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A Toy Tabbed File Explorer for Prototype and MVVM Exercise

by wim4you

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.

"Avalon" Application Type (By Deployment)

by Its Piyush Gupta

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.

"smart" WPF text-box with Input Restriction and Validation

by Daniel Brousser

Custom TextBox control for UI input validation

(Hybrid Smart Client) RSS Media Player

by Paul_Wade

A WPF application for viewing RSS video feeds. Built using the MVVM pattern.

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A Toy Tabbed File Explorer for Prototype and MVVM Exercise

by wim4you

"Avalon" Application Type (By Deployment)

by Its Piyush Gupta

"smart" WPF text-box with Input Restriction and Validation

by Daniel Brousser

Custom TextBox control for UI input validation

(Hybrid Smart Client) RSS Media Player

by Paul_Wade

A WPF application for viewing RSS video feeds. Built using the MVVM pattern.

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.NET DateTime, A Tale About Best Practices and Time Travel

by Matteo Prosperi

In this article, we investigate how DateTime issues are avoided.

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

by jmix90

A fast and easy tip about shadows and performance

[WPF] Highlight ListView Items

by Nadege Rouelle

WPF highlight ListView items

A Customizable WPF MessageBox

by Arik Poznanski

A Customizable WPF MessageBox

A Simple Pattern for Creating Re-useable UserControls in WPF / Silverlight

by Colin Eberhardt

This blog post provides step-by-step instructions for creating a user control, which exposes bindable properties, in WPF and Silverlight. The post covers dependency properties, and how to manage DataContext inheritance.

A Simple Way to Make a Custom WPF Message Box

by Steve Naidamast

Here is a simple way to make a custom WPF Message Box

A Universal Value Converter for WPF

by Colin Eberhardt

A simple IValueConverter implementation that makes use of the framework type converters in order to convert between a large range of source / target types

A Visual Guide in Designing SharePoint 2010

by Raymund Macaalay

13 easy steps on how to redesign your Sharepoint 2010 site

Adding Options in Expression Blend extensions

by Timmy Kokke

Often extensions for Expression Blend have to need to store some global variables. Why not use the mechanisms Blend itself offers?

Application.DoEvents in WPF

by Derek Lakin

Implementing Application.DoEvents in WPF.

AProperties and Bindings outside of WPF Revisited

by Nick Polyak

AProperties and Bindings outside of WPF Revisited

Asynchronous WPF Command

by qenn

Asynchronous WPF command

Attached and Routed Events Outside of WPF

by Nick Polyak

A series of blog posts regarding implementing WPF concepts outside of WPF

Attached Properties outside of WPF

by Nick Polyak

Re-implementing and improving WPF concepts outside of WPF and in a way that is not necessarily connected to GUI development.

Automatically Showing ToolTips on a Trimmed TextBlock (Silverlight + WPF)

by Colin Eberhardt

How to automatically show ToolTips on a trimmed TextBlock (Silverlight + WPF)

Automating Graphic Design with WPF

by Matteo Prosperi

This post is the the second in a short series investigating somewhat exotic parts of .NET.

AvalonDock and Caliburn Micro Screen Conductor

by Felice Pollano

Using AvalonDock and Caliburn Micro Screen Conductor together

Azure: Upload and Stream Video Content to WPF from Blob Storage

by Sacha Barber

Azure: how to upload and stream video content to WPF from blob storage

BackgroundWorker and UI Threads

by Ivan Krivyakov

BackgroundWorker and UI threads

Bind Markup Extension

by Nick Polyak

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

Binding and styling text to a RichTextBox in WPF

by Leom Burke

Binding and styling text to a RichTextBox in WPF

Binding Does Not a Dependency Property Make

by Ivan Krivyakov

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

Binding on a Property which is not a DependencyProperty

by jmix90

A lot of controls expose properties which are not DependencyProperties and then you can’t put a binding on it. On some other cases, you only have a getter as accessor and you can’t put a binding on it too...

Binding to a single object

by Pete O'Hanlon

A sample of the WPF databinding infrastructure.

Binding To Nullable Enums

by Sacha Barber

A short post about how you can easily bind to nullable enums value in WPF

Binding to the Selected Items of a ListBox (or Another Items Controls)

by jmix90

A problem you often meet when using MVVM is to get the selected items of an items control, especially Listbox

Binding without WPF

by Nick Polyak

Here we are going to talk about the binding concept and how it can be re-implemented outside of WPF without being tied to the visual libraries or the UI threads.

Bing Maps Silverlight Control Integration with SharePoint 2010 – Integration of Silverlight 4 with SharePoint 2010

by Abhijit Jana

A demo of how to integrate a Silverlight Application with SharePoint 2010

Build A Font Viewer Application in WPF Without Writing Any C# Code

by Nikola Breznjak

How to build a font viewer application in WPF without writing any C# code

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

by erik_nl

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

Building a docking window management solution in WPF

by Ashish Kaila

How to build a docking window management solution in WPF

Building a Metro UI with WPF

by Nikos Baxevanis

How to build a Metro UI with WPF?

Building OpenPOS: Part 9 – Settings and Notifications

by rudigrobler

Building OpenPOS – Settings and Notifications

Camera Face Detection in C# using Emgu CV and WPF

by Junian Triajianto

How to perform Face Detection using your camera / Webcam

Change and Deleted Item Tracking within the Infragistics DataGrid

by User 271009

Change and Deleted Item Tracking within the Infragistics DataGrid

by User 271009

Change and deleted item tracking within the Infragistics datagrid

Changing the Caret Colour in WPF

by Derek Lakin

Changing the Caret Colour in WPF

Closable TabItem in WPF

by Adrian Alexander

The included ClosableTabItem derives from TabItem and provides the functionality you need to easily add close buttons to your program's tabs.

Compile-Time Validation of Composite Object Data Binding Expressions

by Daniel Vaughan

Prompted by a recent comment on the T4 Metadata Generation template article, which I released some weeks ago, I have implemented a new mechanism for concatenating property paths. This allows compile time validation of properties that exist on composite or nested members.

Compiling Multiple Projects into a Single EXE File in WPF

by Gilly Barr

How to compile multiple projects into a single EXE file in WPF

Comprehensive list of development tools for SharePoint Server 2007

by Syed Adnan Ahmed

I have tried to summarise the list of development tools that you require in your day to day development.

Create Client Context To Access SharePoint 2013 (Office 365 Preview) in AutoHosted SharePoint App Model using SharePoint Client Object Model (CSOM)

by Melick

How to create client context to access SharePoint 2013 (Office 365 preview) in AutoHosted SharePoint app model using SharePoint Client Object Model

Create Custom Windows in WPF with Ease

by Ashish Kaila

How to create custom Windows in WPF with ease

Creating a Custom View Mode that Supports a Template Selector

by Derek Lakin

Creating a Custom View Mode that Supports a Template Selector

Creating a Custom Window Style

by Derek Lakin

I'll show you how to implement a custom Style by implementing a custom message box.

Creating a Dynamic WPF Menu: Part 1

by Wastedtalent

Part 1 of how to create a dynamic WPF menu

Creating a Dynamic WPF Menu: Part 3

by Wastedtalent

Creating a dynamic WPF Menu: Part 3

Creating a WPF Frame Inside of a Window with AllowsTransparency Set to True

by Aron Weiler

How to create a WPF frame inside of a window with AllowsTransparency set to true

Creating Powerpoint Table using ‘OpenXML’ with XAML Applications

by adityaswami89

A generic way of adding a table to Powerpoint using OpenXML

Custom Media Player in WPF (Part 1)

by Panagiotis Bailis

Custom media player in WPF - Part 1

Custom Media Player in WPF (Part 1)

by Panagiotis Bailis

Custom media player in WPF (Part 1)

Data Templates Implementation Outside of WPF

by Nick Polyak

Data Templates implementation outside of WPF

DataContext in WPF

by kishore Gaddam

The Binding object needs to get its data from somewhere, and there are a few ways to specify the source of the data like using Source property directly in the Binding, inheriting a DataContext from the nearest element...

Deal with Performance in WPF applications

by Abhishek Sur

Deal with Performance in WPF applications

Define Your Own Dialog Box in Winform

by Md. Rashim Uddin

How to define your own dialog box

Dependency Property Performance and Lissajous Figures

by Colin Eberhardt

A simple lesson regarding the speed of dependency properties ... and a funky Oscilloscope!

DependencyProperties or INotifyPropertyChanged ?

by jmix90

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

Developing Resolution-Independent Applications in WPF

by DotNetForAll

How to develop resolution independent applications in WPF

EF Code First and WPF with the Chinook Database. Part 1 – The Model

by Leom Burke

EF Code First and WPF with the Chinook Database. Part 1 – The Model

EF Code First and WPF with the Chinook database. Part 1b – the provider

by Leom Burke

EF Code First and WPF with the Chinook database. Part 1b – the provider

EF Code First and WPF with the Chinook database. Part 3 – Styles and DataTemplates 101

by Leom Burke

I have decided to split out the styling work into 2 posts as it would be a huge post to restyle even something so simple.

Enforcing Single Instance WPF Applications

by Daniel Vaughan

How to enforce single instance WPF applications

Everything You Wanted to Know About databinding in WPF, Silverlight, and WP7 (Part One)

by Colin Eberhardt

Databinding is a fundamental part of the WPF, Silverlight, and the Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 frameworks. It is a powerful concept that once mastered allows you to write concise and elegant code.

Execute a Command on a Specified Control When Clicking on a Button

by jmix90

Execute a command on a specified control when clicking on a button

Extensibility Series – WPF & Silverlight Design-Time Code Sharing – Part II

by User 271009

WPF and Silverlight Design-Time code sharing

Friction Scrolling Now a WPF Attached Behaviour too

by Sacha Barber

Friction scrolling is now a WPF attached behaviour too

Fun with Fonts

by Pete O'Hanlon

How to have fun with fonts in WPF

Genereting proxies during runtime using Reflection.Emit

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.

Getting control of your numbers

by Pete O'Hanlon

A simple mechanism to limit the input of data to a TextBox so that it only accepted the relevant numeric amount.

Getting started with Prism 2, formerly known as the Composite Application Library

by Wes Aday

IntroductionPrism is a set of libraries that allow developers to compose applications from separate components into a composite application.

Global Exceptions Handling in WPF

by EngineerSpock

Global exceptions handling in WPF

Grandia's initiative bar

by Victor Rene

Gradia's initiative bar

Guide in developing Initiation Form on Sharepoint Workflows

by Raymund Macaalay

Guide in developing Initiation Form on Sharepoint Workflows

Hands on Lab for Key Features Used in Silverlight/WPF Projects

by ManojKumar19

Hands on Lab for MVVM, Value Converter, XAML Binding, Delegate Command pattern, INotifyPropertyChange, Lambda Expression, LINQ etc. in Silverlight/WPF project

How can you add "Select All" behaviour for all TextBoxes in your WPF application?

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Add "Select All" behaviour for all TextBoxes in your WPF application

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

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Organizing custom control properties inside Visual Studio and Expression Blend

How to create an animated expander

by jmix90

The expander control can be used in a lot of situations but the one proposed by default is quite "rigid".

How to Create Shaped or Irregular Window in WPF

by Ayobami Adewole

How to create shaped or irregular window in WPF

How to create your own control library (how-to + tips)

by jmix90

Reusability and factorizing are maybe the most commons things you want and use when you are developing applications. In WPF it often means creating controls library (i don’t mean UserControl) that will be easy to use in multiple applications.

How to Design a Custom Control by Editing the Part Template?

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

This is a continuation to my previous post "How to create a Custom Control in Silverlight".

How to enable code blocks in Sharepoint 2010 (Works also in 2007)

by Raymund Macaalay

How to enable code blocks in Sharepoint 2010 (Works also in 2007)

How to Render Bitmap or to Print a Visual in WPF

by Abhishek Sur

The article shows how you could use RenderTargetBitmap to render a visual into BitmapSource and convert the same into actual image.

How to use Commands in WPF

by Nadege Rouelle

How to use WPF Commands

How to use LINQ to Sharepoint

by Raymund Macaalay

How to use LINQ to Sharepoint

How To: Use leaderboards on Windows Phone with XPG

by XPG Live

Use leaderboards on Windows Phone with XPG

IDataErrorInfo with Fluent Validation

by adityaswami89

Article on Validation in XAML applications with Fluent technique

If Behaviors Complete MVVM, Then?

by comiscience

Sometimes we need to have an independent View-ViewModel part which divides a part of the work to an independent module. Why do we do this?

If Your Custom WPF Control Just Would Not Show Up

by Ivan Krivyakov

If your custom WPF control just would not show up

Implementing INotifyPropertyChanged

by Arun Jacob

This article shows how to implement INotifyPropertyChanged.

Improve WPF performance with RenderOptions

by comiscience

My original article link is here: http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/752333/Improve-WPF-performance-with-RenderOptions Introduction Too many articles have been presented on how to improve WPF performance with several global methods.

In GAC we Trust

by Ivan Krivyakov

In GAC we trust

Infinite Maps (for games or similar)

by Paulo Zemek

Infinite maps (for games or similar)

Install Sharepoint 2010 in a non Server OS

by Raymund Macaalay

Install Sharepoint 2010 in a non Server OS

Inter-process Mediator

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!

Introducing DirectX to WPF

by Super Lloyd

Introducing DirectX to WPF

Introducing MixModes Synergy 2010

by Ashish Kaila

Introducing MixModes Synergy 2010

Is WPF dead: the present and future of WPF

by Pragmateek

Introduction As a WPF developer for years I was recently concerned by the new direction chosen by Microsoft on its client platforms with the rise of the brand new WinRT framework. I was concerned for good reasons: I’ve suffered from … Continue reading →

Keyboard Input and TAB Navigation Between WPF Controls in a Win32 Application

by Marius Bancila

I will show how to provide keyboard input for WPF controls hosted in a Win32 applications.

Kinect and WPF: Complete body tracking

by Vangos Pterneas

Complete body tracking in Kinect.

Kinect and WPF: Getting the raw and depth image using OpenNI

by Vangos Pterneas

Kinect and WPF: Getting the raw and depth image using OpenNI.

Kinect and WPF: Painting with Kinect using OpenNI

by Vangos Pterneas

Painting with Kinect using OpenNI

Knockout Style Observables in XAML

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.

Local Image Caching with Custom Image Control in WPF

by Ivan Leonenko

Local image caching with custom control in WPF

Localization Made Easy In WPF

by Ashish Kaila

Localization in WPF applications

Logging Display and WPF

by Pete O'Hanlon

Logging display and WPF

Logging with Dynamic Objects in .NET 4.0 (part 2-n) - User Interaction Logging

by erik_nl

Logging with dynamic objects in .NET 4.0 (part 2-n) - user interaction logging

Mahhala – Bag o' Tricks

by rudigrobler

In this, my first edition of Mahhala, we will look at the awesome set of controls by Kevin Moore called Bag of Tricks (BOT).

Mahhala – Bag o' Tricks

by rudigrobler

Mahhala (a 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.

Mahhala – Fluent Ribbon Control Suite

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.

Mahhala – Fluent Ribbon Control Suite

by rudigrobler

Fluent Ribbon Control Suite

Mahhala – WPF NotifyIcon

by rudigrobler

Discussion with Philipp Sumi, the creator of WPF NotifyIcon

Mahhala – WPF NotifyIcon

by rudigrobler

WPF NotifyIcon

Mahhala – WPF NotifyIcon

by rudigrobler

WPF NotifyIcon

Make Parent Window Blurred for Better Focus on UI, in WPF

by Manas_Patnaik

Make parent window blurred for better focus on UI, in WPF

Make Your WPF Buttons Color hot-track!

by rudigrobler

Make your WPF buttons color hot-track!

Make Your WPF Buttons Color Hot-track!

by rudigrobler

Make your WPF buttons color hot-track!

Making WPF Images ICommand Aware

by SteveAdey

Here's a quick post to show how to make images (and any other framework element) react to an ICommand when clicked.

Massively Parallel RNG using CUDA C, Thrust and C#

by Adnan Boz

Massively Parallel Random Nunber Generation using CUDA C, Thrust and C#

Modal dialogs in cross-platform WPF/Silverlight applications

by Colin Eberhardt

This blog post looks at the problem of showing modal dialog windows in applications that target both the Silverlight and WPF platforms. A solution is provided which allows modal dialogs to be written that work well for both technologies.

Model-View-Presenter and Model-View-ViewModel in Prism

by Wes Aday

This is a beginners introduction to the MVP and MVVM design pattern as implemented in Prism

Model-View-ViewModel in WPF - Part I

by Wes Aday

This code that I am presenting here is a derivative of the demo application written by Josh Smith, http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com.

Much Improved .NET 4.0 WPF Text Rendering

by User 271009

Much improved .NET 4.0 WPF text rendering

Multi-Lingual UIs in WPF

by SteveAdey

Multi-lingual UIs in WPF

MVVM - Creating ViewModel : create dynamic proxies with Castle (solution 3 of n)

by jmix90

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

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

by jmix90

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

MVVM - Creating ViewModel: Wrap your business object (Solution 1 of n)

by jmix90

When you create WPF applications, you may (or you should !) use the M-V-VM pattern and so have to use/create ViewModel.The viewModel job is mainly to expose properties of your businessObjects to your views, ready for binding. Here is a first solution to create ViewModel from your model.

MVVM - How to integrate the Office Ribbon respecting the pattern (especially the commands)

by jmix90

How to integrate the Office Ribbon respecting the pattern (especially the commands)

MVVM in WPF Part II

by Wes Aday

This is the second part in a two part article on the Model-View-ViewModel design pattern in WPF.The ModelOur friend the Model is responsible for getting and holding onto the data. The data could come from anywhere, a file, a database, thin air, etc.

MVVM ListBox Grouping

by SteveAdey

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

MVVM Series: Part I

by SteveAdey

Setting up an MVVM application and some simple binding to text and commands.

MVVM TabControl

by SteveAdey

This is a quick demonstration of how to use the standard WPF TabControl inside MVVM.

MVVM using POCOs with .NET 4.0 and the DynamicViewModel Class

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.

MVVMLight Using Two Views

by Barry Lapthorn

How to create an MVVM application using MVVM Light with multiple views in one window

My Favorite WPF Book of All Times–WPF Control Development Unleashed

by Ashish Kaila

WPF Control Development Unleashed - my favorite WPF book of all times

New Options for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 WPF and Silverlight Projects

by User 271009

New Options for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 WPF and Silverlight Projects

No More Magic Strings! Presenting: @string.of

by Arik Poznanski

Implementing a "stringof" operator using expression trees

No scroll content of WPF XBAP in IFrame

by Rahman Masudur

Avoiding scrolling for XBAP in IFrame.

Numpad’s Decimal-point Correction for WPF

by Mario Vernari

Numpad's decimal point correction for WPF

Observable : Automatically Notify Property Owner When a Property is Changed

by Leung Yat Chun

Reduce the property declaration code to one line, yet still usable directly.

Open-Source WPF Reporting Engine

by rudigrobler

I have seen so many people use FlowDocuments to create reports! This is really cool but what if you need a more complex reporting engine! Can it handle it? Can it be abstracted and reused! Do you have to start from scratch each time?

Order in Chaos: Dependency Property Value Resolution

by Arik Poznanski

Order in Chaos: Dependency Property Value Resolution

OutlookBar for WPF & Silverlight

by rudigrobler

OutlookBar for WPF & Silverlight

by rudigrobler

OutlookBar for WPF & Silverlight

by rudigrobler

OutlookBar for WPF & Silverlight

Page Transition Control for WPF

by Aron Weiler

Like the title says... a simple (very simple) page transition control for WPF

Parse JSON to C# in WinRT, Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone

by Irina Pykhova

How to parse JSON to C# in WinRT, Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone.

Popup WPF Image with Drop Shadow

by Aron Weiler

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

Power of Templates in Control Development Within Windows Presentation Foundation

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.

Programatically Copy and Check In a Full Directory to Sharepoint

by Raymund Macaalay

Programatically Copy and Check In a Full Directory to Sharepoint

Quick and Dirty (But Nice!) ToolTips – Revisited and Interactive

by Philipp Sumi

Here are some quick and dirty tooltips - revisited and interactive

Quick WPF tip: Generic Converter MarkupExtension

by Roberto Sonnino

Quick WPF tip: Generic Converter MarkupExtension

Quick WPF/Silverlight Tips to Make Great Videos of Your Apps

by Roberto Sonnino

Quick WPF/Silverlight tips to make great videos of your apps

RegisterName for StoryBoards in WPF (NameScopes)

by Abhishek Sur

RegisterName for StoryBoards in WPF (NameScopes)

RIA Services through Web Services

by Steve Maier

The same database and the same RIA Services can be used as a Web Service by using some simple additions to the setup of your project.

Ribbon (WPF) – ribbon:RibbonComboBox

by kribo

Ribbon (WPF): ribbon:RibbonComboBox

Sensing the Future with WPF

by Pete O'Hanlon

Sensing the future with WPF

Setting the Display for a WPF Application

by Joel Ivory Johnson

Setting the Display for a WPF Application

Sharepoint 2010 Business Data Connectivity Service 101

by Raymund Macaalay

Sharepoint 2010 Business Data Connectivity Service 101

SharePoint 2010: Client Object Model – An Introduction

by Sohel_Rana

Introduction to SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model

Sharepoint Custom Themes && Custom Cascading Style Sheet(CSS) Guideline

by MJ Ferdous

How to customize theme code for MYTHEME theme

SharePoint Search crawl error on Windows Server 2008 Operating System

by Syed Adnan Ahmed

SharePoint Search crawl error on Windows Server 2008 Operating System

Silverlight 3 & 4 Library Sharing with .NET 4.0 Library or WPF

by User 271009

Silverlight 3 & 4 library sharing with .NET 4.0 library or WPF

Silverlight Task Control For SharePoint 2010 – Example of High Touch Integration

by Abhijit Jana

SharePoint 2010 supports fully integration with Silverlight application either of Silverlight In Browser or as a Silverlight OOB ( Out Of Browser) aplications.

Simple Properties Mapper by Reflection: Stop Copying Manually Each Property of Your Objects !

by jmix90

Simple properties Mapper by reflection: Stop copying manually each property of your objects !

Simplified TextBox focus in WPF 4

by rudigrobler

Simplified TextBox focus in WPF 4

Simplifying Prism WPF Navigation – Synchronous Navigation Confirmation

by User 271009

Simplifying Prism WPF Navigation – Synchronous Navigation Confirmation

by User 271009

Microsoft patterns & practices Prism 4 library and guidance gives WPF and Silverlight developers a very solid foundation for creating business applications.

Skinning in WPF

by Leom Burke

An approach to skinning in WPF using Merged Resource Dictionaries

Some anti-patterns I am experiencing first hand

by Ivan Krivyakov

Some anti-patterns I am experiencing first hand

SSIS Package: Export Data from Database, Daily to New Excel Without Using Script Task

by TheDhruv

Export data from a SQL Server database table to an Excel sheet day wise.

Step by Step Automated Unattended Scripted SharePoint 2010/2013 Installation using AutoSPInstaller

by Melick

How to install three tier SP Farm with Medium Security

Sticky posts in SharePoint Discussion boards

by Rajesh.Sitaraman

Helps to mark the posts as Sticky in Sharepoint Discussion Board.

Storyboarding Apps in PowerPoint

by Timmy Kokke

The Storyboard extension is available for users of Visual Studio Ultimate, Premium and Test Professional.

Stuff – WPF Line of Business Using MVVM Video Tutorial

by User 271009

Stuff – WPF Line of Business using MVVM Video Tutorial

Summary of sessions of European Best Practices SharePoint Conference 2009

by Syed Adnan Ahmed

I wrote down my notes during the European SharePoint Conference held in London and decided to share best practices discussed in the sessions that I had attended.

Syncfusion’s "Succinctly" Series of Free ebooks

by Simon Jackson

Syncfusion’s "Succinctly" series, one of the largest free (and still growing) set of technical books covering everything from languages, to source control systems and beyond.

Taskbar with Window Maximized and WindowState to None in WPF

by Abhishek Sur

Taskbar with Window Maximized and WindowState to None in WPF

Textbox Drag/Drop in WPF

by Pete O'Hanlon

Textbox Drag/Drop in WPF

Tooltip service and tooltip facility of WPF

by Rahman Masudur

Tooltip service and tooltip facility of WPF

Top 5 Pieces of Advice for Users of Microsoft Cognitive Services

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This is a small post, containing a few suggestions for users of Microsoft Cognitive Services.

Tree Structures and Navigation

by Nick Polyak

This post talks about generic Tree structures in C#.

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

by jmix90

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

Understanding MeasureOverride and ArrangeOverride

by DotNetForAll

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

Undoing MVVM

by Pete O'Hanlon

Providing Undo/Redo across VMs (part 1 - simple properties)

Unhandled Exception Handler For WPF Applications

by Abhishek Sur

The article will demonstrate how you could handle Unhandled Exceptions from both UI and NonUI threads for your WPF application.

Unit of Work Design Pattern with Repository and Session

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.

Unmanaged C++ OpenGL Drawing and C# (WinForms/WPF) Interoperability

by pytelg

This post describes how to execute unmanaged C++ OpenGL drawing on Windows Forms and WPF to achieve very fast and reliable graphics rendering over stunning GUI done in WPF or Windows Forms.

Update Controls

by Qwertie

UpdateControls not only keeps your GUI up-to-date, but it also separates the GUI from the rest of the code better than any framework I have seen before.

Use AttachedProperties to Add Behaviors to the Components (Ramora Pattern)

by jmix90

How to use AttachedProperties to add behaviors to the components (Ramora pattern)

user profile synchronization service not starting in SharePoint 2010

by Melick

I had a difficult time to get user profile service synchronization started. Following are the errors encountered to me when I tried to start the synchronization manually as well as through SharePoint.

UserControl/Control : How to Get a Reference to an Element of the Template

by jmix90

In this post, we'll discover how to access the template children by using the FindName method even on UserControl.

Using a Resource Dictionary in WPF

by Rahman Masudur

Few tricks about using a Resource Dictionary in WPF

Using code to find out if your Silverlight/WPF styles are used

by mrjvdveen

I needed to check the available style keys in our main app.xaml file and see which ones are no longer needed. As there are currently 66 style keys in that file and it's growing, I didn't feel much for taking each key and searching through our source code to find out. Time to build a small tool.

Using CSS Selectors for Styling in WPF

by Colin Eberhardt

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

Using Delegate Control in Sharepoint

by PratapReddyP

Using Delegate Control in Sharepoint

Using the WPF Task Dialog Wrapper in an MVVM Application

by Sean A. Hanley

How to use the WPF Task Dialog wrapper in an MVVM application.

Using the Xceed “Busy Indicator” Control

by Steve Naidamast

Using the Xceed “Busy Indicator” control

Using the Xceed “Busy Indicator” Control

by Steve Naidamast

The complexity that comes with the implementation of this type of control stems from the fact that you must have some knowledge of handling multi-threaded processes in a WPF application.

VisibilityControl – The Design

by John Michael Hauck

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

vNext

by rudigrobler

The top requested features for Silverlight, WP7, and WPF

Windows 7 Multitouch Application Development (Part - I)

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

In this post, I will discuss about developing a simple multitouch application using .NET 3.5 SP1.

Windows7 / VS2010 / WPF 4 Demo App

by Sacha Barber

Windows7 / VS2010 / WPF 4 demo app

WinForms.ColorDialog in WPF

by kribo

How to use System.Windows.Forms.ColorDialog in a WPF project

Working with ICollectionViewSource in WPF

by Abhishek Sur

Working with ICollectionViewSource in WPF

WPF 2 Dimensional Editable Grid

by Manoj.Kumar12

I will dive into a way we can create reusable generic 2D grid which is bound to object collections.

WPF Aero Titlebar

by Leung Yat Chun

Titlebar in Aero theme

WPF Bindings

by Ivan Krivyakov

WPF Bindings

WPF Default Binding Format Culture

by Andrei Ion Rînea

WPF Default Binding Format Culture

WPF Drag and Drop using Behavior

by DotNetLead.com

Drag and drop behaviour in WPF

WPF Dynamic TabControl – TabItems

by kribo

WPF dynamic TabControl - TabItems

WPF Enumeration Data Provider

by Stephen Brannan

WPF Enumeration Data Provider

WPF Grid: Showing Tooltip over Empty Space

by Ivan Krivyakov

WPF Grid: Showing Tooltip over Empty Space

WPF Inside Out: Dispatcher

by Arik Poznanski

In this post, we’ll see a few interesting things about WPF’s Dispatcher class.

WPF Master Details MVVM Application

by DevLake

WPF Master Details MVVM Application

WPF Metro Window

by gnikolaropoulos

How to build a sample window (no resizing) with WPF which will look like Metro.

WPF Ninject Dojo: The Data Provider

by Martin Hinshelwood

WPF Ninject Dojo: The Data Provider

WPF Page Navigation – Poorly Documented but Helpful Tip

by Steve Naidamast

WPF page navigation - poorly documented but helpful tip

WPF Scale Transform Behaviour

by Martin Hinshelwood

WPF scale transform behaviour

WPF Single Instance Application

by Arik Poznanski

How to enforce that your WPF application has only one instance

WPF Splash Screen

by Steve Maier

Now, WPF applications can have a simple splash screen for free.

WPF TabControl Focus Behavior With Invisible Tabs (MVVM)

by HeWillem

How to solve the TabControl focus behavior with invisible tabs

WPF Tips and Facts

by Ashish Kaila

Some useful WPF tips.

WPF UIEventHub – MultiSelect and DragnDrop

by Leung Yat Chun

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

WPF User Controls: Do Not Use Merged Dictionaries for Shared Resources

by Ivan Krivyakov

New instance of a merged dictionary will be created for every user control. This can (and does) lead to increased loading time and memory footprint.

WPF/Silverlight Content Ticker/News Ticker Control

by Koder Hack

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

WPF/Silverlight ListBox and equality checking

by Leom Burke

WPF/Silverlight ListBox and equality checking

WPF: A Strange Layout Issue

by Sacha Barber

WPF: a strange layout issue

WPF: A True WPF Browser Control That Can Bend It Like Beckham

by Sacha Barber

WPF: A true WPF browser control that can bend it like Beckham

WPF: Animate Visibility Property - Update

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.

WPF: Beware of Zombie Animations Freezing Your Properties

by Ivan Krivyakov

Preventing zombie animations from freezing your properties

WPF: Center Child Window

by mastermel

Here's a method I've found for centering a window to either its parent or the main window for the application, in WPF.

WPF: Close command on the Window close button

by Steve Psaltis

I could not find a good solution to this anywhere, so here is mine (which I think is a bit of an abuse of attached properties, but hey ho!).

WPF: Context Menu on List Item

by Ivan Krivyakov

WPF: Context Menu on List Item