This article describes a Tabbed File Explorer with minimal functionality using only basic MVVM techniques and some attached properties. In a first article I described a MVVM Tabbed Navigation Tree, in this article I add a Tabbed Folderplane.
In the Vista world, application type selection is based on security requirement and deployment method but not on user interface requirements. This article describes various application types supported by Avalon sub-system of the Vista operating system.
This article describes a Tabbed File Explorer with minimal functionality using only basic MVVM techniques and some attached properties. In a first article I described a MVVM Tabbed Navigation Tree, in this article I add a Tabbed Folderplane.
In the Vista world, application type selection is based on security requirement and deployment method but not on user interface requirements. This article describes various application types supported by Avalon sub-system of the Vista operating system.
This article describes a Tabbed File Explorer with minimal functionality using only basic MVVM techniques and some attached properties. In a first article I described a MVVM Tabbed Navigation Tree, in this article I add a Tabbed Folderplane.
In the Vista world, application type selection is based on security requirement and deployment method but not on user interface requirements. This article describes various application types supported by Avalon sub-system of the Vista operating system.
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.
This article presents a class to manage enumerator based animations in WPF that can deal with different framerated animations independent of the hardware framerate
This article presents a reusable class and technique for easily doing Asynchronous Programming using the Begin/End Pattern and the new Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) library.
A tutorial that walks through adding/updating/deleting data in your database with LINQ to SQL while keeping your class relationships (M:M, 1:M, and M:1) synchronized.
A beginner's LINQ tutorial that walks you through mapping your SQL Server database tables and relationships to objects, and how to retrieve that data via simple LINQ queries.
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.
I have posted a recent article on the ProgressViewModel to show a software design that can be used for background processing in C# 4.0. This article extends that design with the ability to ouput more than one progress.
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.
This article is about a control that can be used to auto-omplete folders that have been typed into a textbox. It shows just how versatile binding and theming in WPF really is.
An introduction on Silverlight for developers of administrative applications. The article starts by explaining the basics of WPF and then delves deeper in the business-oriented aspects.
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.).
As companies look for different ways to manage their IT needs, “Multi-tenant” and “SaaS” applications are becoming more and more common. However, they also pose unique challenges. We will look at security administration and user management in a multi-tenant application with Visual Guard.
This article is about a very light-weight enum extension library that takes advantage of dynamic types in .NET 4.0 to provide a simple way to add meta attributes to an enum field.
An alternative MVVM implementation that employs a set of proxy control classes to act as a sort of "Platonic Ideal" WPF page for interaction with the view model.
Published WPF resources discussing control customization focus almost exclusively on editing local copies of ControlTemplates, while implementing and interacting with an actual Custom Control library requires a DIFFERENT set of techniques and reference syntax to be used
In this article, I would explain the steps to create a simple WPF application that can read out text for you; using .NET framework's Speech API and Installed voices.
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.
This exploration into the WPF Slider control aims to provide a deep understanding of how WPF designs its controls and their internal mechanisms. While it's nearly impossible to delve into every WPF control's internals due to the vast source code, there's no urgent need to worry or complain.
Bryan Brown's award-winning application that helps paraplegics and others with no ability to control their bodies regain some ability to communicate. This article details his journey from an idea to a contest-winning application and shows just how fluid and accessible the development process can be.
Implement WCF web service access from WPF with busy indicator and premature cancellation feature without using delegates, background worker, or separate event procedure
An introduction to async / await, popular mistakes and solutions for asynchronous programming, as well as usages and benefits from using asynchronous programming. We will also discuss interesting patterns based on concurrency.
Auto translate and synchronize is a little utility application and it works by simply taking your single fallback resource file (Resx) as input and automatically translates it in real time, creating a language specific resource file.
This article is describing behaviors ala Intellisense. I'll talk about how to extend the RichTextBox display behavior without interference in the control, without overwriting any of the members, fully configurable in the Xaml code, with the possibility of dynamic control.
This article presents a behavior that can make another UIElement visible when the mouse down event occurs on the UIElement this behavior is attached to. Have extended this to directly support fading of a Popup control
A problem with the WPF MVVM design pattern is closing a window from the ViewModel. This article presents a method that allows the use of dependency properties to be used to control the closing of a window
In this article, we will create a simple binary clock using C# and WPF. The project itself will serve to show some peculiarities, like the use of Tasks, how to manipulate the UI of a WPF page, and basic data conversions.
This article presents an implementation to support IDataErrorInfo with attributes on the properties for WPF. It also covers other aspects of displaying error information using WPF.
In this article I want to show how binding controls directly to the View Model methods can simplify development of XAML UI, and completely eliminate manual work with Commands.
BindingHub is the best thing since sliced bread. After you finish reading this article, you will start wondering how you could survive for so long without BindingHub. I did wonder the same thing after creating it.
Survey the many productivity enhancing features Microsoft added to Visual Studio 2010 and see how adding Infragistics NetAdvantage for .NET 2010 Volume 1 to your IDE will help you accelerate your application development and break out of the limitations of the Toolbox.
We are going to build a simple web chat application using Silverlight 2 and the technologies surrounding it like, ASP.NET 3.5, C#, WCF, and LINQ-to-SQL. We will use MS SQL Server to store user details and messages from this chat room.
Why build responsive UI? Answer seems obvious that end-user should experience that application doesn’t hang often (for developers POV, a time taking background operation makes it look like hanging). So lets learn building responsive UI using Async Await keywords Visual Studio 2012 introduced a
This article and the demo are about getting started using the MVVM Community Toolkit and some self-created interfaces / services for Message Box and some Dialogs.
Design a DGML state machine using visual tools,... then depend upon C# Reflection to implement the state machine boundaries and triggers in your application.
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.
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.
Introducing the Calcium SDK. 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.
This presents a way to capture a PropertyChanged on a DependencyObject, in this case to capture when the Content on a ContentPresenter changes and setting focus.
This article tries to explain why you should use Catel as the (or one of the) frameworks when developing WPF, Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7 applications.
Catel is not just another Extension Methods library, nor just an MVVM-framework, but it is a combination of basic data handling, useful controls, and an MVVM-framework.
This article offers unified approach to implementation of user commands, converters, and validation rules. Those who are very curious can jump directly to the chapter Demonstration and to the source code (demo version with the original library is attached).
An Azure based software solution allowing users to discover events around them on a massive scale. Features ASP.net MVC4, Entity Framework and a large importing backend utilizing Azure virtual machines
A customizable log provider system that allows you to harness your existing logging system to log client side messages to your server using WCF. Includes WPF sample applications.
Discusses a simple and testable way to bind Commands inside DataTemplates (Parent-Child scenario) in any WPF or Silverlight application built with the MVVM design pattern
This article contains a basic overview of the complex numbers, and their creation and functions most specifically the operator overloading for arithmetic functions. Programming languages include Java, C++, C# and VB.NET at the moment.
WPF application built on the Composite Application Library. How to start, organize solution projects, distribute resources and build complex UI using the Presentation Model pattern.
In this series of articles, we will learn about Prism Framework by creating a demo Composite WPF application. We will learn how to use various components of Prism to build a Composite application by mocking practical organization level scenario.
This is second part of the article series with a demo WPF application using Prism and MVVM. In this part we will enhance the demo by adding common infrastructures and five modules.
In this article we will learn about EventAggregator and IActiveAware interface and its uses in WPF application using Prism. This is continuation of second part of article series having total three parts.
I have had two projects that I have worked on that required a lot of graphics. In general there has been minimal interaction between the user and the graphics, so the implementation has been very straight forward.
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.
Provides implementations of concurrent observable collection classes for binding to WPF controls so that the collections can be updated from a thread that isn't the WPF GUI thread
A Desktop and Silverlight user action management system, with undo, redo, and repeat. Allowing actions to be monitored, and grouped according to a context (such as a UI control), executed sequentially or in parallel, and even to be rolled back on failure.
A Desktop and Silverlight user action management system, with undo, redo, and repeat; allowing actions to be monitored, and grouped according to a context (such as a UI control), executed sequentially or in parallel, and even to be rolled back on failure.
This article explains how to create a class that can handle any kind of data-type conversion by allowing users to register their own conversions and how to make it work both as a global and also as a local solution, so different threads can do different conversions for the same data-types.
Here is the solution to Conway's Game Of Life problem - Enjoy it , have fun ;) . Dead cells are in Red, Alive cells are in Green and Empty cells are in White. You can modify the colours as per your need.
The current article might be useful for users attempting to use NServiceBus. It contains detailed instruction for creating pairs: publisher-subscriber through ServiceMatrix. Solution architects may find this technique useful in many CQRS scenarios as a good alternative to WCF.
This article will teach you how to create an amazing, clean and smooth WPF/Winform UI for your native application without using any complex, unsafe, ActiveXish methods, etc.
This article explains how to implement background processing and parallel processing for time consuming tasks in MVVM, and how to create a progress dialog with cancellation for those tasks.
This article provides a detailed explanation and analysis of developing a PLAY button inspired by the game "League of Legends" using pure WPF technology.
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.
This article demonstrates how to write a domain service factory to host plain old class object (POCO) entities and use them through RIA Services in Silverlight version 4.
In WPF, custom controls should be look-less. That means, that business logic and UI are strongly separated. When you create a control, you can provide a default template for the control, but anyone who uses the control can override it without touching the business logic.
This article is about implementing a simple Currency Converter Application using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) technology.
Custom Rule Engine approach which can evaluate complex combinations of business rules. A sample application is provided in WPF following the MVVM pattern.
Control featuring design and animations specialized for mobile, but can be elegantly and structurally implemented using ListBox and Animation technologies available in WPF.
This article shows how we can present a 3D scene and, perform common operations (zoom, rotate, move, zoom to specific region, adjust the camera to view the whole of the scene, and pick a 3D shape on a specific region on the rendered surface) on it, using Managed DirectX.
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.
A reflection based wrapper for the Oracle Data Provider for .NET – allows your application to dynamically load the Oracle.DataAccess.dll assembly installed on your client’s computer.
Covers in depth all WPF color related issues from Color Models, ColorPickers, Colors to helpful methods for mixing colors and making them brighter and darker.
In this article, we will learn about DelegateCommand and CompositeCommand provided by Prism Framework. To grasp the concept, we will create a simple demo with minimum functionality to highlight these concepts.
A small library that allows for a simple and reliable raising of the CanExecuteChange event through property changes caused by user input or any async change. It can be used with both WPF and Silverlight.
Presents a simple way to serialize business objects that are derived from WPF's DependencyObject and use DependencyProperty with the help of some reflection
Advanced features of contemporary mobile devices provide vast opportunities for their utilization in various situations. These opportunities can cause serious snags that programme developers have not met in desktop environment before. Mobile environment is specific, yet very challenging and prospect
Digital meter control is a custom control in WPF which can be used as a real time monitor for showing a decimal value in a formatted way with a nice animation.
Presents a helper class to easily display user-friendly enum value representations including customizable and localizable text, images, and arbitrary XAML content. This class can also be used as a general XAML switch statement for enum and non-enum classes.
Describes a technique for updating styles for multiple windows at once dynamically based on a property setting. This technique uses data triggers. It is demonstrated by creating two windows that support a day and night mode.
Educational software package for Microsoft Windows® 7/8 contains “5-in-1” School Math Calculators and Equation Solvers intended for students and educators
5-in-1 educational software package for Tablet PC/Win8: Fraction Calculator, Prime Factoring, Linear, Quadratic and System of Equation solvers (AIC-2013)
A WPF TextBox which can validate email addresses depending on your needs, plus detailed description of the many ways a valid email address may look like.
Engineering Calculator VOLTA-814 (Productivity Software contest submission) was originally developed as HTML5 web application and later converted into desktop app using Intel’s AppUp encapsulator. The latest version for Win 7/8 released in 2014 is built on .NET/WPF.
A comprehensive guide on identifying issues with the standard WPF DatePicker, exploring its design and interaction intricacies, and introducing a new implementation using a CustomControl named SmartDate.
A comprehensive guide on identifying issues with the standard WPF DatePicker, exploring its design and interaction intricacies, and introducing a new implementation using a CustomControl named SmartDate.
The following is achieved using attached properties: Binds Enum to ComboBox, make a searchable TreeView, create WinFormStyle TreeView for WPF and a cool pixel shader Magnification for WPF.
This chapter will lay out some of the basic principles of WPF and walk through a quick overview of the entire platform. You can think of this chapter as a preview of the rest of the book.
The Exif Compare Utility is a WinDiff equivalent for image files that compares the Exif meta-data and displays the differences and similarities. The application is written using WPF and MVVM.
This is a control that is like a Expander Control but there is both Expanded and not Expanded Content. It demonstrates some concepts on how to easily create controls whose functionality can be mostly implemented in the XAML with the code behind being mostly DependencyProperty definitions.
This article shows how to create a custom control that extends an existing WPF control. It extends the WPF Calendar control by adding date highlighting.
Utility class for filling mergefields (loose fields and tabular data) in a Microsoft Word (docx) template document, without needing Microsoft Word itself
FireKeys is a tool that lets you set up hotkey bindings for your favorite programs or places. See how it works, download it and find out how the code was written!
Ouellet Convex Hull is currently the only ‘Online’ Convex Hull in O(log h) per point, where 'Online' stands for dynamically add one point at a time. Based on our own test against many other algorithm implementations, including Chan and Voronoi/Delaunay, it appears to be the fastest one.
This article demonstrates a very simple technique which can be used to easliy modify the standard Windows Presentation Foundation controls without creating an extended class or using a data template.
Describes the theory behind fractals and how to draw fractal images, using L-system, IFS, Mandelbrot, Newton, Burning ship, Nova and Julia set, Markus-Lyapunov fractals, Kronecker products, DLA algorithm and the Sunflower spiral.
Reviews the “From Russia with Love” technique of simplifying the creation of ViewModel objects from other libraries, without compromising your MVVM architecture
General solution for the Windows service: run as console for debugging, self-installing and -uninstalling, providing description, queuing and processing of messages, status observation and control with icon in system tray. The code may be reused for virtually any Windows service.
This article introduces The Genesis Smart Client Framework v2.0 (Project Ruby). It focusses on the user interface component, dubbed the User Experience Platform (UXP), developed using PRISM for WPF and Silverlight.
GMap.NET is a powerful, free, cross platform, Open Source .NET control. It enables the use of routing, geocoding, and maps from Google, Yahoo!, OpenStreet in Windows Forms and Presentation, and supports caching!
A menu-based UI filtering solution in which the first level will show the filtering criteria and the next levels will give the optional values in more and more granular resolution options.
Using the 3D graphics capabilities of the new Windows Presentation Foundation and the rules library available in Workflow Foundation (via DmRules), this game shows how easy it is to write interactive 3D applications with .NET 3.0.
Create compelling, high-end Business Intelligence solutions with the new WPF 4 data visualization controls released as part of Infragistics NetAdvantage for WPF Data Visualization 2010 Volume 2.
Explore the fast and highly customizable UI controls in Infragistics NetAdvantage for WPF Line of Business from the perspective of a Microsoft Expression Blend user. In revealing much of the data grid’s object model, I cover some of the more popular ways to format and style grids in Blend.
Use a Microsoft Kinect to control the home automation in the house. Lights can be turned on an off from speech recognition or from pointing at them and waving your other hand one way to turn on and the other way to turn off.
Often you want to display a DataGrid, but you don’t want to simply display it as is, you want to be able to enhance it and add functionality to it, such as adding an image to the start of each row or adding a button on each row.
This article demonstrates how Visual Guard has been able to help meet the strict criteria of health regulations in the United States. It will look at why two major health care actors have integrated Visual Guard into their applications.
This article explains how to consume a Web Service in a WPF Windows application. It requires binding of WPF controls to data coming from a Web Service.
This article covers complete step-by-step tutorial on how to create a line chart in WPF and how to convert it into a chart control that can be reused in WPF applications with MVVM pattern.
Infragistics leverages Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, the latest version of Microsoft’s integrated development environment (IDE) for the .NET Framework, to deliver powerful user interface tools that allow you to create rich user experiences that will delight your users with the WOW-factor!
How to programmatically start, on Windows Vista and higher versions, a recording session of any sound being played through a specific output device by third-party applications like Windows Media Player or YouTube, by leveraging the WASAPI sub-system through Audio Sound Recorder for .NET.
This article explains the proper way of using Windows Vista Search provider inside a WPF application. It incorporates DataBinding, Query provides and other useful technologies, introduces within Windows Vista and Windows Presentation Foundation
The use of Kinect.Toolbox and Coding4Fun APIs could save time on Kinect programming this is what we will see in this article and also how to modify those APIs and use it
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.
How to add a Firefox-like incremental search to WPF applications using the M-V-VM pattern. The search is performed directly on a CollectionView, so it can be used with any WPF items control.
In this paper we walk through a sample application (in this case a game that quizzes people on the Periodic Table) that enables multi-user, multi-touch capability and is optimized for large touchscreen displays.
Infragistics dives deep into the technical architecture of their xamSalesManager showcase sample for WPF. Read how you can apply the Model - View - ViewModel pattern to your own application designs to create compelling user experiences like in this sophisticated sales dashboard.
As users are migrating from traditional desktops to mobile devices, transitioning your Windows application to the web is the next step to increasing your exposure. Thinfinity VirtualUI delivers your Windows applications to users on any device, anywhere.
This set of code samples was created to be used during the Brazilian Intel RealSense Hands-on Labs to make it easier for the participants to understand how to use the Intel® RealSense™ SDK.
Create a WPF 3D Bar chart in your .NET application easily. You can create interactive 3D bar charts in seconds using this WPF 3D bar chart custom control. You can even databind your input to see the '3D chart bar change live as you enter your input' effect.
A WPF Textbox which can validate international and national phone numbers depending on your needs, plus detailed explanation of the structure of phone numbers.
PresentationWindows is a WPF class library that introduces three new types derived from the Window class, enabling many previously difficult to access features of windows.
.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.
This article introduces how to create and manage .NET enterprise applications using your favorite technology (Data Access Application Block, LINQ, NHibernate, ASMX, and WCF) with the Model Driven Development approach by Sculpture.
Make your life easier by inserting a Presentation Model layer (aka ViewModel) between your domain-model collection contents and template-generated WPF objects.
TV Screen in the Reception, When nothing happens (no one is in the reception) we can display videos on the screen but when someone enters the frame show him the Kinect Image, and if the user is doing something funny, capture his image and save it.
The goal of this article is to extract a point cloud using the Microsoft Kinect v2 sensor, visualize it using the VTK toolkit, save it for printing or further work (e.g. using Meshlab)
Legion is a grid computing framework that uses the Silverlight CLR to execute user definable tasks. It provides grid-wide thread-safe operations for web clients. Client performance metrics, such as bandwidth and processor speed, may be used to tailor jobs. Also includes a WPF Manager application.
