Until recently, creating a custom window style in Windows Presentation Foundation was quite a challenging task. You had to implement the window’s behavior from scratch. Resizing, moving and all other typically window related functionality had to be reinvented and reimplemented just because you wanted the window header bar to look different.
By Mirek on (tags: style, WindowChrome, WPF, categories: code)WPF has many rich features which facilitates making a great look&feel of the application. Unfortunately many of those features are cumbersome to implement and use when we develop in a Model - View – ViewModel architecture. In this post I will try to make you more familiar with visual states and how can we use them in our MvvM application.
By Mirek on (tags: behaviors, Expression Blend, Visual state, WPF, categories: code)This is a simple trick to handle already handled routed events in WPF application.
By Mirek on (tags: routed events, WPF, categories: code)Where should I store user and application settings in my WPF application? Well, in Settings of course.
By Mirek on (tags: c#, settings, WPF, categories: architecture)Let’s imagine we have a huge collection of some objects (may be our data objects) and we need to filter this collection and display only a part of its elements in different places in our WPF application. Instead of creating many different instances of sub collection we can use the benefits of collection views.
By Mirek on (tags: CollectionView, WPF, categories: code)It was obvious for me that a TabControl in WPF, which is a container for TabItems, has a dependency property indicating the index of current tab.
By Mirek on (tags: TabControl, WPF, categories: code)In this post I will show you the way we can implement a plugin functionality in WPF MvvM application with use of Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF).
By Mirek on (tags: MEF, mvvm, Plugins, WPF, categories: architecture, code)In a previous post I have described hot to utilize a INotifyDataErrorInfo interface. Today I will show you my solution for automated cross-property validation integrated with the ModelValidation base class from previous post.
By Mirek on (tags: CustomValidationAttribute, mvvm, validation, WPF, categories: code)Today I will show you how I utilize the INotifyDataErrorInfo interface to accomplish validation mechanisms in WPF application.
By Mirek on (tags: INotifyDataErrorInfo, mvvm, validation, WPF, categories: code)
The panel which switch its content depending on the value of boolean flag is the topic of this post.
By Mirek on (tags: custom controls, SwithPanel, WPF, categories: code)