Recently, I was asked to tackle down a memory leak problem in WPF application. The problem was so not obvious and so mysterious, that triggered bigger research on a topic.
By Mirek on (tags: Dispatcher, memory leak, STA, thread, WPF, categories: code)If you develop a Windows Presentation Foundation (or UWP or MAUI) application with MvvM pattern and don’t use any framework for that like Prism, you better take a look at what .NET Community Toolkit has prepared for you.
By Mirek on (tags: Community Toolkit, mvvm, .net, WPF, categories: tools, code)Is it possible to change starting point for WPF application, so that we can run some code before even the actual application is created? Keep reading to get know…
By Mirek on (tags: Starting Point, WPF, categories: architecture, code)The Windows Presentation Foundation DataGrid control offers a huge possibilities regarding displaying tabular data. However one functionality I was always missing in data grid was the possibility to fire a command when user clicks a row.
By Mirek on (tags: DataGrid, mvvm, WPF, categories: code)Recently we’ve migrated our projects repository from TFS 2010 to TFS 2017. Unfortunately it soon turned out that WPF projects doesn’t cooperate with new TFS.
By Mirek on (tags: AssemblyVersion, msbuild, resource dictionary, TFS 2017, WPF, XAML, categories: architecture, tools)Today I am going to show you how easy to achieve a pivot scrolling in wpf using scroll viewers and scroll bars.
By Mirek on (tags: pivot grid, WPF, categories: code)Recently I struggled on my user control trying to make the dependency property be updated when I change the source of the binding. That confirmed my belief that WPF does not forgive any single developer’s mistake.
By Mirek on (tags: dependency property, user control, WPF, categories: code)DataGrid control in WPF is a rich table structured control, which is perfect for displaying any kind of data in table like format. The one think about DataGrid it always lack, is a possibility to easily change the order of rows. It is not even about drag and drop of rows and items from and into the DataGrid , but simply rearrange existing rows in DataGrid control. It this post I will present you my solution for this problem, which additionally sticks to MvvM pattern perfectly.
By Mirek on (tags: Attached property, DataGrid, WPF, categories: code)A time ago I wrote about using collection views in WPF to achieve different looks at the same source collection. By creating different instances of ListCollectionView we could have the collection displayed in different sorting, ordering and grouping shape. Unfortunately there is small trap when using collection views.
By Mirek on (tags: CollectionView, memory leak, WPF, categories: code)Recently I found out that my attached property, which I am using to modify the dependency property of one of my controls, causes a memory leak.
By Mirek on (tags: memory leak, WPF, categories: code)