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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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.NET DateTime, A Tale About Best Practices and Time Travel

26 Oct 2020 by Matteo Prosperi

In this article, we investigate how DateTime issues are avoided.

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

22 Sep 2010 by jmix90

A fast and easy tip about shadows and performance

[WPF] Highlight ListView Items

2 Aug 2011 by Nadege Rouelle

WPF highlight ListView items

A Customizable WPF MessageBox

31 May 2011 by Arik Poznanski

A Customizable WPF MessageBox

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.

A Simple Way to Make a Custom WPF Message Box

7 Oct 2016 by Steve Naidamast

Here is a simple way to make a custom WPF Message Box

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

A Visual Guide in Designing SharePoint 2010

20 May 2010 by Raymund Macaalay

13 easy steps on how to redesign your Sharepoint 2010 site

Adding Options in Expression Blend extensions

4 Aug 2010 by Timmy Kokke

Often extensions for Expression Blend have to need to store some global variables. Why not use the mechanisms Blend itself offers?

Expression-blend

Application.DoEvents in WPF

20 Oct 2011 by Derek Lakin

Implementing Application.DoEvents in WPF.

AProperties and Bindings outside of WPF Revisited

24 May 2013 by Nick Polyak

AProperties and Bindings outside of WPF Revisited

Asynchronous WPF Command

27 Jan 2012 by qenn

Asynchronous WPF command

Attached and Routed Events Outside of WPF

1 Dec 2013 by Nick Polyak

A series of blog posts regarding implementing WPF concepts outside of WPF

Attached Properties outside of WPF

29 Apr 2013 by Nick Polyak

Re-implementing and improving WPF concepts outside of WPF and in a way that is not necessarily connected to GUI development.

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)

Automating Graphic Design with WPF

26 Oct 2020 by Matteo Prosperi

This post is the the second in a short series investigating somewhat exotic parts of .NET.

AvalonDock and Caliburn Micro Screen Conductor

22 Nov 2011 by Felice Pollano

Using AvalonDock and Caliburn Micro Screen Conductor together

Azure: Upload and Stream Video Content to WPF from Blob Storage

15 Jun 2015 by Sacha Barber

Azure: how to upload and stream video content to WPF from blob storage

BackgroundWorker and UI Threads

27 Jul 2011 by Ivan Krivyakov

BackgroundWorker and UI threads

Bind Markup Extension

25 Nov 2013 by Nick Polyak

I continue a series of blog posts about implementing WPF concepts outside of WPF.

Binding and styling text to a RichTextBox in WPF

20 Jan 2011 by Leom Burke

Binding and styling text to a RichTextBox in WPF

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.

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...

Binding to a single object

16 Apr 2009 by Pete O'Hanlon

A sample of the WPF databinding infrastructure.

Binding To Nullable Enums

26 Jan 2015 by Sacha Barber

A short post about how you can easily bind to nullable enums value in WPF

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

Binding without WPF

29 Apr 2013 by Nick Polyak

Here we are going to talk about the binding concept and how it can be re-implemented outside of WPF without being tied to the visual libraries or the UI threads.

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

Build A Font Viewer Application in WPF Without Writing Any C# Code

25 Jul 2014 by Nikola Breznjak

How to build a font viewer application in WPF without writing any C# code

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

Building a docking window management solution in WPF

27 Dec 2010 by Ashish Kaila

How to build a docking window management solution in WPF

Building a Metro UI with WPF

5 Jun 2012 by Nikos Baxevanis

How to build a Metro UI with WPF?

Building OpenPOS: Part 9 – Settings and Notifications

24 May 2010 by rudigrobler

Building OpenPOS – Settings and Notifications

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

Change and Deleted Item Tracking within the Infragistics DataGrid

4 Jul 2012 by User 271009

Change and Deleted Item Tracking within the Infragistics DataGrid

Change and Deleted Item Tracking within the Infragistics DataGrid

8 Jan 2015 by User 271009

Change and deleted item tracking within the Infragistics datagrid

Changing the Caret Colour in WPF

7 Apr 2009 by Derek Lakin

Changing the Caret Colour in WPF

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.

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.

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

Comprehensive list of development tools for SharePoint Server 2007

5 May 2009 by Syed Adnan Ahmed

I have tried to summarise the list of development tools that you require in your day to day development.

Create Client Context To Access SharePoint 2013 (Office 365 Preview) in AutoHosted SharePoint App Model using SharePoint Client Object Model (CSOM)

5 Oct 2012 by Melick

How to create client context to access SharePoint 2013 (Office 365 preview) in AutoHosted SharePoint app model using SharePoint Client Object Model

Create Custom Windows in WPF with Ease

28 Dec 2010 by Ashish Kaila

How to create custom Windows in WPF with ease

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.

Creating a Dynamic WPF Menu: Part 1

24 Oct 2014 by Wastedtalent

Part 1 of how to create a dynamic WPF menu

Creating a Dynamic WPF Menu: Part 3

24 Oct 2014 by Wastedtalent

Creating a dynamic WPF Menu: Part 3

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

Creating Powerpoint Table using ‘OpenXML’ with XAML Applications

18 Oct 2014 by adityaswami89

A generic way of adding a table to Powerpoint using OpenXML

Custom Media Player in WPF (Part 1)

4 Jan 2011 by Panagiotis Bailis

Custom media player in WPF - Part 1

Custom Media Player in WPF (Part 1)

22 Feb 2014 by Panagiotis Bailis

Custom media player in WPF (Part 1)

Data Templates Implementation Outside of WPF

28 May 2014 by Nick Polyak

Data Templates implementation outside of WPF

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...

Deal with Performance in WPF applications

12 Mar 2011 by Abhishek Sur

Deal with Performance in WPF applications

Define Your Own Dialog Box in Winform

19 Mar 2012 by Md. Rashim Uddin

How to define your own dialog box

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!

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.

Developing Resolution-Independent Applications in WPF

13 Mar 2015 by DotNetForAll

How to develop resolution independent applications in WPF

EF Code First and WPF with the Chinook Database. Part 1 – The Model

13 Jan 2011 by Leom Burke

EF Code First and WPF with the Chinook Database. Part 1 – The Model

EF Code First and WPF with the Chinook database. Part 1b – the provider

20 Jan 2011 by Leom Burke

EF Code First and WPF with the Chinook database. Part 1b – the provider

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EF Code First and WPF with the Chinook database. Part 3 – Styles and DataTemplates 101

22 Feb 2011 by Leom Burke

I have decided to split out the styling work into 2 posts as it would be a huge post to restyle even something so simple.

Enforcing Single Instance WPF Applications

1 Aug 2010 by Daniel Vaughan

How to enforce single instance WPF applications

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

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

Extensibility Series – WPF & Silverlight Design-Time Code Sharing – Part II

13 Jan 2010 by User 271009

WPF and Silverlight Design-Time code sharing

Friction Scrolling Now a WPF Attached Behaviour too

29 Dec 2009 by Sacha Barber

Friction scrolling is now a WPF attached behaviour too

16 Apr 2009 by Pete O'Hanlon

How to have fun with fonts in WPF

Genereting proxies during runtime using Reflection.Emit

25 Dec 2018 by n.podbielski

Reflection.Emit is very powerful tool. It creates IL code and since C# is converted into IL too, we have the same functionality as in C# and even more. It is very powerful and at the same time very complicated. Because of that it is worth to discuss how and for what it should be used.

Getting control of your numbers

1 Apr 2011 by Pete O'Hanlon

A simple mechanism to limit the input of data to a TextBox so that it only accepted the relevant numeric amount.

Getting started with Prism 2, formerly known as the Composite Application Library

22 Apr 2009 by Wes Aday

IntroductionPrism is a set of libraries that allow developers to compose applications from separate components into a composite application.

Global Exceptions Handling in WPF

2 Apr 2016 by EngineerSpock

Global exceptions handling in WPF

Grandia's initiative bar

26 Jun 2013 by Victor Rene

Gradia's initiative bar

Guide in developing Initiation Form on Sharepoint Workflows

3 Dec 2010 by Raymund Macaalay

Guide in developing Initiation Form on Sharepoint Workflows

Hands on Lab for Key Features Used in Silverlight/WPF Projects

5 Jun 2012 by ManojKumar19

Hands on Lab for MVVM, Value Converter, XAML Binding, Delegate Command pattern, INotifyPropertyChange, Lambda Expression, LINQ etc. in Silverlight/WPF project

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

How to Categorize Control Properties for XAML View Inside Blend and Visual Studio?

10 Jul 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Organizing custom control properties inside Visual Studio and Expression Blend

Expression-blend

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 Shaped or Irregular Window in WPF

23 Jan 2012 by Ayobami Adewole

How to create shaped or irregular window in WPF

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.

How to Design a Custom Control by Editing the Part Template?

6 Apr 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

This is a continuation to my previous post "How to create a Custom Control in Silverlight".

Windows-Phone-7

How to enable code blocks in Sharepoint 2010 (Works also in 2007)

26 Oct 2010 by Raymund Macaalay

How to enable code blocks in Sharepoint 2010 (Works also in 2007)

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.

How to use Commands in WPF

4 Aug 2011 by Nadege Rouelle

How to use WPF Commands

How to use LINQ to Sharepoint

10 Feb 2011 by Raymund Macaalay

How to use LINQ to Sharepoint

How To: Use leaderboards on Windows Phone with XPG

31 Jan 2012 by XPG Live

Use leaderboards on Windows Phone with XPG

IDataErrorInfo with Fluent Validation

9 Dec 2014 by adityaswami89

Article on Validation in XAML applications with Fluent technique

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?

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

Implementing INotifyPropertyChanged

17 Mar 2010 by Arun Jacob

This article shows how to implement INotifyPropertyChanged.

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.

In GAC we Trust

29 Nov 2012 by Ivan Krivyakov

In GAC we trust

Infinite Maps (for games or similar)

12 Apr 2016 by Paulo Zemek

Infinite maps (for games or similar)

Install Sharepoint 2010 in a non Server OS

10 Feb 2011 by Raymund Macaalay

Install Sharepoint 2010 in a non Server OS

Inter-process Mediator

1 Apr 2010 by rudigrobler

Imagine for a second that you are writing an application like Outlook… let's call it MiMail.exe! This application is very basic and has 3 views that are relevant to me! I want to be able to see my mail, contacts and calendar!

Introducing DirectX to WPF

31 May 2011 by Super Lloyd

Introducing DirectX to WPF

Introducing MixModes Synergy 2010

31 Oct 2011 by Ashish Kaila

Introducing MixModes Synergy 2010

Is WPF dead: the present and future of WPF

12 Sep 2014 by Pragmateek

Introduction As a WPF developer for years I was recently concerned by the new direction chosen by Microsoft on its client platforms with the rise of the brand new WinRT framework. I was concerned for good reasons: I’ve suffered from … Continue reading →

Keyboard Input and TAB Navigation Between WPF Controls in a Win32 Application

15 Oct 2012 by Marius Bancila

I will show how to provide keyboard input for WPF controls hosted in a Win32 applications.

Kinect and WPF: Complete body tracking

3 Dec 2013 by Vangos Pterneas

Complete body tracking in Kinect.

Kinect and WPF: Getting the raw and depth image using OpenNI

3 Dec 2013 by Vangos Pterneas

Kinect and WPF: Getting the raw and depth image using OpenNI.