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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.

Multiplatform Avalonia .NET Framework Programming Basic Concepts in Easy Samples

by Nick Polyak

This article explains the most important and basic concepts of Avalonia WPF-like multiplatform UI package.

ListBox Styling (Part 3 - Additional Templates) in Expression Blend and Silverlight

by Alan Beasley

Explanation and examples of Additional Templates and Generated Content of a ListBox. Covering Layout, Transitions, and Animation.

Conceptual Children: A powerful new concept in WPF

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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ChatGPT API in C# WPF / XAML / MVVM

by Peter Sun (247)

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

Xamarin Forms - Validations Made Simple

by Chandru BK

This article will assume you have basic knowledge of C# and Xamarin Forms and shows how to implement the Xamarin Form Validations using simple Data Annotations applied on the models.

Convert a Win32 Project to WinUI3 Automatically

by Michael Chourdakis

A set of tools to create a new VCXPROJ file automatically

Customizing ListBox for a Smooth Animated Navigation Bar in WPF

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.

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Using CSS Selectors for Styling in WPF

17 May 2009 by Colin Eberhardt

This technical blog post details a novel technique for leveraging the power of CSS selectors within WPF.

WPF Drag and Drop using Behavior

11 Nov 2020 by DotNetLead.com

Drag and drop behaviour in WPF

Knockout Style Observables in XAML

17 Jul 2012 by Daniel Vaughan

Implementing field level change notification in WPF, and how a Lambda Expression can be used to specify a composite property that raises change notifications automatically whenever an associated property changes.

IDataErrorInfo with Fluent Validation

9 Dec 2014 by adityaswami89

Article on Validation in XAML applications with Fluent technique

UIAutomation, Coded UI Tests, AutomationPeer, and WPF/Silverlight Custom Controls

25 Mar 2011 by jmix90

In this post, we will see how to make a custom control fully useable in a Coded UI Tests scenario.

Styles in Silverlight

14 Apr 2011 by Manas_Patnaik

How to create a Style and attach it to a control in Silverlight.

16 Apr 2009 by Pete O'Hanlon

How to have fun with fonts in WPF

How to Reposition a Silverlight Child Window?

21 Nov 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to Reposition a Silverlight Child Window?

How to Implement Template Binding in Silverlight Custom Control?

6 Apr 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to implement template binding in Silverlight custom control

Multi Column Text support in Silverlight 5

17 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Learn about Multi Column Text support in Silverlight 5 with a simple example

How to Categorize Control Properties for XAML View Inside Blend and Visual Studio?

10 Jul 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Organizing custom control properties inside Visual Studio and Expression Blend

Expression-blend

Using Silverlight Chart Controls With SharePoint 2010

25 Nov 2010 by Abhijit Jana

How to use Silverlight Chart Control with SharePoint 2010

Color Highlighting in Visual Studio XAML page using ReSharper 6

2 Mar 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Color Highlighting in Visual Studio XAML page using ReSharper 6

Tips: How to use Gradient Color Picker in Expression Blend?

13 Apr 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to use Gradient Color Picker in Expression Blend?

Tips: Concatenating strings in Silverlight XAML using StringFormat

10 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Using StringFormat to concatenate strings in Silverlight XAML.

How to Create a Different Circular Loader using XAML?

22 Jul 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to create a different circular loader using XAML?

How to Create a Circular Loader using XAML?

22 Jul 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to create a circular loader using XAML?

How to get rid of the XAML Design view inside Visual Studio IDE?

7 Aug 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to get rid of the XAML Design view inside Visual Studio IDE?

Working with Default FontSize in Windows Phone 7 Applications

18 Aug 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this post, we will learn about various font sizes defined in the default style library of Windows Phone 7, so you don't have to define them again and can reuse those styles which will be standard sizes all over any Phone 7 Application

Using .resw files with UWP Compiled Bindings

1 Oct 2015 by Daniel Vaughan

IntroductionWith UWP and WinRT, Microsoft introduced a new means for localizability, which differs significantly from the method employed in Silverlight and .NET desktop apps.

Adding Splash screen (Part 2)

1 May 2017 by Abu_yanal

Adding Splash screen

Validation in Silverlight

26 Apr 2010 by Timmy Kokke

Getting started with the basics of validation in Silverlight

RegisterName for StoryBoards in WPF (NameScopes)

16 Mar 2011 by Abhishek Sur

RegisterName for StoryBoards in WPF (NameScopes)

Data Templates Implementation Outside of WPF

28 May 2014 by Nick Polyak

Data Templates implementation outside of WPF

What Are We Going to Build? (Part 0)

28 Feb 2017 by Abu_yanal

What are we going to build

Using T4 to Generate Pack URIs for XAML Files

25 Nov 2009 by Daniel Vaughan

How to use T4 to generate Pack URIs for XAML files

Making the ApplicationBar bindable

14 Mar 2011 by rudigrobler

How to make the ApplicationBar bindable in a WP7 application.

Windows-Phone-7

WPF/Silverlight Content Ticker/News Ticker Control

20 May 2011 by Koder Hack

The ContentTicker control is a generic control that can be used to slide content.

Popup WPF Image with Drop Shadow

20 May 2011 by Aron Weiler

Make any image in WPF pop up and hit you in the face!

Getting WPF SizeChanged Events at Start-up when Using MVVM and DataContext

12 Jun 2011 by PeteBarber

It is critically important to make sure that a View's DataContext is properly created and attached before the underlying Window is displayed, otherwise initial events will be missed.

How to Crop an object using Expression Blend?

25 Aug 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Crop an object using Expression Blend

Using Label Class to Display Text in XNA, WPXNA (7)

14 Jul 2013 by zoyobar

Using Label class to display text in XNA

Windows-Phone-7

Using SceneLoader Class to Create Loading Screen in XNA, WPXNA (10)

30 Jun 2013 by zoyobar

Using SceneLoader class to create loading screen in XNA

Windows-Phone-7

Sending Notifications with Corona Updates to Thousands of Doctors (using Azure Notification Hub)

10 May 2020 by Gaston Verelst

How to send out regular notification updates using Azure Notification Hub

MVVM - Creating ViewModel : use XAML Power Toys (solution 2 of n).

7 Mar 2010 by jmix90

Here is the next episode of our serie MVVM - Creating ViewModel.

Building OpenPOS: Part 4 – SalesModule (Part 1)

1 Apr 2010 by rudigrobler

Building OpenPOS: SalesModule (Part 1)

OutlookBar for WPF & Silverlight

28 May 2010 by rudigrobler

OutlookBar for WPF & Silverlight

No scroll content of WPF XBAP in IFrame

19 May 2011 by Rahman Masudur

Avoiding scrolling for XBAP in IFrame.

WPF Dynamic TabControl – TabItems

16 Sep 2011 by kribo

WPF dynamic TabControl - TabItems

Power of Templates in Control Development Within Windows Presentation Foundation

31 Oct 2011 by Ashish Kaila

In this tutorial, I will take a practical example of a card game and illustrate how to model a playing card in WPF and define templates for defining visual aspect of the card as per the sign and the value of the card.

Binding Does Not a Dependency Property Make

3 Sep 2012 by Ivan Krivyakov

This simple trick stops the binding gremlins on their tracks, as only a dependency property can be their target.

Windows Store apps and the Authentication Broker

9 May 2013 by Paul_Wade

Windows Store apps and the Authentication Broker.

Using the CommandScene Class to Create Command Scenes in the XNA, WPXNA (12)

3 Jul 2013 by zoyobar

Using the CommandScene class to create command scenes in the XNA, WPXNA (12)

Windows-Phone-7

Hub Control in Blend

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.

Expression-blend

XAML Flyouts using Blend

9 Jul 2013 by Timmy Kokke

XAML Flyouts using Blend.

Using NPC and NPCManager to create NPC and Custom Ations in XNA, WPXNA (19)

27 Aug 2013 by zoyobar

Using NPC and NPCManager to create NPC and custom actions in XNA, WPXNA (19)

Windows-Phone-7

How to Build a Simple Toast Notification in #UWP Apps? (Part 1)

21 Jan 2016 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to build a simple Toast Notification in #UWP apps? (Part 1)

Windows-Phone-7

Genereting proxies during runtime using Reflection.Emit

25 Dec 2018 by n.podbielski

Reflection.Emit is very powerful tool. It creates IL code and since C# is converted into IL too, we have the same functionality as in C# and even more. It is very powerful and at the same time very complicated. Because of that it is worth to discuss how and for what it should be used.

XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2008 v5.0.0.1 Released

26 Oct 2009 by User 271009

XAML Power toys for Visual Studio 2008 v5.0.0.1 released

Inter-process Mediator

1 Apr 2010 by rudigrobler

Imagine for a second that you are writing an application like Outlook… let's call it MiMail.exe! This application is very basic and has 3 views that are relevant to me! I want to be able to see my mail, contacts and calendar!

Make Your WPF Buttons Color Hot-track!

1 Apr 2010 by rudigrobler

Make your WPF buttons color hot-track!

WPF: Merged dictionary parser depends on XML attribute order

13 Aug 2010 by Ivan Krivyakov

Attribute order should not matter in XAML, but sometimes it does...

Mahhala – WPF NotifyIcon

23 Aug 2010 by rudigrobler

WPF NotifyIcon

Skinning in WPF

8 Feb 2011 by Leom Burke

An approach to skinning in WPF using Merged Resource Dictionaries

Dynamically Bind Value Converters to Elements in XAML

24 Dec 2010 by Ashish Kaila

How to dynamically bind value converters to elements in XAML

Element Binding in Silverlight

12 Apr 2011 by Manas_Patnaik

Achieving a Twitter page like functionality using Element Binding in Silverlight.

Binding the WP7 ProgressIndicator in XAML

20 Jul 2011 by Daniel Vaughan

The custom ProgressIndicatorProxy provides a simple way to harness the new ProgressIndicator from your XAML.

Windows-Phone-7

MVVM ListBox Grouping

18 Jan 2012 by SteveAdey

This is an example to show the use of MVVM in creating a grouping listbox.

How To: Use leaderboards on Windows Phone with XPG

31 Jan 2012 by XPG Live

Use leaderboards on Windows Phone with XPG

A slightly less simple object browser for Windows phone 7

29 Jan 2012 by Don Kackman

A slightly less simple object browser for Windows phone 7

How To: Make XAML Content Globalizable When Using Value Converters

9 Jul 2012 by Paulo Morgado

How to make XAML Content Globalizable when using value converters

Windows-Phone-7

VisibilityControl – The Design

15 Oct 2012 by John Michael Hauck

In this post, I briefly discuss the design behind the VisibilityControl.

PanView - The Design

19 Oct 2012 by John Michael Hauck

Design of the PanView custom control discussing both the C# and XAML that achieves the desired functionality

Flattening a TransformGroup

22 Oct 2012 by John Michael Hauck

How to flatten a TransformGroup

CharmFrame – Adding CharmFlyout to Grid Apps

23 Oct 2012 by John Michael Hauck

Adding CharmFlyout to Grid Apps

CharmFlyout – The Design

29 Oct 2012 by John Michael Hauck

This post describes the design of the CharmFlyout custom control, discussing both the C# and XAML that achieves the desired functionality.

WPF Enumeration Data Provider

11 Feb 2013 by Stephen Brannan

WPF Enumeration Data Provider

Using the AudioManager Class to Play Sounds and Music in XNA, WPXNA (5)

30 May 2013 by zoyobar

Using the AudioManager class to play sounds and music in XNA, WPXNA (5)

Windows-Phone-7

Using HitArea Class for Hit Testing in XNA, WPXNA (6)

3 Jun 2013 by zoyobar

How to use HitArea class for hit testing in XNA, WPXNA

Windows-Phone-7

Using Button Class to Create Graphic Buttons in XNA, WPXNA (9)

24 Jun 2013 by zoyobar

How to use the Button class to create Graphic buttons in XNA, WPXNA

Windows-Phone-7

Using Anime Class to Create Animations in XNA, WPXNA(11)

1 Jul 2013 by zoyobar

Using Anime class to create animations in XNA, WPXNA (11)

Windows-Phone-7

Use the Bullet and BulletManager Classes to Create Bullets and Attack Targets in XNA, WPXNA (15)

24 Jul 2013 by zoyobar

Use the Bullet and BulletManager classes to create bullets and attack targets in XNA, WPXNA (15)

Windows-Phone-7

XAML: Binding To Nullable Enums With Friendly Names

3 Mar 2014 by Sacha Barber

XAML: Binding to nullable enums with friendly names

XAML: Event Handlers for Templated Items of Collection Controls

12 Apr 2014 by Alex Turok

XAML: Event Handlers for Templated Items of Collection Controls

Defining MessageDialogs in XAML

8 Jun 2014 by Samuel Cragg

Defining MessageDialogs in XAML

Static Grid, Dynamic Content – Part 2: The Stragglers

23 Oct 2015 by BC3Tech

Static Grid, Dynamic Content – Part 2: The Stragglers

Designing your Azure MySQL DB with a UWP Demo

15 Apr 2019 by Abdelrahman El Kinani

Azure MySQL DB, how to design it, basic UWP todo demo

Tips: Formatting Silverlight TextBlock Control

9 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

How to format Silverlight TextBlock control

Understanding MeasureOverride and ArrangeOverride

29 Sep 2015 by DotNetForAll

The article will take you through the layout process in WPF.

Binding the WP7 ProgressIndicator in XAML

26 Aug 2011 by Daniel Vaughan

The custom ProgressIndicatorProxy provides a simple way to harness the new ProgressIndicator from your XAML.

Windows-Phone-7

What is Character Spacing in Silverlight 5 Controls

13 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

What is Character spacing in Silverlight 5 controls

Unit of Work Design Pattern with Repository and Session

19 Oct 2014 by adityaswami89

This article will guide you if you want to create your own custom ORM or a wrapper over the ORM. This is only for demo towards the Unit of work pattern with Repository and a singleton Session class.

Building a control template/style for the tabControl to clone the office 2010 ribbon File look

8 Feb 2011 by erik_nl

Building a control template/style for the tabControl to clone the office 2010 ribbon File look

Tips & Tricks: Styling Caret of a Silverlight TextBox Control

10 Oct 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this small tip, I will guide you through changing the Style of Caret of a Silverlight TextBox control.

Binding and styling text to a RichTextBox in WPF

20 Jan 2011 by Leom Burke

Binding and styling text to a RichTextBox in WPF

A Customizable WPF MessageBox

31 May 2011 by Arik Poznanski

A Customizable WPF MessageBox

WPF: Animate Visibility Property - Update

13 Apr 2010 by Arik Poznanski

Back in this post I showed you how you can easily add a fade-in / fade-out effect to a UIElement that changes its Visibility property, using a simple attached property.Some people encountered a problem using this property when they bind the UIElement to a model which initially hides the control.

What is AppManifest.xaml in Silverlight?

7 May 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

AppManifest.xaml in Silverlight

Getting Started with Windows Phone and MVVM Light - Part 1 of 2

10 Sep 2012 by Shayne P Boyer

How to get started with Windows Phone and MVVM light

DependencyProperties or INotifyPropertyChanged ?

1 Mar 2010 by jmix90

When you want to make an object binding-aware you have two choices : implements INotifyPropertyChanged or creates DependencyProperties.

Lazy Load XAML content from External File and Vice Versa

3 Oct 2010 by Abhishek Sur

Load your XAML from external file or from String XML to start working on an existing application instantly using XamlReader and XamlWriter

Bind Markup Extension

25 Nov 2013 by Nick Polyak

I continue a series of blog posts about implementing WPF concepts outside of WPF.

WPF UIEventHub – MultiSelect and DragnDrop

26 Dec 2013 by Leung Yat Chun

I hope this rewrite can reduce the effort needed to implement other touch based code and other gesture.

Mahhala – Fluent Ribbon Control Suite

20 Jun 2010 by rudigrobler

Mahhala (isiZulu word for free or without charge) is a new series that showcase some of the cool free WPF/Silverlight controls available… “You can learn a lot by reading other people's source code. That's the idea behind this series.

Implementing INotifyPropertyChanged

17 Mar 2010 by Arun Jacob

This article shows how to implement INotifyPropertyChanged.

Getting Started with Windows Phone and MVVM Light - Part 2 of 2

10 Sep 2012 by Shayne P Boyer

Getting started with Windows Phone and MVVM Light

Much Improved .NET 4.0 WPF Text Rendering

22 Oct 2009 by User 271009

Much improved .NET 4.0 WPF text rendering

MVVM using POCOs with .NET 4.0 and the DynamicViewModel Class

27 Dec 2010 by Nikos Baxevanis

This post aims to provide a way to implement the Model View ViewModel (MVVM) architectural pattern using Plain Old CLR Objects (POCOs) while taking full advantage of .NET 4.0 DynamicObject Class.

IsCrossPagePostBack: Cross page PostBack

29 Jul 2011 by Brij

How to make use of the IsCrossPagePostBack property.

[Performance tips] Use the system shadows instead of your own

22 Sep 2010 by jmix90

A fast and easy tip about shadows and performance