I’ve just finished a very large piece of work on one of my products. I desperately needed to have a MacOS offering and so I undertook an exercise of looking.
I’ve just come off the back of migrating to NET5. Yup, attempting, you did read that right. So why am I writing this then? Well there is practically nothing out.
I’ll tell you why UWP is suffering. The UWP flavour of XAML is a mere shadow of WPF and the emulator is shockingly hard to get working or working reliably. .
When targeting the way a ListBoxItems are styled on pre Windows 8 platforms you could easily change with style syntax like: This would essentially override the OS level WPF style.
Just found a nice page on the Microsoft site that details some of the property mappings between WPF and Windows Forms. Might prove useful!! http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms751565.aspx
I’ve been putting this off for a while now but have finally gotten around to checking out Visual Studio 2010. You can get everything you need from this page, Visual.
I’ve just published the second installment of my mini-series of using the Composite Application Library. This article covers dynamic skinning of WPF applications and a few other choice topics! Check.
I’ve just published Part 1 of my introduction to Composite WPF series of articles. The main aim of this article was to provide a really simple illustration of how it.
Just found a link on Sacha Barbers blog linking too some really cool Visual Studio code snippet downloads available from The Blendables folks and DrWPF. Well worth downloading and checking.
I’ve just been having a little play around with some methods for binding UI elements (in this case a ComboBox) to static data sources. As you may know Blend offers.
UPDATED After a lot of poking around on this subject I found a rather neat way of enforcing an application to behave in a single instance manner. I’ve only just.
I’ve just put together a really dirty and VERY simple app that uses the MediaElement class in .NET 3.5 as an example for someone on CodeProject so I thought I’d.
This is a really tough one sometimes. I’ve recently had to debug an error that initially seemed a bit odd. Viewing the main window XAML in Visual Studio 2008 or.
Porting WPF to AvaloniaUI
I’ve just finished a very large piece of work on one of my products. I desperately needed to have a MacOS offering and so I undertook an exercise of looking.
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Migrating Complex WPF Prism Applications to .NET5
I’ve just come off the back of migrating to NET5. Yup, attempting, you did read that right. So why am I writing this then? Well there is practically nothing out.
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Windows 10 UWP – Emulator- The Revenge
I’ll tell you why UWP is suffering. The UWP flavour of XAML is a mere shadow of WPF and the emulator is shockingly hard to get working or working reliably. .
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WPF ListBoxItem Selected Background Highlight in Windows 8
When targeting the way a ListBoxItems are styled on pre Windows 8 platforms you could easily change with style syntax like: This would essentially override the OS level WPF style.
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WPF / WinForms Property Mappings
Just found a nice page on the Microsoft site that details some of the property mappings between WPF and Windows Forms. Might prove useful!! http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms751565.aspx
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Visual Studio 2010 – First Impressions / WPF UI
I’ve been putting this off for a while now but have finally gotten around to checking out Visual Studio 2010. You can get everything you need from this page, Visual.
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Introduction to Composite WPF CAL, Prism: Part 2
I’ve just published the second installment of my mini-series of using the Composite Application Library. This article covers dynamic skinning of WPF applications and a few other choice topics! Check.
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Introduction to Composite WPF (CAL, Prism) Part 1
I’ve just published Part 1 of my introduction to Composite WPF series of articles. The main aim of this article was to provide a really simple illustration of how it.
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WPF Visual Studio Code Snippets
Just found a link on Sacha Barbers blog linking too some really cool Visual Studio code snippet downloads available from The Blendables folks and DrWPF. Well worth downloading and checking.
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WPF UserControl == DataTemplate
Over the weekend I was doing a fair amount of UI stuff on a major project of mine and stumbled across a very cool and neat solution to using data.
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XAML, Blend & Binding to Static Data Sources
I’ve just been having a little play around with some methods for binding UI elements (in this case a ComboBox) to static data sources. As you may know Blend offers.
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WPF Single Instance Application
UPDATED After a lot of poking around on this subject I found a rather neat way of enforcing an application to behave in a single instance manner. I’ve only just.
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Using MediaElement
I’ve just put together a really dirty and VERY simple app that uses the MediaElement class in .NET 3.5 as an example for someone on CodeProject so I thought I’d.
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Debugging XAML
This is a really tough one sometimes. I’ve recently had to debug an error that initially seemed a bit odd. Viewing the main window XAML in Visual Studio 2008 or.
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