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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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How to Control TP-Link Smart Plug HS1XX

27 Dec 2017 by Alberto M.

How to control TP-Link Smart Plug (HS100 or HS110) with C#

Set Owner of a WPF Window to a Form

28 Nov 2011 by Akos Orban

Set Owner of a WPF Window to a Form

Using Microsoft Chart in WPF

2 Jul 2015 by Bharat Mallapur

Sample project to host MS-Chart in your WPF application

WPF TextBlock Highlighter

9 Feb 2018 by Meshack Musundi

How to highlight TextBlock text using attached properties

Sunflower Fractal - Practice

22 Nov 2013 by dyma

Sunflower fractal, so that you can play and create a wonderful image

Getting Started with MahApps.Metro

16 May 2015 by Mark Heath

Learn how to get started with MahApps.Metro, an open source library for giving your WPF applications a modern look and feel.

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

Databinding Examples in WPF for VB.NET

9 Sep 2013 by The Myth

Databinding examples in WPF for VB.NET.

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

How to Debug the Design Time Errors in WPF XAML File?

20 Oct 2015 by Manish Dubeyy

How to debug the design time errors in WPF XAML file?

Using Font Icons

12 Aug 2013 by Le Sourcier

This tip helps in using font icons as ImageSource.

Number Only Behavior for WPF

1 Oct 2015 by Clifford Nelson

Presents a behavior to prevent entry of anything but digits into a control

WPF Disabled Items Behaviour

6 Aug 2016 by Clifford Nelson

This tip presents a way to have disabled items in your ComboBox

SelectedItems Behavior for ListBox and MultiSelector

26 Sep 2017 by Clifford Nelson

A behavior that allows the developer to bind an IList to SelectedItems of a ListBox or MultiSelector.

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

Very Friendly Enum Binding In WPF

11 Jan 2016 by hesido

A super simple method for listing Enum members in WPF using databinding

WPF ExceptionViewer

2 Oct 2012 by MarkLTX

A WPF window for displaying exceptions, nested inner exceptions, and their properties using a tree and rich text.

Highlight dates on a WPF Calendar

20 Feb 2013 by Lars Pehrsson

Highligting and marking indvidual dates in a WPF Calendar

CalendarExtender

Yes, You Can Move TFS 2013 WorkItems Between Projects! But, your TFS Warehousing will Break, and Microsoft Support will No Longer Talk to You.

19 Jan 2018 by ergohack

This roguish way of moving a WorkItem, directly 'in-place', through SQL leaves all of the previous data associations intact, but portends issues with future major updates and current TFS Data Warehousing.

Simple Behavior to Allow Zooming and Dragging a Contained Control

16 Aug 2017 by Clifford Nelson

This is a simple behavior that can be attached to a ContentControl and allows zooming and dragging the Content.

WPF Behavior to Ensure a ToggleButton/CheckBox is Selected

4 Apr 2018 by Clifford Nelson

This behavior will require that for any Group of ToggleButton/Checkbox controls that are associated together, the user cannot set all to not IsChecked.

Airspace Solution

28 Feb 2022 by Saurabh Singh _

A simple approach to handle Airspace problem

List Only Files Created or Modified Yesterday in C#

27 Apr 2019 by OriginalGriff

This is an alternative for "List Only Files Created or Modified Yesterday in C#"

WPF DatePicker Background Fix

6 Jun 2012 by Clifford Nelson

A little trick that will more completely fill the DatePicker background from the code-behind.

Modifying the Date Attributes of a File

6 Aug 2013 by d.moncada

Change the accessed, modified, and created date attributes of a file

Generative Art IV: Distribute Points With Poisson

10 Jan 2015 by dietmar schoder

Poisson disc algorithm: fundamental C# classes and methods for the artwork production in the area of generative art.

WPF Controls Color Customization

6 Jul 2017 by Alexander Sharykin

No more Template copies

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

WPF Behavior to Give Buttons the Capability to Add, Remove and Reorder Contents of a ListBox

3 Mar 2019 by Clifford Nelson

This tip presents a behavior that will allow buttons to control the items in a WPF Selector (or ListBox) control.

ChatGPT API in C# WPF / XAML / MVVM

16 Feb 2024 by Peter Sun (247)

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

WPF Objects Model Poster

3 Jul 2013 by ntg123

Entire WPF's objects model image.

WPF MVVM Binding for Multiple Radio Buttons

12 Aug 2014 by Jdarmanovich

WPF MVVM Binding for Multiple Radio Buttons and Win 8 Metro Theme

The Blum Micali Algorithm and Cryptographically Secure PRNGs (CSPRNGs)

23 Sep 2014 by Cryptonite

The Blum Micali algorithm provides for a cryptographically secure PRNG (pseudo random number generator).

Markup Extension for Generic classes

31 Jan 2015 by Mayur Shah

Markup Extension that allows you to declare Generic classes in Xaml

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

WPF TextBox with Animated Overflow

8 Jul 2016 by User 10711509

A custom WPF TextBox whose height is animated when the text overflows.

Draggable Popup

5 Jan 2017 by Clifford Nelson

This is a simple popup that includes drag capability. The code should be helpful to anyone looking to create a control drag capability.

WPF Paged UniformGrid ItemsControl

7 Feb 2017 by Clifford Nelson

This tip presents a control that is derived from the ItemsControl that uses a UniformGrid to display.

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.

WPF Behavior to close a Popup with MouseLeave

3 Apr 2018 by Clifford Nelson

Normally a popup will stay open until explicitly closed. The Behavior will close the Popup if the mouse is clicked within or outside the Popup area or leaves the Popup area.

How to Easily Write a User's Guide for Your Application using Different File Extensions

26 May 2018 by Vladan.Obradovic

How to easily write a user's guide for your application using different file extensions

WPF Select All Focus Behavior

20 Jun 2018 by Clifford Nelson

This behavior will select the entire text when a TextBox or PasswordBox gains focus

Data Virtualization using DataGrid

30 Oct 2018 by Carsten Breum

Data Virtualization example with a pagesize and async data request

Setting non-numeric grid row/column sizes in WPF/Silverlight

14 Apr 2010 by Nish Nishant

John, here's a simpler way to do this. This will also handle strings like "3*" which are valid grid length values in Xaml.private RowDefinition MakeRowDefinition(string height){ RowDefinition rowDef = new RowDefinition(); GridLengthConverter converter = new...

Make OnPropertyChanged events safe for refactoring

4 Oct 2011 by Jeremy Hutchinson

Use OnPropertyChanged events without Magic Strings

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...

LinesGrid control - An easy way to draw a grid in WPF

13 Nov 2012 by maximaximum

The article describes how to draw a grid of vertical and horizontal lines in WPF.

Syrilium.Caching

19 Mar 2015 by Hrvoje Batrnek

Easy and seamless caching implementation of any virtual method in any class

Full Service SQLite for WPF (Including File Handling)

19 Jun 2015 by ergohack

System.Data.SQLite is great, but was missing some BLOB support. Switching to the native source project was easier than expected and provided significant functionality benefits.

WPF/MVVM Application for showing SystemColors list

4 Sep 2015 by Igor Sorokin

In this article I would like to describe simple WPF application for showing System.Windows.SystemColors list.

String Format ValueConverter

9 Aug 2015 by Clifford Nelson

This tip provides an alternate way to combine data with text in a WPF control using a ValueConverter that could be considered easier.

Support Desk Day 1 of n

19 Dec 2015 by ryanba29

This is a multi day project using ASP.NET Web API for the server and WPF MVVM for the client.

Support Desk Day 3 of n

29 Dec 2015 by ryanba29

First Draft. This is day three of a multi day project using ASP.NET Web API for the server and WPF MVVM for the client.

How to "Rotate" a WPF Window?

1 Mar 2016 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

In response to an interesting Quick Questions & Answers Inquirer's request, I'm showing how to create an impression of window rotation in a simple way

Show Gridlines on canvas , With Size Slider ,WPF

29 Jun 2016 by Praveen_Kumar Gupta

with the help of this article developer can add gridlines on canvas , and with slider control resize them easily

WPF Exclusive CheckBox Behavior with GroupName

17 Oct 2017 by Clifford Nelson

A Behavior is presented that will ensure that only one CheckBox (ToggleButton) will be checked with the same GroupName within the visual tree of the control to which this behavior is attached.

Using WPF Behavior to Reduce Loading Time

18 Apr 2018 by Clifford Nelson

I had a situation where a control appearing was significantly affected by the initialization of the UserControls. This behavior fixed my problem.

Self-Cleanable Collection and Self-Cleanable Event

27 Jan 2020 by Vassili Kravtchenko-Berejnoi

Use of System.WeakReference for self-cleanable registration of (short-life) objects

garbage-collection

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

FireBug like debugging tool for WPF

6 Apr 2011 by Mahmudul Haque Azad

I found a better alternative of snoop... WPF Inspector! http://wpfinspector.codeplex.com/[^]

Thread Safe Improvement for ObservableCollection

2 Jul 2012 by Clifford Nelson

Why didn’t Microsoft provide this in the ObservableCollection?

Designer Debugging in WinRT

9 May 2013 by Vinoth Kumar J

Designer debugging in WinRT

Developing WPF Applications to Choose Best FontFamily and Display String (Text) for UI Elements

25 Sep 2013 by Punamchand Dhuppad

In this tip we will talk about how to apply the same font style to TextBlock and Glyphs controls from code-behind.

Multilanguage Switcher from File WPF

3 Nov 2013 by carcabot

Multi Language Switcher Dynamically written in WPF VB.NET using XMLDataProvider

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.

10 Oct 2014 by Gerardo Recinto

Virtualization of RAM & Disk for high-speed, low-footprint & scalable data caching

Generative Art III: Work With Image Tiles

2 Jan 2015 by dietmar schoder

Image sections and images: fundamental C# classes and methods for the artwork production in the area of generative art.

WPF Listbox and Combobox MVVM "Binding" Enum

6 Jan 2016 by Luis Manuel Prospero Mano Batista

Another simple way to bind one Enumeration to a Combobox or to a Listbox

Undo/Redo Redirection for WPF

6 Apr 2017 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Focused TextBox blocks Undo/Redo invocation of other components, but the problem can be solved comprehensively

WPF RadioButton Switched Content Control

2 Sep 2017 by Clifford Nelson

Presents a very simple control with an IsChecked property that allows definition of two different contents depending of if IsChecked property value is true or false

ImageWallViewer

29 Dec 2017 by wim4you

Show UniformGrid and scroll through a few thousand images, UI virtualization

WPF Behavior to Reset RadioButtons on VisibilityChanged

2 Apr 2018 by Clifford Nelson

This tip provides a behavior that will reset all RadioButton controls within a Control that has this behavior when the Visibility changes.

WPF ValueConverter to Convert to Correct Type

5 Apr 2018 by Clifford Nelson

Normally, there is no need to ensure that types exactly match when using a Binding. For instance, the Control property double to and int in a ViewModel

Flexible WPF XAML ToggleButton/RadioButton/CheckBox reset behavior

27 Apr 2018 by Clifford Nelson

This is a behavior that that will reset ToggleButton derived controls to false (or a specified default value) when the container's visibility becomes false.

A Desktop App that Works Unchanged for WPF or WinForms

16 Nov 2020 by Erik Nagel

Usable demo demonstrating some aspects of application architecture

Setting non-numeric grid row/column sizes in WPF/Silverlight

22 May 2010 by #realJSOP

Programatically set grid row/column sizes (yes, even "Auto", "*", and "X*" - thanks Nish).

WPF TreeView SelectedItemChanged called twice

9 Jun 2011 by Kanwal Shehzad

How to avoid WPF TreeView SelectedItemChanged being called twice

Filtered DropDown ComboBox

2 Jun 2012 by Clifford Nelson

A rather quick and dirty way of creating a filtered combo box in WPF.

Displaying Busy Control in WPF using MVVM

23 Apr 2013 by Fitim Skenderi

Displaying an adorner that contains a control on top of another control in WPF

DragSource - A WPF drag and drop helper

17 Jul 2013 by JO Hyeong-Ryeol

Introduces the DragSource class in the Nicenis project.

Multicultural Code in VB.net and WPF

18 Feb 2014 by Shabra

How to use Resx files to internationalize your code

Strings To Colours

17 Jun 2014 by cjb110

A String To Brush Converter for WPF/Silverlight

MVVM Taskbar Notifier

20 Jun 2014 by NobsterTheLobster

Implements a taskbar notifier using an invisible window and a popup control

Fancy Busy Handling with IDisposable and IProgress

23 Oct 2014 by Thomas Mahlberg

This tip describes how to handle BusyIndication and progress report in an MVVM project for several scenarios.

Using Integer Instead of Enum in XAML

26 Sep 2015 by Piyush Manharlal

Using integer instead of Enum for ComboBox and Radio Button in XAML

Using a TestValueConverter to Understand a Bound Object

21 Nov 2015 by Clifford Nelson

Using a breakpoint in this WPF Value Converter which basically does nothing can be of assistance in binding when the object is not well understood.

Difference Between Grid and StackPanel

17 Dec 2015 by Umer Qureshi

A tip explaining the difference between Stackpanel and a Grid layout in WPF

WPF Popup Enumerated Button Control

24 Mar 2016 by Clifford Nelson

WPF popup enumerated button control

How to Open a Place in Google Maps Without a Dev. Key

21 Apr 2016 by ryanba29

I am going to demonstrate how to convert an address to a latitude and longitude using Google Maps Geocode. Then take the latitude and longitude and build a Uri that opens that place in Google Maps.

Implementing Unity's Coroutines on Winforms and WPF Applications

6 Jun 2017 by Nick Tziamihas

In this article, we show how you can execute asynchronous code on the main thread without async, by replicating Unity's coroutine framework.

WPF Behavior to Set Control Value to DefaultValue on Visibility Changed

2 May 2018 by Clifford Nelson

The tip provides a behavior that will set a control to a default value when the Visibility changes

Generic MVVM Data Exchange between Model and ViewModel

31 Jul 2019 by #realJSOP

Make data exchange in MVVM easy on yourself

Remove border from right and bottom of WPF full-screen window

28 Feb 2011 by jmix90

Creating a full-screen window in WPF is quite simple, set WindowState to Maximized and WindowStyle to None. However, a border is still visible on the bottom and on the right sides. In this post we'll discover how to remove it.

Different ways to bind a data in Codebind from XAML

7 Jan 2011 by Venkatesh Mookkan

Databinding Concept in WPF

Track Mouse Position in WPF UIElement

22 Aug 2011 by VallarasuS

Changing the BackGround of an UI Element based on MousePosition

An alternate implementation to Paste data into the WPF DataGrid

28 Aug 2011 by Reto Ravasio

Howto Paste and not make a mess

SuspendedButton - How to suspend WPF Button's Click event

5 Oct 2011 by Shmuel Zang

This tip shows how we can extend a Button control to support suspension of its Click event, in order to perform some animations before the Click event is raised.

WPF Splash Screen With Minimum Duration

24 Apr 2013 by Lee Reid

How to make a splash screen appear for a minimum duration with very little code

Defer Any Algorithm

23 Jun 2013 by Aaron Amberman

Defer algorithms to run once within a given time span

Restricting WPF applications to be operate in two window sizes

19 Feb 2014 by Hamid Shahid Aijazi

Demonstrates how to restrict your WPF application to a specific window size while keeping it maximizable.