WPF introduces new property system to us. Every WPF objects that is inherited from DependencyObject inherently supports Dependency prope...
Showing posts with label XAML. Show all posts
Showing posts with label XAML. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Tangrams in WPF
Tangram is a popular Chinese game, where a player is given with set of blocks and asked to form a specific shape (given an outline), the...
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Progress Control Animations for Windows Store Apps with XAML and C#
In this post, I'm going to show you how you can create a circular animation in a metro style application (XAML/C#). In my case, we n...
XAML Coding Convention
Over the past year, I have built my own coding conventions for C#. I also always manage to convince my colleagues to follow my coding co...
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Performance: Measuring memory consumption of StackPanel
In this set of tests I've decided to measure the memory usage of non-virtualized StackPanel in Windows Phone 8 environment. I have al...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Professional Windows 8 Programming with C# and XAML
It is an exciting time to be a Windows developer. The arrival of Windows 8 is a complete game changer. The operating system and its devel...
XAML Binding Basics 101
Hello Windows 8 XAML developer. XAML is a declarative UI language; its most powerful feature is surely data binding. But, I admit, with s...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Windows 8 XAML Tips - Detect App Deactivation
Detecting when a Windows 8 Store app is deactivated isn't as easy as you would expect. In the Windows Phone project templates, you wi...
Monday, August 27, 2012
Visual Studio 2012 Metro Styles for WPF
Although there are still serious discussions about whether the "Metro" design concept from Microsoft is good or not, WPF develo...
Step by Step Creating UserControl : DataGridView With Paging
I have Created this UserControl for those who are looking for DataGridView paging functionality. So many times we are using DataGridView ...
NotifyIcon with WPF applications
NotifyIcon is an utility form System.Windows.Forms which can be used by any application to invoke the default notification from the syst...
Silverlight 5 Modal Windows
You can display multiple Window instances in trusted, out-of-browser applications. This enables you to create non-modal dialog boxes, tea...
Windows 8 & Data Binding. Part 4–Data Conversion
In Part 3 of this little mini-series on data binding in Windows 8 we looked at Element Binding. Today, we'll take a look at Data Conv...
First Look at Telerik RadNumericBox for Windows 8–HTML
Hello and welcome to the second part of our "Getting Started" with Telerik's Windows 8 UI Controls. In this post, we are go...
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
WPF Stylizing RowDefinitions & ColumnDefinitions
My favorite part of programming in WPF is the ease with which we compartmentalize the application components. Every Page or UserControl o...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Integrating Services into a WPF Composable Application
In two previous columns, I've showed how to build a composable application in WPF with Prism and Unity. A composable application cons...
Reading QR Codes In Your WP App
I have recently been working on an application for a client that needs to read QR codes. This has lead to some interesting findings. Ther...
Debugging WinRT/XAML bindings
Visual Studio 2012 may not (yet?) support debugging of XAML bindings debugging in WinRT/Metro-style applications in a way we're used ...
Saturday, July 21, 2012
WP Button Default Style
Just a quick tip of getting the Button default Style. NOTE: This article assumes that have installed Expression Blend. You can also take ...
Custom Styles and Templates in WP: Intro
A Style is basically a collection of property settings applied to multiple instances of the same type. Style mechanism in Silverlight for...