August 2009 - Posts
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.
How to introduce smooth transitions between data bound property values.
In this article you will learn how to embed characters like Office Assistant in your Windows Forms and XAML application.
In this article, I am going to show you how to work with Web Browser control in WPF? We will be opening a web site (even a Silverlight enabled web site in WPF application) in the new Web Browser control.
In this post I will present you with my latest addition to my personal user experience arsenal: direct file system synchronization. You will be shown how easily it is for you to setup a FileSystemWatcher to observe file changes on disc, astonishing your user when he least expects.
Two new features to C# 4.0 are optional parameters and named parameters. Optional parameters have been a part of VB.Net but it's now possible to do this in C#. Instead of using overload methods, you can do this in C#. Explore how.
I hope most of you are by now aware that in .NET 4.0, there have been some major changes in Windows Workflow 4.0. Most of the activities of WF 3.x are now changed by new activities. In this article, we will see how a workflow can be designed using procedural activities, how input arguments can be specified in a workflow and how a hosting application can pass these input arguments. We will be using Beta 1 release of VS2010, .NET 4.0.
In this article we will see how to develop a WCF service using Workflow 4.0 and how to use workflow procedural and messaging activities
How to use .NET events to keep a WinForm bound to the screen bounds.
This article presents new controls that extend the stock WPF panels to add animations in response to collection changes (demo video included).
Various WPF elements have Background property which can be set using background color using brush API provided in WPF. One of the cool features in WPF is using Image as background source. “ImageBrush” is the API written for setting background property of the WPF element. Let us see how.
In Part II we gave a bluish style to our DataGrid. In this part we will go through setting up how our data gets displayed within the DataGrid. We will have a look on how to create styles for our cells and cell elements along with creating some new types of DataGridColumns that extend existing ones in order to enrich them with further functionality.
This article explains basics of styles in WPF.
All applications are dependent on data in some form and most developers find themselves writing reams of data access code. Microsoft has been building data binding frameworks for years. Each one promises to solve our data binding woes forever. We're still waiting for the perfect one. Is WPF data binding the one we've been waiting for?
Want to learn more about Styles in WPF? Refer to this article.
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