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Data binding is one of the most powerful features of WPF/Silverlight. It allows developers to achieve more with less code. However, when building user interfaces with WPF/Silverlight, you often need to create your own value converters. A common mistake is to implement custom value converters for each and every binding that requires one. Of course value converters can be generalized an re-used. In this article I will show you the source code of my library of generic custom value converters and I will demonstrate in which scenarios you can use them. more
2008-07-17 - English - .NET, WPF, Silverlight
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WPF UIAutomation is a framework from Microsoft to automate Windows applications. In this article I will demonstrate a lot of features (invoking button clicks, focusing controls, entering data, sending keystrokes, subscribing to events, ...) and compare it with the open-source project White. more
2008-06-06 - English - .NET, UI Automation, WPF, WinForms
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This short article covers the most important features of the open-source White framework and the Microsoft UISpy tool. White can be used for UI automation and my C# .NET application demonstrates how to automate the Windows calculator by sending keystrokes, clicking on buttons and menus, pressing function keys, accessing textboxes, ... more
2008-05-04 - English - .NET, UI Automation, WPF, WinForms
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This small article about the Windows Presentation Foundation will demonstrate how to use a WPF ProcessingControl and a BackgroundWorker thread to create responsive user interfaces and how to give visual feedback about the progress. more
2008-03-11 - English - .NET, WPF
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This post briefly describes how to integrate a WPF user control in a Windows Forms application. It also provides a workaround to solve the background color problem of the ElementHost class. This workaround will demonstrate how you can map properties between Windows Forms controls and WPF UI elements. more
2008-02-21 - English - .NET, WPF, WinForms
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A few examples about .NET WPF applications using LINQ to SQL. This article will describe how to create nice looking treeviews which are populated with data using LINQ to SQL (or LINQ to Entities). Of course resources, templates, styles, datatriggers, value converters, ... will be utilized. Most examples will also work with Silverlight. more
2007-12-22 - English - .NET, WPF, Silverlight, LINQ to SQL
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In this article I will show you how to create a ValueConverter class which can be used in a WPF application to display the pictures of the Outlook contacts. more
2007-12-08 - English - .NET, Office, Outlook, LINQ, WPF
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