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Introduction to D3DImage

by Dr. WPF

.NET 3.5 SP1 is here! It's time to break out your DirectX skills. This article provides the information necessary to get started using a new DirectX interop feature in WPF called D3DImage.

Calcium: A Modular Application Toolset Leveraging PRISM – Part 2

by Daniel Vaughan

Calcium provides much of what one needs to rapidly build a multifaceted and sophisticated modular application. Includes a host of modules and services, and an infrastructure that is ready to use in your next application.

WPF 3D FlipPanel

by Fredrik Bornander

WPF Implementation of the spinning panel frequently used on the iPhone

WPF: If Carlsberg did MVVM Frameworks: Part 6 of n

by Sacha Barber

It would probably be like Cinch, an MVVM framework for WPF.

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WPF: DataGrid Filterable, Multi Language

by Macabies Gilles

An easy-to-use filterable, multilingual custom DataGrid control for managing and filtering data for your WPF applications

OpenGL and WPF: Integrating an OpenGL Window inside a WPF Window

by gabriel4sonic

Shows how to use OpenGL in a .NET WPF application by directly incorporating an OpenGL window as a child of the main WPF window, making it behave more like a control

Part 2 of German Cards Game 'Schafkopf'

by Jo_vb.net

Part 2 of my article about 'Schafkopf' introduces Automated Bidding

ChatGPT API in C# WPF / XAML / MVVM

by Peter Sun (247)

Implement ChatGPT API in C# WPF with GPT3.5-turbo

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WPF

Bing Maps Silverlight Control Integration with SharePoint 2010 – Integration of Silverlight 4 with SharePoint 2010

19 Jul 2010 by Abhijit Jana

A demo of how to integrate a Silverlight Application with SharePoint 2010

Silverlight Task Control For SharePoint 2010 – Example of High Touch Integration

11 Oct 2010 by Abhijit Jana

SharePoint 2010 supports fully integration with Silverlight application either of Silverlight In Browser or as a Silverlight OOB ( Out Of Browser) aplications.

Unhandled Exception Handler For WPF Applications

30 Jun 2010 by Abhishek Sur

The article will demonstrate how you could handle Unhandled Exceptions from both UI and NonUI threads for your WPF application.

How to Render Bitmap or to Print a Visual in WPF

19 Aug 2010 by Abhishek Sur

The article shows how you could use RenderTargetBitmap to render a visual into BitmapSource and convert the same into actual image.

Working with ICollectionViewSource in WPF

12 Jan 2018 by Abhishek Sur

Working with ICollectionViewSource in WPF

Taskbar with Window Maximized and WindowState to None in WPF

7 Sep 2010 by Abhishek Sur

Taskbar with Window Maximized and WindowState to None in WPF

RegisterName for StoryBoards in WPF (NameScopes)

16 Mar 2011 by Abhishek Sur

RegisterName for StoryBoards in WPF (NameScopes)

Deal with Performance in WPF applications

12 Mar 2011 by Abhishek Sur

Deal with Performance in WPF applications

Creating Powerpoint Table using ‘OpenXML’ with XAML Applications

18 Oct 2014 by adityaswami89

A generic way of adding a table to Powerpoint using OpenXML

Unit of Work Design Pattern with Repository and Session

19 Oct 2014 by adityaswami89

This article will guide you if you want to create your own custom ORM or a wrapper over the ORM. This is only for demo towards the Unit of work pattern with Repository and a singleton Session class.

IDataErrorInfo with Fluent Validation

9 Dec 2014 by adityaswami89

Article on Validation in XAML applications with Fluent technique

Massively Parallel RNG using CUDA C, Thrust and C#

22 Sep 2011 by Adnan Boz

Massively Parallel Random Nunber Generation using CUDA C, Thrust and C#

Closable TabItem in WPF

10 Nov 2011 by Adrian Alexander

The included ClosableTabItem derives from TabItem and provides the functionality you need to easily add close buttons to your program's tabs.

Top 5 Pieces of Advice for Users of Microsoft Cognitive Services

12 Mar 2017 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This is a small post, containing a few suggestions for users of Microsoft Cognitive Services.

WPF Default Binding Format Culture

20 Aug 2012 by Andrei Ion Rînea

WPF Default Binding Format Culture

WPF: Animate Visibility Property - Update

13 Apr 2010 by Arik Poznanski

Back in this post I showed you how you can easily add a fade-in / fade-out effect to a UIElement that changes its Visibility property, using a simple attached property.Some people encountered a problem using this property when they bind the UIElement to a model which initially hides the control.

WPF Single Instance Application

28 May 2010 by Arik Poznanski

How to enforce that your WPF application has only one instance

WPF Inside Out: Dispatcher

15 Sep 2010 by Arik Poznanski

In this post, we’ll see a few interesting things about WPF’s Dispatcher class.

No More Magic Strings! Presenting: @string.of

23 Nov 2010 by Arik Poznanski

Implementing a "stringof" operator using expression trees

Order in Chaos: Dependency Property Value Resolution

27 Dec 2010 by Arik Poznanski

Order in Chaos: Dependency Property Value Resolution

A Customizable WPF MessageBox

31 May 2011 by Arik Poznanski

A Customizable WPF MessageBox

Page Transition Control for WPF

19 May 2011 by Aron Weiler

Like the title says... a simple (very simple) page transition control for WPF

Creating a WPF Frame Inside of a Window with AllowsTransparency Set to True

19 May 2011 by Aron Weiler

How to create a WPF frame inside of a window with AllowsTransparency set to true

Popup WPF Image with Drop Shadow

20 May 2011 by Aron Weiler

Make any image in WPF pop up and hit you in the face!

Implementing INotifyPropertyChanged

17 Mar 2010 by Arun Jacob

This article shows how to implement INotifyPropertyChanged.

Building a docking window management solution in WPF

27 Dec 2010 by Ashish Kaila

How to build a docking window management solution in WPF

Create Custom Windows in WPF with Ease

28 Dec 2010 by Ashish Kaila

How to create custom Windows in WPF with ease

My Favorite WPF Book of All Times–WPF Control Development Unleashed

31 Oct 2011 by Ashish Kaila

WPF Control Development Unleashed - my favorite WPF book of all times

Introducing MixModes Synergy 2010

31 Oct 2011 by Ashish Kaila

Introducing MixModes Synergy 2010

Power of Templates in Control Development Within Windows Presentation Foundation

31 Oct 2011 by Ashish Kaila

In this tutorial, I will take a practical example of a card game and illustrate how to model a playing card in WPF and define templates for defining visual aspect of the card as per the sign and the value of the card.

Localization Made Easy In WPF

31 Oct 2011 by Ashish Kaila

Localization in WPF applications

WPF Tips and Facts

31 Oct 2011 by Ashish Kaila

Some useful WPF tips.

How to Create Shaped or Irregular Window in WPF

23 Jan 2012 by Ayobami Adewole

How to create shaped or irregular window in WPF

MVVMLight Using Two Views

16 Oct 2012 by Barry Lapthorn

How to create an MVVM application using MVVM Light with multiple views in one window

Using CSS Selectors for Styling in WPF

17 May 2009 by Colin Eberhardt

This technical blog post details a novel technique for leveraging the power of CSS selectors within WPF.

Dependency Property Performance and Lissajous Figures

2 Jun 2009 by Colin Eberhardt

A simple lesson regarding the speed of dependency properties ... and a funky Oscilloscope!

Modal dialogs in cross-platform WPF/Silverlight applications

18 Jun 2010 by Colin Eberhardt

This blog post looks at the problem of showing modal dialog windows in applications that target both the Silverlight and WPF platforms. A solution is provided which allows modal dialogs to be written that work well for both technologies.

A Universal Value Converter for WPF

9 Jul 2010 by Colin Eberhardt

A simple IValueConverter implementation that makes use of the framework type converters in order to convert between a large range of source / target types

Automatically Showing ToolTips on a Trimmed TextBlock (Silverlight + WPF)

24 May 2011 by Colin Eberhardt

How to automatically show ToolTips on a trimmed TextBlock (Silverlight + WPF)

A Simple Pattern for Creating Re-useable UserControls in WPF / Silverlight

7 Feb 2012 by Colin Eberhardt

This blog post provides step-by-step instructions for creating a user control, which exposes bindable properties, in WPF and Silverlight. The post covers dependency properties, and how to manage DataContext inheritance.

Everything You Wanted to Know About databinding in WPF, Silverlight, and WP7 (Part One)

26 Apr 2012 by Colin Eberhardt

Databinding is a fundamental part of the WPF, Silverlight, and the Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 frameworks. It is a powerful concept that once mastered allows you to write concise and elegant code.

Windows-Phone-7

If Behaviors Complete MVVM, Then?

29 Dec 2013 by comiscience

Sometimes we need to have an independent View-ViewModel part which divides a part of the work to an independent module. Why do we do this?

Improve WPF performance with RenderOptions

11 Apr 2014 by comiscience

My original article link is here: http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/752333/Improve-WPF-performance-with-RenderOptions Introduction Too many articles have been presented on how to improve WPF performance with several global methods.

Compile-Time Validation of Composite Object Data Binding Expressions

7 Nov 2009 by Daniel Vaughan

Prompted by a recent comment on the T4 Metadata Generation template article, which I released some weeks ago, I have implemented a new mechanism for concatenating property paths. This allows compile time validation of properties that exist on composite or nested members.

Knockout Style Observables in XAML

17 Jul 2012 by Daniel Vaughan

Implementing field level change notification in WPF, and how a Lambda Expression can be used to specify a composite property that raises change notifications automatically whenever an associated property changes.

Enforcing Single Instance WPF Applications

1 Aug 2010 by Daniel Vaughan

How to enforce single instance WPF applications

Changing the Caret Colour in WPF

7 Apr 2009 by Derek Lakin

Changing the Caret Colour in WPF

Creating a Custom View Mode that Supports a Template Selector

14 Apr 2010 by Derek Lakin

Creating a Custom View Mode that Supports a Template Selector

Creating a Custom Window Style

6 Apr 2009 by Derek Lakin

I'll show you how to implement a custom Style by implementing a custom message box.

Application.DoEvents in WPF

20 Oct 2011 by Derek Lakin

Implementing Application.DoEvents in WPF.

WPF Master Details MVVM Application

13 Jan 2018 by DevLake

WPF Master Details MVVM Application

Developing Resolution-Independent Applications in WPF

13 Mar 2015 by DotNetForAll

How to develop resolution independent applications in WPF

Understanding MeasureOverride and ArrangeOverride

29 Sep 2015 by DotNetForAll

The article will take you through the layout process in WPF.

WPF Drag and Drop using Behavior

11 Nov 2020 by DotNetLead.com

Drag and drop behaviour in WPF

Global Exceptions Handling in WPF

2 Apr 2016 by EngineerSpock

Global exceptions handling in WPF

Logging with Dynamic Objects in .NET 4.0 (part 2-n) - User Interaction Logging

10 Jan 2011 by erik_nl

Logging with dynamic objects in .NET 4.0 (part 2-n) - user interaction logging

Building a control template/style for the tabControl to clone the office 2010 ribbon File look

8 Feb 2011 by erik_nl

Building a control template/style for the tabControl to clone the office 2010 ribbon File look

AvalonDock and Caliburn Micro Screen Conductor

22 Nov 2011 by Felice Pollano

Using AvalonDock and Caliburn Micro Screen Conductor together

Compiling Multiple Projects into a Single EXE File in WPF

30 Nov 2011 by Gilly Barr

How to compile multiple projects into a single EXE file in WPF

WPF Metro Window

11 Jun 2012 by gnikolaropoulos

How to build a sample window (no resizing) with WPF which will look like Metro.

WPF TabControl Focus Behavior With Invisible Tabs (MVVM)

29 Jan 2017 by HeWillem

How to solve the TabControl focus behavior with invisible tabs

Parse JSON to C# in WinRT, Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone

5 Apr 2013 by Irina Pykhova

How to parse JSON to C# in WinRT, Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone.

WPF: Context Menu on List Item

12 May 2010 by Ivan Krivyakov

WPF: Context Menu on List Item

Some anti-patterns I am experiencing first hand

25 Oct 2010 by Ivan Krivyakov

Some anti-patterns I am experiencing first hand

WPF: Passing Data to Sub-Views via DataContext Causes Trouble

16 Dec 2010 by Ivan Krivyakov

WPF: Passing Data to Sub-Views via DataContext Causes Trouble

If Your Custom WPF Control Just Would Not Show Up

27 Dec 2010 by Ivan Krivyakov

If your custom WPF control just would not show up

WPF Grid: Showing Tooltip over Empty Space

28 Dec 2010 by Ivan Krivyakov

WPF Grid: Showing Tooltip over Empty Space

18 Apr 2011 by Ivan Krivyakov

WPF Bindings

BackgroundWorker and UI Threads

27 Jul 2011 by Ivan Krivyakov

BackgroundWorker and UI threads

Binding Does Not a Dependency Property Make

3 Sep 2012 by Ivan Krivyakov

This simple trick stops the binding gremlins on their tracks, as only a dependency property can be their target.

WPF: Beware of Zombie Animations Freezing Your Properties

10 Sep 2012 by Ivan Krivyakov

Preventing zombie animations from freezing your properties

In GAC we Trust

29 Nov 2012 by Ivan Krivyakov

In GAC we trust

WPF User Controls: Do Not Use Merged Dictionaries for Shared Resources

25 Nov 2014 by Ivan Krivyakov

New instance of a merged dictionary will be created for every user control. This can (and does) lead to increased loading time and memory footprint.

Local Image Caching with Custom Image Control in WPF

14 Nov 2012 by Ivan Leonenko

Local image caching with custom control in WPF

XAML to PNG Converter...

27 Apr 2010 by jmix90

A post about creating a PNG from an XAML file

Use AttachedProperties to Add Behaviors to the Components (Ramora Pattern)

21 Feb 2010 by jmix90

How to use AttachedProperties to add behaviors to the components (Ramora pattern)

MVVM - Creating ViewModel: Wrap your business object (Solution 1 of n)

25 Feb 2010 by jmix90

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.

DependencyProperties or INotifyPropertyChanged ?

1 Mar 2010 by jmix90

When you want to make an object binding-aware you have two choices : implements INotifyPropertyChanged or creates DependencyProperties.

MVVM - How to integrate the Office Ribbon respecting the pattern (especially the commands)

5 Oct 2010 by jmix90

How to integrate the Office Ribbon respecting the pattern (especially the commands)

MVVM - Creating ViewModel : use XAML Power Toys (solution 2 of n).

7 Mar 2010 by jmix90

Here is the next episode of our serie MVVM - Creating ViewModel.

MVVM - Creating ViewModel : create dynamic proxies with Castle (solution 3 of n)

12 Mar 2010 by jmix90

Here is the next episode of our serie MVVM - Creating ViewModel.

Binding on a Property which is not a DependencyProperty

8 Apr 2010 by jmix90

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 !

9 Apr 2010 by jmix90

Simple properties Mapper by reflection: Stop copying manually each property of your objects !

[Performance tips] Use the system shadows instead of your own

22 Sep 2010 by jmix90

A fast and easy tip about shadows and performance

Binding to the Selected Items of a ListBox (or Another Items Controls)

14 Jun 2010 by jmix90

A problem you often meet when using MVVM is to get the selected items of an items control, especially Listbox

Execute a Command on a Specified Control When Clicking on a Button

27 Aug 2010 by jmix90

Execute a command on a specified control when clicking on a button

UserControl/Control : How to Get a Reference to an Element of the Template

20 Sep 2010 by jmix90

In this post, we'll discover how to access the template children by using the FindName method even on UserControl.

How to create an animated expander

21 Sep 2010 by jmix90

The expander control can be used in a lot of situations but the one proposed by default is quite "rigid".

How to create your own control library (how-to + tips)

4 Oct 2010 by jmix90

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.

UIAutomation, Coded UI Tests, AutomationPeer, and WPF/Silverlight Custom Controls

25 Mar 2011 by jmix90

In this post, we will see how to make a custom control fully useable in a Coded UI Tests scenario.

Setting the Display for a WPF Application

2 Oct 2012 by Joel Ivory Johnson

Setting the Display for a WPF Application

VisibilityControl – The Design

15 Oct 2012 by John Michael Hauck

In this post, I briefly discuss the design behind the VisibilityControl.

Camera Face Detection in C# using Emgu CV and WPF

3 Oct 2018 by Junian Triajianto

How to perform Face Detection using your camera / Webcam

DataContext in WPF

30 Jan 2012 by kishore Gaddam

The Binding object needs to get its data from somewhere, and there are a few ways to specify the source of the data like using Source property directly in the Binding, inheriting a DataContext from the nearest element...

WPF/Silverlight Content Ticker/News Ticker Control

20 May 2011 by Koder Hack

The ContentTicker control is a generic control that can be used to slide content.

WinForms.ColorDialog in WPF

7 Feb 2012 by kribo

How to use System.Windows.Forms.ColorDialog in a WPF project

WPF Dynamic TabControl – TabItems

16 Sep 2011 by kribo

WPF dynamic TabControl - TabItems

Ribbon (WPF) – ribbon:RibbonComboBox

16 Sep 2011 by kribo

Ribbon (WPF): ribbon:RibbonComboBox

How can you add "Select All" behaviour for all TextBoxes in your WPF application?

24 Aug 2009 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Add "Select All" behaviour for all TextBoxes in your WPF application

Windows 7 Multitouch Application Development (Part - I)

26 Aug 2009 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this post, I will discuss about developing a simple multitouch application using .NET 3.5 SP1.