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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.
by Nick Polyak
This article explains the most important and basic concepts of Avalonia WPF-like multiplatform UI package.
by Alan Beasley
Explanation and examples of Additional Templates and Generated Content of a ListBox. Covering Layout, Transitions, and Animation.
by Dr. WPF
This article describes a new approach by which an element can remove its visual and logical relationships to its children while maintaining a conceptual parental relationship with those children.

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23 Nov 2009 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.
21 Dec 2023 by Nick Polyak
This article explains the most important and basic concepts of Avalonia WPF-like multiplatform UI package.
6 May 2010 by Alan Beasley
Explanation and examples of Additional Templates and Generated Content of a ListBox. Covering Layout, Transitions, and Animation.
6 Apr 2008 by Dr. WPF
This article describes a new approach by which an element can remove its visual and logical relationships to its children while maintaining a conceptual parental relationship with those children.
6 May 2007 by Josh Smith
Reviews a pattern which enables new possibilities for data binding.
15 Jul 2018 by Ajcek84
Open source library for music engraving in desktop, mobile and web applications
5 Sep 2011 by Todd Davis
How to bind an enum to radiobuttons in Silverlight/WPF
21 Nov 2019 by Leif Simon Goodwin
This article presents a simple WPF Carousel Control
15 Sep 2014 by Daniel Vaughan
Create best-in-breed cross-platform MVVM apps using Calcium for Xamarin.Forms.
30 Apr 2009 by Roman Kiss
This article describes a design, implementation and tooling of model driven WorkflowServices logically centralized in the Repository and physically decentralized for their runtime projecting.
23 Apr 2009 by Jeff Karlson
Learn how to build the body part of your DataGrid using Silverlight and the GOA Toolkit. Implement Virtual Mode, work with hierarchical data, and build cells and cells navigation.
4 Nov 2013 by Sacha Barber
A look at an excellent WinRT MVVM framework.
24 Aug 2016 by Serge Desmedt
(Yet Another) Investigation of WPF triggers
8 Nov 2010 by Gary.Miller.WPF
Final article in the series on how to make an animated 3D robot in WPF using C# code
26 Apr 2010 by Alan Beasley
How to Style the Control Template of a ListBox in a small MVVM application
15 May 2009 by Tawani Anyangwe
Binding a WPF ListView to a DataMatrix with columns determined at runtime
31 Jan 2010 by Arik Poznanski
The question this posts tries to address is: Where to put value converters?
29 Aug 2021 by Nick Polyak
This article describes a new multiplatform Docking framework - UniDock
21 Dec 2023 by Nick Polyak
This article covers important concepts of Avalonia/WPF needed for programming and software design
30 Sep 2014 by Bernardo Castilho
The article presents an ICollectionView class that supports filtering and sorting.
21 Oct 2013 by _Noctis_
Sorting out the confusion about these properties, and providing a demo app for them
31 May 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
Silverlight 4 has the feature to talk with Excel or any other application using the COM API. In this article, I will guide you to understand this feature step-by-step.
19 Feb 2021 by Leif Simon Goodwin
A 3D surface plot control in C#
5 Mar 2009 by Ernest Laurentin
Full-fledged ATL Windowless ActiveX Container. Ideal for hosting Windows Media Player, Transparent Flash and Silverlight Animations.
1 Mar 2010 by The Manoj Kumar
A Visual Studio 2010 extension for creating numbered bookmarks.
9 Mar 2012 by Barry Lapthorn
A XAML-only font combobox.
17 Feb 2015 by DrABELL
Employment Tax computation and Payroll management app for Windows 8: contest entry
2 Apr 2018 by Clifford Nelson
This gives the code to create a cursor from a character in a font.
1 Sep 2009 by Roman Kiss
This article describes a design, implementation and usage of the custom service operation invoker for invoking a xaml workflow. It is based on the upcoming Microsoft .NET 4 Technology.
21 May 2012 by Dave Kerr
Write your first MVVM application in ten minutes using the Apex SDK!
13 Jun 2012 by Tefik Becirovic
This article describes the SlidingPanoramaControl, a custom WPF control developed to view and rotate 360° panoramic images all around.
12 Mar 2014 by Petr Ivankov
Interoperability between 3D graphics and calculations
11 Oct 2011 by Enrique Albert
Baseline WCF Distribution Layer - Decoupling of WCF Services and ViewModels.
24 Oct 2010 by Nithyaduruvan, Sathishkumar_P
This article describes about the export functionality of Excel sheet from WPF datagrid.
16 Nov 2018 by nvasilev1
Often, when WPF developers have to write a custom window, they find themselves drowning in countless articles, blog posts, and StackOverflow threads each depicting a different approach to the problem.
4 Feb 2020 by Michael Chourdakis
A quick way to add UWP controls into plain Win32 apps for Windows 10
17 Mar 2013 by Weidong Shen
This article describes the project setup of building a WPF sample application with Self-Tracking Entity Generator and Visual Studio 2012.
19 Jul 2009 by Jammer
An article showing an extremely simple implementation of CompositeWPF.
13 Nov 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»
Customized Scrolling in Silverlight using Expression Blend
27 Jun 2012 by freedeveloper
A small control to control paging in Windows Presentation Foundation.
19 Jan 2013 by padmore
Getting started recording audio to WAV with WASAPI in Windows Store apps
13 Aug 2013 by Florian Rappl
Creating a highly extensible presentation app with multi-user and device integration for tablets.
31 Mar 2018 by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira
An entertainment app written in C# language for the Xamarin Forms and Android, using a SQLite local database
21 Dec 2007 by Bruno Sonnino
This article will show how to use data binding and styles to show data coming from a Microsoft SQL database using the new object-relational model introduced in Visual Studio 2008, LINQ to SQL, allowing grouping, sorting and filtering of data with almost no code.
3 Nov 2010 by Gary.Miller.WPF
Part one of a series on how to make an animated 3D robot in WPF using C# code
19 Jan 2012 by Ratish Philip
A Metro style custom window.
2 Aug 2012 by Philip Stuyck
Structuring your XAML source files by using dictionaries.
31 Jul 2017 by Dirk Bahle
This article explains how to take advantage from look-less WPF controls through inheritance
14 Oct 2021 by Juan Francisco Morales Larios
An easy way to copy and paste data between WPF application and Excel
22 Jan 2018 by Dirk Bahle
Implementing text highlighting in a WPF TextBlock control with MVVM
25 Apr 2018 by Clifford Nelson
Concept to create a Singleton for WPF MVVM Binding, and using Weak reference for the property that is bound to.
6 Oct 2008 by Modesty Zhang
Port Cairngorm 2.2.1 to Silverlight 2 Beta 2. Includes all source code and a sample application.
10 Mar 2010 by Nic_Roche
This article demonstrates breaking out of the shell with module development and using Caliburn actions.
2 Dec 2012 by Ratish Philip
A Windows 8 Metro App showcasing an innovative jigsaw puzzle game while utilising the powerful features of an Ultrabook.
24 Aug 2016 by Serge Desmedt
(Yet Another) Investigation of WPF bindings
17 Dec 2015 by Snesh Prajapati
To work with Regions effectively in a Prism based WPF application, we must understand the relationship between WPF Controls, RegionAdapters and Regions. In this articles, we will learn about process of Region creation and critical role played by RegionAdapters with a demo application.
22 Sep 2017 by Dirk Bahle
A list of advanced tips & tricks on Virtualized WPF TreeViews
8 Dec 2017 by Dirk Bahle, Alaa Ben Fatma
Tips & tricks on visting and searching nodes in WPF TreeViews
25 Oct 2012 by Enrique Albert
WPF Validation using the IDataErrorInfo interface combined with Validation attributes
12 Feb 2012 by kishore Gaddam
MultiBinding allows us to bind a binding target property to a list of source properties and then apply logic to produce a value with the given inputs.
17 Sep 2014 by Daniel Vaughan
Create a Xamarin Forms tabbed page or carousel page by binding to a collection of ViewModels; extending beyond the current capabilities of Xamarin Forms.
27 Aug 2018 by amitthk
RunCmd is a windows batch file editor,runner utility. It can be used to automate our repetitive tasks using commandline batch files.
1 Apr 2018 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
The mystery of Benham’s top invented in 1895, as well as Fechner color effect, remains not fully uncovered so far. WPF and XAML help to accelerate the research greatly.
5 Dec 2023 by vickyqu115
How to create a day and night theme switch button using WPF
21 Apr 2009 by Richard Gavel
Part 3 of a series describing the creation of a WPF based appointment control with the Outlook look and feel.
17 Jun 2009 by Sacha Barber
ImageBrush in WPF
14 Feb 2010 by Nicolas Dorier
A design pattern to easily bind or animate properties that do not exist on an element, and which works in both Silverlight and WPF
24 Nov 2011 by Clifford Nelson
A generic WPF/Silverlight value converter.
9 Apr 2015 by Dirk Bahle, Alex Maitland
How to implement a ResourceHandler in CefSharp to display custom HTML in WPF
7 Jul 2020 by Meshack Musundi
An overview of MvvmCross for WPF application development
27 Sep 2023 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
How to generate C# code from XAML? But why? Anyway, this question is answered, but this is not the main part…
26 Mar 2018 by Massimiliano Brugnerotto
This article explains how to implement the drag & drop of a custom item within a ListView control with WPF technology.
27 Sep 2019 by Mohamed Kalmoua
In this article, I will discuss a WiFi password recovery and management tool that I created in WPF using Visual Studio 2019.
29 Jun 2009 by Pete O'Hanlon
Binding passwords
23 Jan 2012 by Gil Yoder
In this article, I describe how to display data from a simple XML file in a WPF TreeView control.
10 Jun 2012 by Roman Kiss
This article describes the design and implementation of the Message Mediator for connectivity pipeline hosted on the Windows Azure.
31 Jul 2012 by Shuqian Ying
The source code and a simple demo program for a plug-in in Microsoft Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) that provides visual display of email messages.
23 Aug 2012 by Harald Heide Gundersen
Geocoordinate positioned Xna model viewable thru Photocamera
14 May 2015 by DaveMathews
Using SIML, a language designed for Digital Assistants, to create a Natural Language Interface to an SQL database.
23 Mar 2016 by Rubén Hinojosa Chapel
Prototype for a plugin architecture based on the Prism Library and the Modern UI for WPF (MUI) toolkit
20 Jan 2017 by Swati 191288
In this article let’s explore the different types of DataBinding Expressions provided by WPF.
3 Jan 2013 by Young Ye
This article is the part 3 of the data display Performance Optimization series. It talks about performing multiple searches against the virtual list.
7 Oct 2012 by Briti Sundar
This app will help users to quickly add different type of effects on a picture like sketch, oldphoto, emboss, nightvision, cartoon, oilify, etc.
8 Nov 2012 by Nrupal Prattipati
Starting with Recipe creation and sharing, to a full fledged Kitchen Assistant
30 Jan 2014 by Roman Kiss
This article describes how a Windows Azure BizTalk Service Bridge pipeline can be extended for message mediation by Workflow (VETER + WORKFLOW Pattern).
24 Aug 2016 by Serge Desmedt
(Yet Another) Investigation of WPF resources
17 Jul 2015 by Ben Thorner
A tutorial on RadialControls - a library of circular controls for Windows 8 Apps.
21 Feb 2019 by Chandru BK
This article will assume that you have basic knowledge of C#, XAML Styles and Xamarin Forms and shows how to implement theming using simple styles.
4 Jan 2023 by Alexey A. Popov 2
A simple implementation of Miller columns (cascading columns) control
21 Mar 2022 by Peter Huber SG
WpfTestbench helps you to write sophisticated test windows for your WPF controls with few lines of code
31 May 2019 by Michael Chourdakis
Replace GetOpenFileName/GetSaveFileName with a new cloud API!
8 Jul 2011 by Clifford Nelson
A special class is needed to support binding a set of flags to a View.
3 Jan 2013 by Young Ye
This article solve the performance issue while loading and displaying large amounts of data by using a virtual list with paged data technique.
13 Apr 2013 by Azim Zahir
Creating a spell check enabled RichText editor.
23 Jun 2012 by igkutikov
Binding Properties of non GUI elements that still implement INotify
15 Oct 2012 by Talha Naqvi
Unconventional uses of Sensors!
16 Apr 2013 by Muhammed Anseer K K
Creating a metro style application with WCF
8 Oct 2015 by DrABELL
App implements bi-directional semantic phone number-to-text converter, extended with novel Lottery+Quiz engine