alkampfer on January 20th, 2012

The power of WPF binding really shines when you use design time data to have a live preview of the aspect of your UI without the need to press F5 to load actual data. Design time data is a cool feature you can have with little effort, suppose you have a simple windows and you [...]

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alkampfer on November 17th, 2011

I’ve dealt with this problem some time ago and the solution I posted worked well, but requires you to manipulate the content of the page, injecting script on the DOM. If you want to get rid of annoying messagebox with javascript error, there is another solution based on simply setting the Silent property on the [...]

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alkampfer on July 14th, 2011

In WPF there is no PropertyViewer control, but if your need is simply to show a read-only list of all properties of an object, for dump purpose, you can obtain this with few lines of code. First of all write a special IValueConverter. 1: [ValueConversion(typeof(Object), typeof(ObservableCollection<PropertyInfo>))] 2: public class PropertyViewerConverter : IValueConverter 3: { 4: [...]

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The problem is really simple, but sometimes I see people tend to forget a little bit how the DataContext works in WPF and being stuck in wandering why a command is not invoked when a button inside a DataTemplate is pressed. Suppose you have a ListView bounds to a list of items called SingleResult, for [...]

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alkampfer on June 21st, 2011

I have an application that is built with a Metro-Like UI, so each windows has no border and can be resized with the ResizeMode equal to CanResizeWithGrip. Figure 1: The windows can be resized by a little grip on the bottom right border of the window I created another view, use a similar layout from [...]

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