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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

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WPF

WPF: DataGrid Filterable, Multi Language

5 Mar 2024 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

1 Mar 2024 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

Redesigned German Cards Game "Schafkopf"

16 Feb 2024 by Jo_vb.net

This article and the demo are about getting started using my Schafkopf_OOP VB.NET project.

Analyzing and Customizing the Detailed Mechanisms of WPF Slider Control

15 Feb 2024 by vickyqu115

This exploration into the WPF Slider control aims to provide a deep understanding of how WPF designs its controls and their internal mechanisms. While it's nearly impossible to delve into every WPF control's internals due to the vast source code, there's no urgent need to worry or complain.

Migrate Windows Applications from the Desktop to the Browser

31 Jan 2024 by Levie Rufenacht, Thomas Althammer

Instead of rewriting: Modernize WinForms & WPF solutions with Wisej.NET

Customizing ListBox for a Smooth Animated Navigation Bar in WPF

10 Jan 2024 by vickyqu115

Control featuring design and animations specialized for mobile, but can be elegantly and structurally implemented using ListBox and Animation technologies available in WPF.

UniDock - A New Multiplatform UI Docking Framework. UniDock Power Features.

1 Jan 2024 by Nick Polyak

Describes the new powerful features of UniDock, the new multiplatform UI docking framework.

MasterGrab: PC Strategy Game, Easy to Learn, Fun to Win. Also Write Your Own C# Game Robot!

25 Dec 2023 by Peter Huber SG

Do you need a 10 minute break or want to do some mental warmup before programming? This free game is for you.

CaptureManager SDK - Capturing, Recording and Streaming Video and Audio from Web-Cams

17 Dec 2023 by Evgeny Pereguda

This article presents my project for capturing of video and audio sources on Windows OS by Microsoft Media Foundation.

Use WPF to Create a Day and Night Theme Switch Button

5 Dec 2023 by vickyqu115

How to create a day and night theme switch button using WPF

Creating a "League of Legends" Inspired Play Button in WPF

29 Nov 2023 by vickyqu115

This article provides a detailed explanation and analysis of developing a PLAY button inspired by the game "League of Legends" using pure WPF technology.

.NET Silent ClickOnce Installer for Winform & WPF in C# & VB

12 Oct 2023 by Graeme_Grant

.NET compliant Silent ClickOnce Update Background Worker Service for Winform, WPF & Console in C# & VB

WPF: Displaying Photos and Videos Properly in Portrait and Landscape orientation

23 Sep 2023 by Peter Huber SG

Detailed article explaining how to make WPF display media files created by mobile phones properly

Implementing Desktop Apps with Windows 11 on Arm64 and .NET

11 Sep 2023 by Dawid Borycki

This article demonstrates how to use WPF with .NET 8.0 to implement a desktop application that runs on Arm64.

LogViewer Control for WinForms, WPF, and Avalonia in C# & VB

11 Sep 2023 by Graeme_Grant

.NET Core LogViewer Control for WinForms, WPF, and Avalonia using the ILogger Framework with Microsoft Logger, Serilog, NLog, and Log4Net in C# & VB on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux

Musical Study with Isomorphic Computer Keyboard

24 Jul 2023 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

A computer keyboard can be turned into an isomorphic musical instrument, to help in deeper exploration of the Musical Harmony and even to inspire new musical ideas

Interpolate 2D Points Using Bezier Curves in WPF

8 Jul 2023 by Raul Otaño Hurtado

This article shows a simple way of interpolating a set of points using Bezier curves in WPF.

How to Add Simple Photo Processing to Your WPF Application

24 May 2023 by Peter Huber SG

Let the user import, adjust and view images

How to Make WPF Behave like Windows when Dealing with Images (Solving DPI Problems)

10 May 2023 by Peter Huber SG

WPF design might have been too clever when using DIP (device independent pixels)

Introduction to glTF for WPF 3D

1 May 2023 by Kenneth Haugland

A basic guide for reading glTF files and showing simple 3D images

A Simple Property Grid Control

11 Apr 2023 by IssamTP

A .NET XAML user control to get a simple PropertyGrid

BaseLib.Tracer: Tracing Done Right

31 Mar 2023 by Peter Huber SG

Near real time, multi threading safe tracing for any .NET technology

My Works for YDock

5 Mar 2023 by Jo_vb.net

Use docking framework, MVVM Toolkit and some features

C# MVVM Toolkit Demo

27 Feb 2023 by Jo_vb.net

This article and the demo are about getting started using the MVVM Toolkit and some self-created interfaces / services for MessageBox and some dialogs.

Best Practices for a Visual Studio Report Generator

6 Feb 2023 by JBartlau

This article provides an overview of Visual Studio's integration of combit's report generator List & Label.

entity-framework

data-visualization

Miller Columns for WPF

4 Jan 2023 by Alexey A. Popov 2

A simple implementation of Miller columns (cascading columns) control

XPence: A WPF Metro Style, Smart Client Expense Tracker

28 Nov 2022 by Siddhartha S.

WPF smart client demo of nitty gritty of MVVM for a real life LOB application

Working with Newtonsoft.Json in C# & VB

31 Oct 2022 by Graeme_Grant

Working with simple JSON objects and collections to Custom Converters and Transformations into .NET classes - NewtonSoft.Json

Why SW Developers Should Write their Own Backup App and How To Do It Easily

16 Sep 2022 by Peter Huber SG

How you should organise your backups in the time of cloud storage and write your own app for it

LogViewer: A Fast WPF Control Displaying Logging Information

2 Sep 2022 by Peter Huber SG

Concurrent threads can use LogViewer to show the user scrollable information efficiently

Hosting of MFC MDI Applications from Within WinForms and WPF Applications

30 May 2022 by Alexey Shalnov

Building old MFC app in .NET app, replacing MFC MDI Framework with modern WinForms or WPF Framework and integrating MFC Views and Dialogs in it

Must Read for WPF Developers: WPF Control Test Bench

21 Mar 2022 by Peter Huber SG

WpfTestbench helps you to write sophisticated test windows for your WPF controls with few lines of code

3D Face Viewer and Matcher

19 Mar 2022 by Yang Kok Wah

A tool to generate face images and animated gif files for different angles and lighting using only a single face image. Also includes Face Matcher using Microsoft Face API.

Top 10 Benefits of .NET Reporting Tools

28 Feb 2022 by MESCIUS

In this article, we’ll identify the top 10 benefits of using reporting tools for your development projects.

Rubik’s Cube for Beginners (Version 2.0). C# Application with 3D Graphics and Animation. VS2022 .NET6

22 Feb 2022 by Uzi Granot

This program will solve a Rubik’s cube using algorithms for beginners. It is a WPF open source application written in C# for VS 2022 and .NET6 using 3D graphics and animation.

Deep Dive into WPF Layouting and Rendering

13 Feb 2022 by Peter Huber SG

Did you ever wonder what WPF is doing under the hood to place your control on the screen?

Improving the WPF DispatcherTimer Precision

3 Feb 2022 by Peter Huber SG

How to correct the problem that the DispatcherTimer raises the Tick events slower than required by Interval

Parse Transact SQL to Check Syntax

12 Jan 2022 by Andre Pieterse

How to implement a parse function within a C# WPF application

Avoid the WPF DataGrid Limitations, Replace It with Few Lines of Your Own Code

3 Jan 2022 by Peter Huber SG

A deep dive into how to easily display data exactly the way you want when DataGrid is not up to the task

Skip Logfiles - Try Automated Exception Handling!

19 Nov 2021 by jgauffin

codeRR is an open source error handling service. It includes the context information that you forgot to include when you logged/reported the exception.

Entity Factory - Get Your ORM-less Freak On!

4 Nov 2021 by #realJSOP

A tool to generate model and viewmodel classes directly from your selected database

Easy WPF Copy/Paste Excel

14 Oct 2021 by Juan Francisco Morales Larios

An easy way to copy and paste data between WPF application and Excel

UniDock - New Multiplatform Docking Framework (Introduction)

29 Aug 2021 by Nick Polyak

This article describes a new multiplatform Docking framework - UniDock

Advanced Guide to WPF ScrollBar or How to Display Millions of Colour Combinations

3 Aug 2021 by Peter Huber SG

Deep dive into the intricacies of combining scrolling and zooming in your control

Multiselect Combobox in WPF

26 May 2021 by Nilay M Joshi

Multiselect Combobox - Custom control for WPF

WPF LinearGradientBrush Parameters Demystified

7 May 2021 by Peter Huber SG

WPF LinearGradientBrush parameters are confusing and need a proper explanation

Async/Await Explained with Diagrams and Examples

15 Apr 2021 by David Deley

Explains program flow when using await in various scenarios

Sessiontime - Record Windows Session and Locked/unlocked Events and Parse and Display Collected Data

31 Mar 2021 by Ivan Golović

Record various Windows session events, log them, parse and display session events per user

Definitive Guide to WPF Colors, Color Spaces, Color Pickers and Creating Your Own Colors for Mere Mortals

15 Mar 2021 by Peter Huber SG

Covers in depth all WPF color related issues from Color Models, ColorPickers, Colors to helpful methods for mixing colors and making them brighter and darker.

WPF - Modeless Window Manager

1 Mar 2021 by #realJSOP

For those times when you need more control over when a modeless window is created/displayed

WPF - Dedicated Enumerator ListBox and ComboBox

23 Feb 2021 by #realJSOP

Implement enumerator selection in your WPF apps

WPF - Creating Observable Enumerators

22 Feb 2021 by #realJSOP

Present enumerators in your WPF UI

WPF IntegerUpDown Control - Adapt and Overcome

21 Feb 2021 by #realJSOP

Not about just writing code, but adapting someone else's code to your own needs

Unicode Art

20 Feb 2021 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Similar to ASCII Art, Unicode Art offers better tonal range, impressive look, and some fun on this sunny April day

A C# 3D Surface Plot Control

19 Feb 2021 by Leif Simon Goodwin

A 3D surface plot control in C#

Auto-generated columns in a WPF ListView

18 Feb 2021 by #realJSOP

A WPF ListView that automatically generates columns (that are also sortable) based on decorated entity properties

WPF DataGrid: Solving Sorting, ScrollIntoView, Refresh and Focus Problems

5 Feb 2021 by Peter Huber SG

Letting the user move some rows up and down in a DataGrid should be easy to implement, but it's a nightmare.

A Sudoku Puzzle Solver using Strategies

4 Feb 2021 by DavidHancock

A .NET 5.0 Windows application written in C# that attempts to solve Sudoku puzzles

Customizable WPF MessageBox

21 Jan 2021 by #realJSOP

Finally, a customizable MessageBox for WPF applications

A Multi-Select Control for Flags Enums in WPF

18 Jan 2021 by John Whitmire

A customizable way to set enum flags

Transform Clipboard Contents Between Copy and Paste

2 Jan 2021 by Brad Joss

Alter your clipboard contents before pasting to automate tasks

Using the PetaPoco ORM to Manage SQLServer, SQLIte, MySQL and ProgreSQL Databases

10 Dec 2020 by Leif Simon Goodwin

Simple WPF app that shows how to use PetaPoco library to manage an SQL database

Computed Properties in Xomega Framework

6 Dec 2020 by Xomega Team

How to write multi-platform UI framework independent presentation logic

A WPF-Friendly Shell_NotifyIcon Wrapper Class - Part 4: Ad Blocker Back End

2 Dec 2020 by Ronald M. Martin

A walk-through of the front end of a convenient ad blocking application that lives behind a notify icon

A WPF-Friendly Shell_NotifyIcon Wrapper Class - Part 3: Ad Blocker Front End

2 Dec 2020 by Ronald M. Martin

This article provides a walk-through of the front end of a convenient ad blocking application that lives behind a notify icon.

A WPF-Friendly Shell_NotifyIcon Wrapper Class - Part 2: Minimize to System Tray

2 Dec 2020 by Ronald M. Martin

This series of articles explores a new WPF-friendly wrapper class for Shell_NotifyIcon.

A WPF-Friendly Shell_NotifyIcon Wrapper Class - Part 1: Notify Icon Wrapper

2 Dec 2020 by Ronald M. Martin

This series of articles explores a new WPF-friendly wrapper class for Shell_NotifyIcon.

BuilderHMI.Lite - Simple Drag-and-Drop WPF Layout

18 Nov 2020 by Bruce Greene

.NET Core WPF design as quick and intuitive as WinForms! Hear that MICROSOFT?

Data Paging with Dynamic Data

8 Nov 2020 by Meshack Musundi

Paging data collections using the Dynamic Data library

Simple WPF Binding in Code-behind for Visual Basic .NET

7 Nov 2020 by Padanian

Updating user interface in WPF with simple one-way binding

Handwriting Recognition with WPF and Microsoft.Ink

20 Oct 2020 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

What works with Microsoft pen computing and what not? How to handle and recognize ink input for any supported language?

Global Shortcuts in WinForms and WPF

20 Oct 2020 by Akinmade Bond

Library that allows an app to process hotkeys and perform other keyboard manipulations

Face Detection in WPF using UWP Face Detection API

7 Oct 2020 by Meshack Musundi

Detecting faces in an image in WPF using the UWP face detection API

OCR in WPF using the WinRT OCR API

17 Aug 2020 by Meshack Musundi

Optical character recognition in WPF using Window Runtime OCR

WPF: Compact Navigation Menu

3 Aug 2020 by Meshack Musundi

Creating a compact navigation menu using a ListBox

4K (2160p) resolution for PS1, PS2, PSP games

2 Aug 2020 by Evgeny Pereguda

Clone of PCSX/PCSX2/PPSSPP emulator for Windows 10 on WPF/C# with "touch" control

Generic Testing Framework

30 Jul 2020 by Leo Chapiro

Generic framework to “programming” of any test cases in dynamic way

Stylet: A Basic Primer

21 Jul 2020 by Meshack Musundi

An overview of the Stylet MVVM framework

MvvmCross for WPF: A Basic Primer

7 Jul 2020 by Meshack Musundi

An overview of MvvmCross for WPF application development

Prism for WPF: A Basic Primer

1 Jul 2020 by Meshack Musundi

An overview of the Prism framework

Duplicate songs detector via audio fingerprinting

23 Jun 2020 by Ciumac Sergiu

Explains sound fingerprinting algorithm, with a practical example of detecting duplicate files on the user's local drive.

Full-Featured Visual Scripting Environment for R & Data Science

6 Jun 2020 by Alaa Ben Fatma

A visual scripting environment for R & data science

machine-learning

A WPF Tab Header Control with Scroll Buttons, Moveable Tab Items and a Close Button in Each Tab

30 Apr 2020 by Leif Simon Goodwin

WPF tab header control using two button controls and a modified listbox with list items arranged horizontally

Another Take on a WPF Wizard

11 Apr 2020 by #realJSOP

Any technology suitably advanced will generally be viewed as "magic".

International Phone Number Validation: Explained in Detail, Implemented with WPF TextBox

9 Apr 2020 by Peter Huber SG

A WPF Textbox which can validate international and national phone numbers depending on your needs, plus detailed explanation of the structure of phone numbers.

Organizing and Using Low Level Style Elements in WPF Resource Libraries

6 Apr 2020 by Rudolf Jan

Explains how to set up and use colours, fonts and dimensions for re-usability in WPF applications

WPF Asynchronous Functional Programming Styles in C#

30 Mar 2020 by Your Display Name Here

Introducing an Async First Model for WPF

Email Address Validation: Explained in Detail, Code for Production Quality WPF TextBox

30 Mar 2020 by Peter Huber SG

A WPF TextBox which can validate email addresses depending on your needs, plus detailed description of the many ways a valid email address may look like.

Custom ComboBox Control in Gtk# using MonoDevelop and Gtk3

25 Mar 2020 by Harry Constantinides

ComboBox control written in C#

Base WPF Window Functionality for Data Entry

25 Mar 2020 by Peter Huber SG

Controls verifying user input and reporting automatically to host window if data has been changed and if the required data is entered

How to Code Without Thinking?

11 Mar 2020 by Vassili Kravtchenko-Berejnoi

Use of a narrow-focus strategy in test-driven-development

A Media Player Control for WPF that can Play Almost Any Media

18 Feb 2020 by webmaster442

A Media player control for WPF, based on MPV player that can play almost any media file.

A WPF Text Control with Chilean RUT Mask

10 Feb 2020 by Cristián Ulloa Besserer

A Windows Presentation Foundation TextBox control with chilean tax ID mask, and its validation through modulus 11 algorithm.

TrafficLight Column in WPF DataGrid using MultiTrigger

20 Jan 2020 by Daniel H. W.

Using a self defined TrafficLight Column to virtualize a status bool and the readonly value at the same time instead of a simple CheckBox

Create An Awesome WPF UI for Your C++/QT Applications

6 Jan 2020 by The Ænema

This article will teach you how to create an amazing, clean and smooth WPF/Winform UI for your native application without using any complex, unsafe, ActiveXish methods, etc.

[WPF] Easiest Way to Create an Animated/Smoothed Scroll Bar

4 Jan 2020 by The Ænema

Here's the best, beautiful and easiest way to create an animated and smooth sliding scroll viewer in WPF Platform (Windows Presentation Foundation).

Using the Visitor Pattern to Maintain MVVM Layering While Implementing Dialogs in WPF

2 Jan 2020 by Daniel Ziegelmiller

A simplified approach to maintaining the WPF MVVM layers when the ViewModel needs to show a form dialog

Use WindowChrome to Customize the Title Bar in WPF

29 Dec 2019 by R.A.Dain

Change the title bar color, or anything else in the Windows chrome of a WPF application

Stream Player Control

25 Dec 2019 by Alexander Iacobciuc

In this article you will find an implementation of a stream player control.

Line of Business Application, the New Way

29 Nov 2019 by Weifen Luo

The new way to develop LOB applications