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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.

Latest Articles

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

All Articles

WPF

"smart" WPF text-box with Input Restriction and Validation

24 Jan 2016 by Daniel Brousser

Custom TextBox control for UI input validation

7-Segment Time Display Widget in WPF

19 Jul 2015 by Revanth Ramesh

Futuristic Talking 7-Segment Time Display Widget in WPF

[How to] Listen to your DragEventArgs!

12 Apr 2017 by Dave “DWC” Curry

How to wire up drag+drop events through multiple objects.

[WPF] Screen Cutter

16 Apr 2013 by Louis_Liu

WPF application to capture screen.

A Custom WPF ScrollViewer

7 Dec 2018 by Dirk Bahle

Making better use of the available UI space.

A Desktop App that Works Unchanged for WPF or WinForms

16 Nov 2020 by Erik Nagel

Usable demo demonstrating some aspects of application architecture

A Find and Replace Tool for AvalonEdit

3 May 2014 by Bruce Greene

A bare-bones Find and Replace tool for AvalonEdit

A First Impression of a clockwork using Simple Gears

11 Oct 2013 by wim4you

We wanted a first impression of a clockwork using simple gear for visual evaluation. A provisory prototype is made.

A Generic Implementation for ICommand

24 Dec 2013 by Senthilvel Samatharman

This tip provides a simple implementation for the ICommand interface and enables to write quick code leaving the nuances of fetching the return types and asynchrony

A High-Quality IconBitmapEncoder for WPF

11 Nov 2017 by Herbert Lausmann

An IconBitmapEncoder that produces high-quality icons, written in VB.NET and C#, WPF

A Very Simple Example of Data Binding in WPF

4 Feb 2012 by Erol Esen

This is a very simple example of data binding between two controls in WPF.

A WPF CheckBox ListBox

11 Oct 2017 by Clifford Nelson

This tip presents a way to display checkboxes for selection of ListBox Items instead of the default highlighting

A WPF StackPanel-Surrogate with Shared-sizing Scope Ability

14 Sep 2014 by Mario Vernari

Here is a simple trick for simulating the shared-sizing feature of the WPF Grid even in a StackPanel fashion.

Accessing image from Resource File in XAML markup

9 Mar 2011 by Mahmudul Haque Azad

Accessing image from Resource File in XAML markup

Accessing SSRS Reports from SharePoint Site using C#

20 Dec 2013 by Subodh Raikar

Accessing SSRS Reports from SharePoint Site using C#

Add "Zooming" to a WPF Window or User Control

6 Jan 2015 by MarkLTX

Allow users to "magnify" your WPF application!

Advanced WPF TreeView with Multi-Level Binding (Code Behind - No XAML!)

21 Dec 2017 by Peter Sun (247)

Demonstrate how to create WPF TrewView with multiple levels of HierarchicalDataTemplate from C# code-behind without XAML using MVVM for data binding

Airspace Solution

28 Feb 2022 by Saurabh Singh _

A simple approach to handle Airspace problem

All purpose Boolean to Visibility Converter

20 Nov 2011 by Wayne Gaylard

All purpose Boolean to Visibility Converter

All purpose Boolean to Visibility Converter

18 Nov 2011 by rhuiden

I would first like to say that I have been through the same situation, but never took the time to develop a more dynamic converter. I like your idea, but don't like the implementation. If I know what I want to happen (when the value is true then make the control hidden), I have to do some mental...

All-Purpose Message Box in WPF

3 Mar 2014 by Joezer BH

Avoiding a cumbersome message box or input box that locks the application in WPF.

Always Trim Hard-Coded Control Name String Before Assignment To Avoid Misleading Compile Error Message

6 Feb 2010 by Ozimandius

aCanvas.Name = "aCanvas ".Trim();

An alternate implementation to Paste data into the WPF DataGrid

28 Aug 2011 by Reto Ravasio

Howto Paste and not make a mess

An Empirical Approach to Data Binding in Universal Windows Applications

24 Sep 2015 by brain2cpu

The way x:Bind is (not) working in universal Windows applications

An Observable Generic Tree Collection

11 Nov 2015 by Yuriy Magurdumov

Simple generic data structure to maintain hierarchical objects

Analyzing HTML Documents with Ease: An Introduction to NSoup and ExCSS

21 Nov 2014 by Farzan Hajian

Analyzing HTML documents using NSoup and ExCSS libraries

Animations made easy in WPF.

19 May 2015 by Bhanu Pratap Singh Rathore

Animate Controls with ease using the MAnimation class developed by myself and can be used by anyone.

Apply Animation Concurrently on Multiple Controls

13 Jun 2012 by billxie

Advanced technique to apply animation concurrently on multiple controls.

Applying Reusable Read Only Styles for WPF Controls at Application/User Control Level

23 Sep 2015 by Ponkarthikeyan Thangavel

This tip describes about applying reusable read-only styles for WPF controls at Application/User Control level

Asynchronous Programming

12 Nov 2013 by John Pravin

Asynchronous Programming with Task Parallel Library.

Asynchronous SQL Database Wrapper

7 Apr 2015 by Amir Dashti

A simple but powerful class to simplify executing T-SQL commands asynchronously

Attributed RelayCommand

4 Jun 2014 by arpanmukherjee1

RelayCommand.CanExecute in MVVM with attributes not WPF Requery

Auto Sizing WPF GridView Class

7 Aug 2020 by Jeff East

Implements automatic column width sizing based on item contents for ListViews using GridView

Auto Updating the exe from a network location when application starts

27 Jan 2015 by SREENATH GANGA

Auto updating the exe if the latest exe is available in the network share

Automatic Undo/Redo

11 Feb 2015 by Emiliano El Mariachi

Here is a small library to help you have an automatic undo/redo feature without explicit dependency on Undo/Redo system.

AvalonEdit and Spell check

14 Mar 2013 by Chandramouleswaran

Quick hack for spell check with AvalonEdit.

AverageMeter in WPF

22 Apr 2015 by Amin Esmaeily

In this tip, I will explain how to create a simple user control (AverageMeter) using WPF.

Basic MVVM and ICommand Usage Example

2 Mar 2017 by Nomesh G

Setting up basic MVVM in WPF and ICommand usage to allow operations on ViewModel from view.

Behavior and Trigger in WPF/Silverlight

11 Jun 2012 by syncsivakumar

Behaviors and Triggers explained with samples.

Behaviors + MVVM = MVBVM = Make A Clearly Business Logic

28 Dec 2013 by comiscience

Behaviors complete MVVM

Binding a Text to Multiple Sources

27 Apr 2016 by Clifford Nelson

This article presents a way to display a message in a single control with several sources in a priority order

Binding Radio Buttons to a Single Property

11 Aug 2014 by Volodymyr Trubachov

Describes the approach to bind a group of radio buttons to a single property, regardless of the property type (enum, bool, int, string).

Binding to a singleton the elegant way using a custom DataSourceProvider

18 Sep 2010 by Kubajzz

How to turn a static property of any type into a StaticResource

Binding with Properties defined in Code Behind

7 Jul 2013 by Amit_Mittal

An easy way to bind XAML with properties defined in code behind

Binding with Respect to CurrentCulture

29 Jun 2015 by jindrich.babica

Binding with respect to CurrentCulture

Binding WPF TreeView TreeViewNode to Parent ViewModel

2 Aug 2017 by Clifford Nelson

Fairly straight forward way of binding in a HierarchicalDataTemplate or DataTemplate to the parent ViewModel when using the TreeView control.

Blur Effect on Control

3 Apr 2014 by RumataEstorish

Simple code for applying and disabling blur effect on any UIElement

Bool To Content Converter

15 Nov 2013 by Francisco T. Chavez

Bool to content converter

Broadcasting Data using .NET TPL Dataflow

18 Jan 2014 by Thrivikram Hathwar

How to broadcast data using .NET TPL dataflow

Building a C# WPF Twitter Reader with REST API (Now .NET Core 3 Version!)

18 Jun 2022 by Peter Sun (247)

Create a C# WPF app to read Twitter tweets and retweets via REST API with grouping related users / friends by categories. As a bonus, tweets can be saved in Azure / Cloud, and viewed in an Azure website.

Built-in Automatic Sorting for WPF ListView Items

14 Feb 2015 by Dan Maroff

A custom ListView class that uses reflection to sort columns based on the DisplayMemberBinding's bound data type

BusyIndicator with a Cancel-Button

26 Nov 2014 by Aaginor

Add a Cancel-Button to the BusyIndicator (WPF Toolkit)

Button Inside passwordbox like Windows 8 in WPF Usercontrol

6 Nov 2013 by Jagadeeswaran Natarajan

WPF passwordbox usercontrol

Button Tip - IsDefault / IsCancel (and other usability tips)

9 Oct 2013 by _Noctis_

Quick tip for forms/windows/views where save/insert/cancel buttons are used

C# Code Execution Time Compiler - WPF Application

15 Aug 2015 by Rakesh Vemula

A Windows application which processes your code and shows how much time it takes to execute your code.

C# TCP/IP Networking Client/Server Library

7 Apr 2015 by Amir Dashti

A simple but powerful class to simplify packet based networking and client/server programming asynchronously

C# WPF Master-Detail View Navigation: A Data-Driven Approach

5 Jul 2018 by Peter Sun (247)

Master-detail view navigation using manageable data-driven and code-behind techniques

C# WPF WYSIWYG HTML Editor

28 Jan 2015 by Yannick Turbang

HTML WPF editor WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get).

Calcium SDK: Replace IShell Implementation

19 Feb 2010 by Daniel Vaughan

When using the Calcium SDK[^]to replace the shell implementation entirely with your own implementation, use:void Application_Startup(object sender, StartupEventArgs e){ var container = new UnityContainer(); ServiceLocatorSingleton.Instance.InitializeServiceLocator(container); ...

Calendar of Events in Windows Phone

15 Oct 2012 by Houssem Dellai

Developing a Windows Phone app step by step

Caller Info Attributes in C# 5.0

13 Jun 2013 by Sagar Sumant

Caller Info attributes in C# 5.0 and their usage

Caret for WPF User Controls

30 Jul 2012 by Kashif_Imran

A simple Caret for WPF User Controls

Change Tracking an ObservableCollection

6 Jul 2018 by Daniel Ziegelmiller

How to track changes in the ObservableCollection displayed in a WPF DataGrid

Change WPF DataGrid Styles in Code Behind

21 Nov 2014 by ferragus

Change WPF DataGrid Styles in code behind

ChatGPT API in C# WPF / XAML / MVVM

16 Feb 2024 by Peter Sun (247)

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

CheckBoxList in Wpf With C#

29 May 2012 by Amit Sanandiya From Morbi

Display Selected Column Dynamically Using checkBoxList in Wpf With C#

Circular Indeterminate Progressbar

30 May 2013 by Mitesh k Prajapati

This is a WPf circular indeterminate progressbar and you can use this in your application for loading processes which are in an indeterminate state.

Closing View from ViewModel

27 Feb 2013 by Fun@learn

Lightweight approach to close view from viewmodel command.

ComboBox ObservableCollection Overkill

6 Dec 2013 by dietmar paul schoder

RibbonComboBox in MVVM/WPF: the easiest way

Compact Audio Player for Language Learning

15 Aug 2020 by Clifford Nelson

A media player application specifically designed to support listening to language learning tracks

Concise PropertyChanged Implementation

29 Jun 2016 by Simon Bridge

Save wear and tear on your keyboard: INotifyPropertyChanged with the fewest key-strokes.

Connect WPF with Wamp Server MySql

5 Aug 2014 by Anis Derbel

The easy way to connect to Mysql using Wamp server on WPF

Control Not Found in Namespace but App Compiles Fine

17 Nov 2014 by #realJSOP

How to fix this ANNOYING problem

Conversion between File, Byte , Stream,BitmapImage and WriteableBitmap

5 Aug 2014 by Anis Derbel

This tip resume the majority types of conversion that we need while developing

Correcting the WPF Spider control thingy

7 Feb 2011 by Fredrik Bornander

This tip corrects my horrible attempt of a Spider Control

Create Animation using Separated Images

2 Mar 2014 by Ruzli999

How to create Animation using separated Images

Create Collection from a DataSet

7 Aug 2014 by Gold$Coin

This tip will help you to create a collection from a DataSet

Creating a Multi-header Column, XamDataPresenter

11 Feb 2015 by Mohit Johri

This tip will help you to display data using XamDataPresenter (or any DataGrid) which will have multi-header column.

Creating an IconBlock in Xaml

11 Jun 2015 by Lance Contreras

Create an easily resusable IconBlock (TextBlock that display's an icon)

Creating Custom WPF Derived Control with Attached XAML File

25 Jun 2018 by Clifford Nelson

A way to create a custom derived control with the XAML file attached like a UserControl

Creating Custom WPF Icon Button

26 Apr 2020 by Omnia Hussain

A walk-through for creating a custom WPF button that contains both icon and text

Creating Metro (Windows 8) Loading Animation Using XAML

19 Feb 2013 by AesopTurtle

Mimic a loading animation as seen in Windows 8 using pure XAML.

CSS in WPF

1 Nov 2021 by Ilija Poznić

Adding class selector to WPF

Custom Calendar Style WPF

2 Mar 2016 by Shailendra Singh Deol

Customize default style of calendar in WPF

Custom Datepicker Style WPF

2 Mar 2016 by Shailendra Singh Deol

Customize datepicker style in WPF

Custom Expander Control for WPF

7 Feb 2017 by shahidul.haq

A WPF custom control for grouping data similar to build-in expander

Custom ShowDialog() method for WPF

29 Apr 2011 by Renat Khabibulin

Custom ShowDialog() method for WPF

Custom Text Wrapping in WPF TextBlocks

13 Jul 2012 by Opata Chibueze

This tip demonstrates how to wrap text in WPF - similar to using &shy or

Custom ToggleButton with Popup

19 Jun 2017 by David Fine

Using Attached DependencyProperty to prevent closing of Popup embedded in ToggleButton

custom-controls

Custom WPF ListBox with Banding and Coloring in Code

23 May 2015 by RickZeeland

Creating a custom ListBox by overriding the PrepareContainerForItemOverride() method of the ListBox with a custom routine.

Custom WPF TextBox Style

28 Dec 2010 by John_Smith78

TextBox Style which resembles the Twitter's text field.

Customize Window System Menu in WPF

4 Feb 2012 by Jawahar Suresh Babu

The article describes how to customize default System Menu in WPF

Data binding in WPF DataGrid control using SQL Server database

10 Apr 2012 by Deepak_Sharma_

In this article I will explain how to display data from a SQL Server database table in a WPF DataGrid control

Data Table, Cells And Rows Merging Control (XTable)

3 Mar 2016 by Henka.Programmer

WPF Control allows to create complex data table with cell merging, columns merging, complex columns and rows merging

.NET-Compiler-Platform

Data validation in WPF

5 Feb 2014 by DonWim

how to implement data validation via regular expressions in a WPF application

Data Virtualization using DataGrid

30 Oct 2018 by Carsten Breum

Data Virtualization example with a pagesize and async data request

Database Object Model

21 Feb 2012 by databaseobjectmodel

A Sample ORM project

Databinding Examples in WPF for VB.NET

9 Sep 2013 by The Myth

Databinding examples in WPF for VB.NET.

Debugging Trick in XAML DataBinding

7 Jan 2011 by Venkatesh Mookkan

Debugging XAML DataBinding

Defer Any Algorithm

23 Jun 2013 by Aaron Amberman

Defer algorithms to run once within a given time span