF
I've got to be honest and admit up front that initially I wasn't completely sold on the idea that WPF Commands are the great leap forward that they are sometimes billed as. OK, so I get that they...
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WPF: Displaying a Master-Detail Collection of In-Memory Objects In a TreeView
IntroductionIn this earlier blog I used an XML file containing nested data items as the data source of a TreeView. In this version I will use a collection of objects as the data source. The details...
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WPF: How to Create a Reversing ProgressBar
In some of my earlier blogs – here, here and here, I looked at some rather colorful, non-rectangular versions of the ProgressBar. Although you probably wouldn't want to use some of those versions...
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WPF: ProgressBar With Marquee Text Display and TemplateBinding
IntroductionIn this blog I want to demonstrate several things. The first is how to reveal a text message in a ProgressBar. This is easy to do and you can get reasonably close to the moving marquee...
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WPF: Using a VirtualizingStackPanel to Improve ComboBox Performance
IntroductionIn this earlier blog, I looked at how to use a ComboBox to display a list of all the system fonts, displaying each font name in its own font style. I mentioned there that fonts are...
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WPF: Using a VirtualizingStackPanel to Improve ComboBox Performance
IntroductionIn this earlier blog, I looked at how to use a ComboBox to display a list of all the system fonts, displaying each font name in its own font style. I mentioned there that fonts are...
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Entity Framework Quickstart Quick Start
I was flitting through various beginner examples on Entity Framework and queries and landed on the MSDN Quickstart here. It works fine and the step by step instructions are clear enough. Although...
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Implementing Edit and Format Features in a WPF RichTextBox
In previous blogs, I looked at how to access a plain text file through a RichTextBox and then how to open and save content in RTF format. In the second blog, I also looked at some core editing...
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Moving From WinForms to WPF
I’ve written lots of blog posts about WPF and in most cases the selection of topics has been a bit random. Essentially, if it interests me at the time I’d write about it. The problem with that...
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WPF: Accessing Resources From An External Project
A friend asked me recently if it was possible to access resources that were created and stored in a separate assembly. Although I was sure it could be done, I’d never tried it, so I was interested in...
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