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by defwebserver
An example of a Silverlight 4 View Model Style video player that is not just 'skinable' but fully 'designable'.
by Jawahar Suresh Babu
The article describes how to implement Rubberband behavior for WPF Listbox. Also it describes how to add the behavior using Expression Blend.
by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
Customized Scrolling in Silverlight using Expression Blend
by Andrew Rissing
A tip to overcome limitations in Blend 3 and Blend 4 RC when dealing with attached dependency properties.

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8 May 2011 by defwebserver
An example of a Silverlight 4 View Model Style video player that is not just 'skinable' but fully 'designable'.
16 Jun 2012 by Jawahar Suresh Babu
The article describes how to implement Rubberband behavior for WPF Listbox. Also it describes how to add the behavior using Expression Blend.
13 Nov 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
Customized Scrolling in Silverlight using Expression Blend
27 May 2010 by Andrew Rissing
A tip to overcome limitations in Blend 3 and Blend 4 RC when dealing with attached dependency properties.
10 Jul 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
Organizing custom control properties inside Visual Studio and Expression Blend
20 Jun 2013 by Meshack Musundi
Inserting a 3D object into a WPF project in Expression Blend, with some help from Blender
4 Jul 2013 by Timmy Kokke
Extending Blend for Visual Studio.
10 Jan 2016 by Jitesh Hirani
Hii Luiey Ichigo,I have also developed POS application and WPF many times consumes much memory even when idle.Even by following the above links(Provided in Solution 1),sometime a part of memory is not cleared(i.e. memory leak remains).Please find the code below and use it in some common...
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?
22 Jul 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
How to use Expression Blend to change the Layout Type efficiently
23 Aug 2013 by Adrian Akison
App Innovation Game for Lenovo Horizon All-In-One
11 Sep 2017 by Alen Toma
Entity Framework Dynamic include hierarchy
18 Oct 2010 by Venkatesh Mookkan
Yes, You can. You need to set a Key (resource key) for your StoryBoard animation while designing a StoryBoard in XAML. Access it from codebehind using TryFindResource function. Then call BeginAnimation().
22 Oct 2012 by Adrian Akison
Submission of Meteor Madness to The App Innovation Contest.
18 Jan 2013 by Nietzsche61
This will work better in most cases :Storyboard myStoryboard = (Storyboard)(this.FindName("myStoryboard"));myStoryboard.Begin();
4 Jul 2013 by Timmy Kokke
The basics of the Hub control and how to use it when working in Blend for Visual Studio 2013 preview.
16 Apr 2010 by balaji gudipati
Hi... I want to place an UI element inside a hexagon. I have tried different ways to do so. Since, hexagon is a path geometry, I am unable to do. Please help me out to sort this as this is my project an d I don't have enough time. Thanks in Advance Cheers
17 Apr 2010 by Abhinav S
AFAIK, you cannot place a control inside a path.The other way round, however, is very possible.
27 May 2010 by Henry Minute
Without seeing the actual code causing the problem it is very difficult for anyone to be certain of the cause, although it sounds as if there is an error (maybe a typo) in the namespace(s) you are using.Please edit your question (click on the 'Improve Question' widget) and then paste your...
29 May 2010 by Jürgen Röhr
Hi,to me it sounds more like you added the invalid token where it doesn't belong - in the .xaml-file (maybe an attribute without quotationsmarks). But as said, a reliable answer is possible only with the code (preferably both .xaml AND .xaml.cs).CheersJürgen
9 Sep 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
Hi Balaji,You can't directly put an UIElement inside the Hexagon. Best way to do is wrap the Hexagon with a Grid control and then place the UIElement inside the Grid on top of the Hexagon.Let me know, if you need more help on it.
4 Apr 2011 by Curtis Taylor
Explore the fast and highly customizable UI controls in Infragistics NetAdvantage for WPF Line of Business from the perspective of a Microsoft Expression Blend user. In revealing much of the data grid’s object model, I cover some of the more popular ways to format and style grids in Blend.
8 May 2011 by mass shabani
Storyboard stbMove = (Storyboard)FindResource("storyboardname");stbMove.Begin();
31 Oct 2011 by Ashish Kaila
Expression Blend and Visual Studio designer(s) have stringent conditions that a user control has to follow in order for its type to be even declared compatible for loading.
14 Dec 2015 by VR Karthikeyan
Memory Usage of the application is determined by our coding practices. Without seeing your code, we can't find out the reason for your issue. Anyway, following best programming practices will help you to develop memory efficient applications. Refer the following CP article,1. Building High...
14 Dec 2015 by Dave Kreskowiak
OK, so you've got about 273MB worth of stuff sitting in byte arrays. What are they and what are you doing with them?We can't see you're code so it's impossible to tell you what's going on.
23 Dec 2015 by Luiey Ichigo
Hi all,Currently in my program, I have put a design of "You are here" which draw path by path until complete icon of "You are here" and group all of this path into Grid.Now on my code, I will point the Grid (gd_youarehere) to location that public want to go. My current code for pointing...
31 Dec 2015 by Gerry Schmitz
If you want "move" stuff around, you should really be using a "Canvas"; then you can set the Top and Left of a UI element (and not worry about "margins" and "size").Canvases (as well as other objects) can overlay existing objects (using grid cells or other canvases). With a transparent...
8 Jan 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
In this article, I will guide you through the steps of customization with the help of a sample application. We will need Microsoft Expression Blend for the full customization. Read the complete article to learn about it.
13 Jul 2010 by defwebserver
Using Fluent Validation on the website to validate business rules in a Silverlight application
6 Nov 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
In this article, I will show you how to fire Triggers to call some methods present in your ViewModel, instead of writing in the code behind file. Read more to learn about it.
15 Jul 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
In this article, I will guide you through creating a UI Wrapper Library for the installation experience of your Silverlight Out-of-Browser application.
24 Sep 2014 by Meshack Musundi
A WPF 3D Rubik's Cube application
2 Jan 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
Do you have a huge collection of data inside your DataGrid and want to integrate Pagination to show records page by page and don’t know how to do? Then this article will help you to understand the same.
25 Jun 2011 by defwebserver
An example of a Silverlight Drag And Drop / Or Browse File Upload Control using View Model / MVVM
7 Dec 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
Do you work with Silverlight DataGrid and want to group your records inside the DataGrid in a proper manner? If so, this article is for you. Here we will learn about data grouping inside a DataGrid.
6 Jul 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
In this article I will guide you creating a File Explorer in Silverlight 4. This step-by-step guide will help yoou understanding the API call and how to access local files, folders and drives using the Silverlight 4 COM APIs.
2 Jul 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
In this article, I will demonstrate in a step-by-step manner how we can create a Text-to-Speech application using the COM APIs in Silverlight 4. Read it. Learn and Vote for this Article. Feedback and/or Suggestions are most welcome.
18 Mar 2011 by Meshack Musundi
A 2D carousel like UserControl in WPF
14 Nov 2010 by defwebserver
Dynamically creating tabs of different types in the same Tab Control
15 Apr 2011 by Meshack Musundi
A WPF Target Shooting Game
20 Jul 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
In this post, I will describe how to integrate the new symbol for the Indian Rupee in Silverlight application.
26 Sep 2010 by defwebserver
Easily implement two-way communication between Master and Child View Models that works with Microsoft Expression Blend
22 Dec 2013 by Kashif_Imran
The article shows the proecess of creating and using a discrete value slider for Silverlight.
24 Feb 2009 by Sacha Barber
An article showing how to do DeepZoom in Silverlight 2.0.
21 Jul 2010 by Meshack Musundi
Learn how to create a WPF image viewer in Expression Blend.
20 Apr 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
Silverlight 5 Beta has been announced with newly added feature called ClickCount. It's a property added to the MouseButtonEventArgs. Using this, you will be able to find out how many multiple clicks happened by the user.
19 Sep 2013 by Torsten Tiedt
Enables filtering in standard DataGrid control.
3 Apr 2010 by Alan Beasley
Beginner's guide to building robust, scalable, and easily editable buttons
18 Jul 2010 by defwebserver, Alan Beasley, hisowa
Creating multiple dynamic Views using View Model Style and the Silverlight Tab Control.
25 Sep 2010 by defwebserver
An example of Silverlight View Model communication between Master and Child View Models
20 Jan 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
This article will definitely help you. Here, I will show you how to modify the XAML to add different content to create a multi level row group header too.
26 Nov 2010 by logicchild
An article that demonstrates how both Simple and Parametric surfaces are drawn
27 Jun 2011 by Meshack Musundi
A WPF Peer-to-Peer chess application that utilizes WCF and PNM.
16 May 2012 by Meshack Musundi
13 Dec 2011 by defwebserver
Viewing .rdlc reports from Silverlight using View Model (MVVM)
27 Jul 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
In this article, I will guide you to understand the functionality of this control. Also, I will guide you step-by-step to create your first PathListBox control demo application. Here we will create the above two samples where the collection of texts will position them in proper location on the edge
4 Nov 2010 by logicchild
An article that illustrates how to simulate a pendulum.
4 Apr 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
Some important Shortcut keys of Microsoft Expression Blend 4
23 Jan 2011 by Meshack Musundi
Learn how to skin a WPF application in Expression Blend.
11 Aug 2010 by logicchild
An article that both explains the Hows and Whys behind WPF.
8 Nov 2010 by logicchild
Why recursion in C# works well when using WPF.
12 Sep 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
In this article, I am going to describe each shape and the process of adding it in our application (whenever we need to). This article is for the beginners who don’t know much about the shape controls.
8 Aug 2010 by defwebserver
The Silverlight DataGrid using inline editing, paging, sorting, and button events, using the View Model.
29 Sep 2011 by Meshack Musundi
A WPF application that replicates the Windows 8 Start screen
3 Apr 2011 by Meshack Musundi
7 Dec 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
In this article, we will see how this PagedCollectionView will help us to filter out the records based on the search keyword. Not much code but the trick done with the same class will do everything for us in some easy way. We will learn about this here in this article.
3 Nov 2010 by Anoop Pillai
The article explain Server side image rendering using data bound XAML. You'll be able to render WPF controls and create data-bound image visualizations using this technique
3 Oct 2018 by Alen Toma
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26 Apr 2011 by logicchild
Using animation via XAML code to draw a Bezier curve object.
9 Oct 2017 by Georgeutc
Adding sliding functionality to UWP XAML SplitView
26 Apr 2010 by Timmy Kokke
How to build an extension for Expression Blend 4 to search the Objects Pane
29 Sep 2011 by Alеksey Nemiro
This article describes how to create a simple class library to get the mail through the POP3 protocol and MIME parser.
10 Mar 2011 by Meshack Musundi
Creating a magnification effect in WPF and how to use my Magnifier control
26 Apr 2010 by Timmy Kokke
Expression Blend 4 uses MEF to enable 3rd parties to build extensions. Here's how to get started.
26 Aug 2010 by logicchild
An article that demonstrates how to write C# to draw via the WPF engine
10 Dec 2015 by Luiey Ichigo
Hi all,Im developing a WPF page for Windows Application. On default page,there will be a video playing continuosly until user touch the screen.I've seen the task manager when the video is loaded. It use 1.2GB/3.8GB. After left it idle while video plays for 30minutes, I see the video...
24 Mar 2010 by sufiyan_ansari1
Is it possible to drag and drop an image (size 100x100) onto an InkCanvas in Expression Blend?
24 Mar 2010 by sufiyan_ansari1
it wd hav taken the same 2 seconds for a Pro like you to teach a beginner like me how to do it... :~
18 Oct 2010 by krishnagali
How can I manually run a story board animation created in a blend WPF project using a code-behind file?
15 Dec 2015 by Luiey Ichigo
Hi all,I'm creating a WPF program for kiosk in full screen running 12 hours/day every day. I have test in my home for memory usage since sometimes it becomes lag and slow. I run the program with task manager on top of the screen and start clicking the function on the screen. I see the memory...
12 Feb 2016 by Rage
So I have now been searching hours for why I cannot start debugging a .dll of mine runned by a third-party process by attaching the .dll process to the visual studio debugger.This is because there is no just-in-time debugger registered and enabled on my machine.The JIT debugger can be turned...
12 Feb 2016 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
I don't know about Express, but don't use it; it's not good enough. Better use another free-of-charge version: 2013 or 2015 Community Edition. In features, these editions are close or equivalent to "normal" Professional bundles.Probably, for fixing your debugging problem we don't have enough...