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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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XAML

.NET 3.5 SP1 StringFormat Binding Property Weirdness (A Rant)

17 Jun 2009 by Sacha Barber

This is a rant about .NET 3.5 SP1 StringFormat Binding Property

.NET Framework 3.0 Buffet

27 Dec 2006 by Anil Kr. Sharma

.NET Framework 3.0 primer.

.NET String Resources

19 Apr 2012 by Jani Giannoudis

Concepts and patterns for the handling of strings in multilingual applications.

10 Cool Buttons for Download in Expression Blend & Silverlight

13 Jul 2010 by Alan Beasley

The WC Door button, covering all the missing skills needed to create the buttons shown in my first tutorial. As well as all 10 buttons for download!

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.

3D in XAML

20 Oct 2004 by Livid

A guide to using 3D tags in Mobiform and Longhorn XAML.

11 Jul 2008 by Seshi

State space search algorithms - implemented with C# .NET 3.0 WPF

artificial-intelligence

A "little snake" leads us through the most important features of the Windows Phone 7

29 Jan 2011 by 69Icaro

Analyzing the Snake game, we'll study an application for the new Windows Phone 7 platform, focusing on localization, Inversion of Control, navigation, transition effects, triggers, Isolated Storage, audio and we'll also use Blend to create a rounded glowing button, and other things...

Windows-Phone-7

A Beginner's Guide to Silverlight

11 Dec 2011 by Raj Lal

Chapter 11 of "Fun with Silverlight 4" More information at http://silverlightfun.com

web_development

A better panel for data binding to a WrapPanel in WPF

18 Jan 2009 by adam.cataldo

An article on a useful extension to the WrapPanel control.

A Better Way to Share Image Assets in Xamarin Forms

13 Nov 2014 by Daniel Vaughan

Learn how to combine T4 and a custom markup extension to share and consume image files between projects.

A better WPF-Browser-Control (IE-Wrapper)

16 Aug 2013 by Robert Köpferl

This article provides a better browser control than the one included in WPF

A bit of binding - MVVM'ing bytes/bits based data

12 Oct 2012 by ntg123

Different approaches for implementing MVVM over byte/bit based data.

A C# 3D Surface Plot Control

19 Feb 2021 by Leif Simon Goodwin

A 3D surface plot control in C#

A Chained Property Observer

8 Mar 2011 by Sacha Barber

Set of utility classes to observe a chain of INotifyPropertyChanged objects.

A ContentDialog in a WPF Desktop Application

24 Feb 2017 by Dirk Bahle

In a dialog with WPF

A Custom WPF Carousel Control

21 Nov 2019 by Leif Simon Goodwin

This article presents a simple WPF Carousel Control

A Developer's First Look at Visual Studio 2010

19 Sep 2009 by jebarson

New features of Visual Studio 2010 discussed

A Drag and Drop ListLauncher with fold-able Groups

3 Mar 2017 by wim4you

Launch additionally a limited number of hand picked Programs, Documents or Folders from the taskbar

A dynamic Rehosted Workflow Designer for WF 4

29 Jul 2012 by Winfried Ripken

This article presents a framework allowing you to integrate the workflow designer more easily in your own applications

A Glass Orb Button in Silverlight

31 Mar 2009 by Timmy Kokke

A detailed walkthrough on how to style a basic Silverlight button into a "Glass Orb" button.

A Guided Tour of WPF – Part 1 (XAML)

19 Apr 2007 by Josh Smith

A guided tour of the Windows Presentation Foundation, one feature at a time.

A Guided Tour of WPF – Part 2 (Layout)

4 Apr 2007 by Josh Smith

A guided tour of the Windows Presentation Foundation, one feature at a time.

A Guided Tour of WPF – Part 3 (Data binding)

4 Apr 2007 by Josh Smith

A guided tour of the Windows Presentation Foundation, one feature at a time.

A Guided Tour of WPF – Part 4 (Data templates and triggers)

7 Apr 2007 by Josh Smith

A guided tour of the Windows Presentation Foundation, one feature at a time.

A Guided Tour of WPF – Part 5 (Styles)

13 Apr 2007 by Josh Smith

A guided tour of the Windows Presentation Foundation, one feature at a time.

A Help Infrastructure For WinRT Phones and Apps

1 Sep 2015 by David Maw

A way to embed help pages within a Windows RT or Phone program

Windows-Phone-8

A Highlightable WPF/MVVM TextBlock in C#/VB.Net

22 Jan 2018 by Dirk Bahle

Implementing text highlighting in a WPF TextBlock control with MVVM

A Jump Start to the World of WPF

21 Jun 2008 by mariocatch

Basic concepts ranging from XAML layout, to C#->XAML communication and databinding.

A master-detail view with Entity Framework

22 Jul 2016 by Mohamed Kalmoua

In this article, I will create a master-detail view using the Entity Framework.

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 MIME Message Viewing Library in WPF

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.

A Moan About ImageBrush In WPF

17 Jun 2009 by Sacha Barber

ImageBrush in WPF

A More Flexible and Secure Method to Configure Silverlight Applications Using the Web.config File from ASP.NET

3 Feb 2010 by Dr. Song Li

This article introduces a more flexible and secure method to configure Silverlight applications using the Web.config file from the ASP.NET host application.

A more generic way of sorting a WPF ListView with IComparer

24 May 2008 by wpfdevelopment.com

An easy way of sorting the WPF ListView with a generic method.

A Multi-Select Control for Flags Enums in WPF

18 Jan 2021 by John Whitmire

A customizable way to set enum flags

A Multilingual Silverlight Virtual Keyboard

10 Jul 2009 by Andrius Mudinas

A multilingual Silverlight virtual keyboard.

A n-level Nested Directory Tree WPF Demo

15 May 2015 by Lộc Nguyễn

Example of data binding for nested tree structure, and MVVM pattern.

A nice approach for a LOB WPF application

22 Feb 2009 by Raul Mainardi Neto

An implementation of the MVVM Patterns + CommandModel within a WPF LOB application.

A Pendulum and its Corresponding Oscillations Shown in WPF

4 Nov 2010 by logicchild

An article that illustrates how to simulate a pendulum.

A Pluggable Architecture for Building Silverlight Applications with MVVM

6 Jul 2011 by Weidong Shen

This article describes building a sample Silverlight application with the MVVM Light toolkit, WCF RIA Services, and a pluggable application architecture using MEF.

A plugin for Picasa and .NET 3.5

4 Apr 2013 by Michael Mann (mann.DEV)

Plugin migration with new features of .NET 3.5.

A Potentially Informative Article about the WPF Engine

4 Nov 2010 by logicchild

An article that describes WPF for the beginner and provides some tips for the intermediate.

A Quick Guide to Silverlight Ribbon Controls (Part - 1)

11 Jan 2011 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

A Quick Guide to Silverlight Ribbon Controls (Part - 1)

A Resusable Attached Behavior for Defining Adorners in XAML

1 Nov 2010 by wujiong

Explains how to implement and use this powerful behavior

A reusable ProgressViewModel to observe progress with MVVM

30 Jan 2012 by Dirk Bahle

UI and code-behind is executed in different threads. Long running processes need asynchronous execution. This artice shows a way of doing this in a ViewModel approach.

A Reusable WPF Autocomplete TextBox

5 Jan 2010 by Aviad P.

A custom control based on a TextBox which allows autocompletion based on a custom filter from any items source.

A Sample Silverlight 4 Application Using MEF, MVVM, and WCF RIA Services - Part 1

7 Jul 2011 by Weidong Shen

Part 1 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using MEF, MVVM Light, and WCF RIA Services.

A Sample Silverlight 4 Application Using MEF, MVVM, and WCF RIA Services - Part 2

8 Jul 2011 by Weidong Shen

Part 2 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using MEF, MVVM Light, and WCF RIA Services. In this second part, we will go through various topics on how MVVM Light Toolkit is used in our sample application.

A Sample Silverlight 4 Application Using MEF, MVVM, and WCF RIA Services - Part 3

8 Jul 2011 by Weidong Shen

Part 3 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using MEF, MVVM Light, and WCF RIA Services. In this part, we will discuss how custom authentication, reset password, and user maintenance are implemented in the sample application.

A Silverlight application with the WCF RIA Services Class Library

3 Mar 2010 by Jevgenij Pankov

A Silverlight application using the WCF RIA Services Class Library. Demonstrates how to implement a custom Authorization Service, utilize localized resources, and add unit tests for DAL.

A Silverlight Sample Built with Self-Tracking Entities and WCF Services - Part 2

8 Mar 2011 by Weidong Shen

Part 2 of a series describing the creation of a Silverlight business application using Self-tracking Entities, WCF Services, WIF, MVVM Light Toolkit, MEF, and T4 Templates.

A Silverlight Sample Built with Self-Tracking Entities and WCF Services - Part 4

12 Apr 2011 by Weidong Shen

Part 4 of a series describing creation of a Silverlight business application using Self-tracking Entities, WCF Services, WIF, MVVM Light toolkit, MEF, and T4 Templates.

A Simple Application using Silverlight Physics Helper Library

28 Jun 2010 by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

A Simple Application using Silverlight Physics Helper Library

A Simple Autosave/Recovery Paint Application

16 Dec 2018 by Praveen Raghuvanshi

An application explaining the basic implementation of Autosave feature

A Simple but Useful WPF Container

2 Dec 2011 by Gordon Zhang

Utilize the Grid and GridSplitter to compose a SplitContainer

A Simple Example for the SoapBox Framework (WPF, .NET)

10 Aug 2012 by dreamgarden

SoapBox Core uses WPF's MEF to provide a base application framework that is easy to extend. This is a simple example that includes elements of a basic application (toolbar, statusbar, document area, etc.).

A Simple Flexible Silverlight Splash Screen

15 Dec 2009 by Dr. Song Li

This article shows a simple and flexible way of creating a Silverlight splash screen.

A simple Orca clone using Reflection.Emit

16 Aug 2011 by Reto Ravasio

A WPF app that uses dynamic types and databinding for displaying MSI files.

A Simple Property Grid Control

11 Apr 2023 by IssamTP

A .NET XAML user control to get a simple PropertyGrid

A Simple Quickstart - Using the Unity Container with Silverlight

12 Jan 2010 by Abhinav S

A simple Quickstart for using the Unity Container with Silverlight.

A Simple Silverlight RSS Reader

21 Jun 2010 by Arun Jacob

This is a simple Silverlight RSS Reader which pulls out data from a feed URL.

A Simple Snake Game in WPF

26 Mar 2012 by Achilleas Portarinos

How to program a simple Canvas Snake Game in WPF

A Simple Technique for Data-binding to the Position of a UI Element in WPF

23 Dec 2010 by Ashley Davis

Explains how to create a control whose position you can data-bind a property to

A Simple WPF XML Document Viewer Control

7 Apr 2010 by Dr. Song Li

This article introduces a simple XML document viewer control for WPF applications to display XML documents in a nicely formatted way.

A Simple, Integrated WPF Help System

1 Mar 2010 by Josh Fischer

Give your users quick, visual help without forcing them to leave your app.

A Software Virtual Keyboard for Your WPF Apps

25 Jul 2014 by JamesHurst

Walks through the creation of an on-screen virtual keyboard for entering non-ASCII chars

custom-controls

A Solution for Fast BitmapEffects

27 Apr 2008 by h32

A shameless (and for sure buggy) clone of Identitymine's ElementSnapshot

A Style for Round Glassy WPF Buttons

5 Jan 2009 by Lev Danielyan

A style for giving WPF buttons a glassy, Windows Vista-like look

A Text Editor App in Windows Store

8 Feb 2016 by Azim Zahir

This is a Text Editor App for Windows 8.

A Textured Triangle Control for Silverlight 2 - the Basic Building Block for 3D

11 Jun 2008 by Florian Kruesch

This article is all about implementing a triangle primitive as a custom control in Silverlight 2.0 that can be used for 3D effects in Silveright.

A Touch Screen Keyboard Control in WPF

15 Jan 2009 by Razan Paul (Raju)

A touch screen keyboard which emulates the basic functionality of a real keyboard.

A Vector Graphics Rendered Animated Clock

18 Apr 2004 by Marc Clifton

Demonstrates Using MyXaml With A Vector Graphics Engine to Create an Analog Clock

A Versatile TreeView for WPF

7 Feb 2008 by Philipp Sumi

A strongly typed enhancement of the regular WPF TreeView control.

A ViewStack Component for Silverlight 2 with Transitions and Cache management

20 Oct 2008 by Anil Kumar T R

An enhanced ViewStack component for Silverlight 2 with transitions and cache management.

A WatermarkTextBox in 3 lines of XAML

25 Jul 2008 by AndyL2

Another example of how XAML can solve issues that most developers automatically assume will require "coding".

A WCF-WPF Chat Application

15 Apr 2008 by Islam ElDemery

An Internet chat application with file transfer.

A Windows 8 WPF Ribbon

3 Jul 2014 by Alexander Wieser

The article showcases a Windows 8 themed WPF Ribbon inspired by Office 2013 and Visual Studio 2013.

A WinRT CollectionView class with Filtering and Sorting

30 Sep 2014 by Bernardo Castilho

The article presents an ICollectionView class that supports filtering and sorting.

A WPF based irregular pop up window demo

16 Jun 2008 by TonyTonyQ

This article describes how to create a fade in and fade out irregular pop up window using WPF

A WPF Custom Control for Zooming and Panning

21 Mar 2011 by Ashley Davis

Examines a custom content control that can be used to zoom and pan its content

A WPF DateTimePicker That Works Like the One in Winforms

9 Sep 2011 by Magnus Gudmundsson

A WPF DateTimePicker that Works like the one in Winforms

custom-controls

A WPF Graph Control Library

24 Apr 2008 by Derek Bartram

An article presenting a WPF library for producing extensible runtime customisable graphs

A WPF Rotary Control

23 Aug 2019 by Leif Simon Goodwin

This article presents a highly configurable rotary dial control.

A WPF Short TimeSpan Custom Control

19 Jan 2012 by Barry Lapthorn

A WPF short TimeSpan custom control using a spinner custom control.

A WPF Spinner Custom Control

16 Jan 2012 by Barry Lapthorn

A WPF custom spinner control.

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

A WYSIWYG Wallpaper Cutter

6 Mar 2009 by Marc Schluper

Creating a simple tool to get wallpapers right.

A XAML-Only Font ComboBox

9 Mar 2012 by Barry Lapthorn

A XAML-only font combobox.

Abstract Nonsense in Software Development. Real-time

7 Jan 2014 by Petr Ivankov

Application of abstract approach to real-time.

Achieve Loose Coupling with the WPF/Silverlight EventBroker

8 Jun 2010 by David Bobeck

Using attached properties in WPF or Silverlight to loosely couple UI element events to arbitrary code.

Add a Chatbot to a C# Application using SIML (Synthetic Intelligence Markup Language)

9 Oct 2017 by DaveMathews

Integration of a Chatbot in a C# application using SIML (Synthetic Intelligence Markup Language)

Add Facebook Like to your Silverlight Application

29 Mar 2011 by Mircea Deliu

In this article, you will find out what you need to do if you want to add a Facebook Like button to your Silverlight application.

Add Multiple Pushpins to Map in a Customized Way on Windows Phone 8

3 Oct 2013 by NitinShrivastava

In this tip, we will discuss a quick way of how to locate a point in the Map and then adding a customized pushpin to these locations through a sample XML.

Windows-Phone-7

Add Your Control On Top Another Application

22 May 2010 by Shai Raiten

How To Use Win32 To Add Your Control On Top Another Application Using Win32 Hooks.

Adding an Application Bar to your XAML Metro applications

1 Nov 2011 by mbcrump

A look at how to add an Application Bar to your XAML Metro applications.

Advanced Custom TreeView Layout in WPF

29 Jan 2007 by Josh Smith

Reviews an advanced layout customization for the WPF TreeView.

Advanced View States for Windows 10 apps

15 Apr 2015 by Juan Pablo G.C.

StateTriggers with multiple properties and initialization, setters for attached properties, deep property path, set values to null,custom attached properties, visual state group as resource and trigger inside datatemplates workaround

Advanced WPF Localization

1 Oct 2017 by Jecho Jekov

Provides a solution for localization of WPF application both in XAML and in code-behind

Advanced WPF Localization

16 Jun 2016 by Clifford Nelson

This is an alternative for "Advanced WPF Localization" that adds functionality for capitalizing and pluralizing the text to be display.