Create a C# WPF app to read Twitter tweets and retweets via REST API with grouping related users / friends by categories. As a bonus, tweets can be saved in Azure / Cloud, and viewed in an Azure website.
Deriving VirtualizingPanel and OrientedVirtualizingPanel is not possible in WinRT but using some calculation strategies, an efficient emulation is possible
Simple and clean-cut label that user can edit text of during run-time (by double-clicking) which I wrote because the examples I found were either obsolete or added clutter to the interface.
This is a behavior that that will reset ToggleButton derived controls to false (or a specified default value) when the container's visibility becomes false.
When you read the MSDN guidelines to improce WPF's performances you can find that it's a good idea to freeze Freezable objects.It's a quite easy thing to do via the code but it's quite harder to do it directly in the XAML. In this post we will see how to do so.What are freezable...
A generic workaround for auto-generating multiple custom columns in a WPF DataGrid in case where the data class has multiple properties of the same type
This sample is about hiding automatically datagrid columns when all rows of this column are empty.NB: The following code is for silerlight 5 and can be readapt for WPF
Sometimes we need to show an external image directly in WPF.Assume we have a folder that is named images beside of our main's WPF exe file. There is an image in this folder that's named sample.png.Now with the following XAML code, we can show it in WPF directly:<Image...
I had to create a trivial image button for my Silverlight web site. I Googled the web and got tons of tips and suggestions. However, most of them involve several editing steps through resources, template or style. Some require additional tools, such as Expression Blend. In my...
Creating a full-screen window in WPF is quite simple, set WindowState to Maximized and WindowStyle to None. However, a border is still visible on the bottom and on the right sides. In this post we'll discover how to remove it.
This tip presents a ValidationAttribute that can be applied to enumeration properties. The normal RequiredValidationAttribute normally works but if numbers are assigned to the enumeration values, the default value is zero and that may not be valid.
You often read on the web that the DependencyObjects are not marked as serializable and that this is a major drawback of them...But there is a easy way to perform a serialization of these object : use XAMLWriter and XAMLReader :public class MyDependencyObject : DependencyObject{public...
This SQLite Data Object Window base class automates the data updates and the data bindings between the XAML presentation and the SQLite database allowing the minimum of code needed to present and edit SQLite database records.
This tip shows how we can extend a Button control to support suspension of its Click event, in order to perform some animations before the Click event is raised.
It is not straight forward to change the row selected and hover colors on the Telerik RadGridView. This is a ControlTemplate that works, and works with the detail pane.
Validation control with a single validation rule is easy, but what if we need to validate a control using different validation rules. This article tells how to achieve multiple validation on single control in an easy and systematic way.
Normally a popup will stay open until explicitly closed. The Behavior will close the Popup if the mouse is clicked within or outside the Popup area or leaves the Popup area.
Normally, there is no need to ensure that types exactly match when using a Binding. For instance, the Control property double to and int in a ViewModel
This article with help monetize your Xamarin Forms app using Google Admob. This article shares different implementations for Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android.
This roguish way of moving a WorkItem, directly 'in-place', through SQL leaves all of the previous data associations intact, but portends issues with future major updates and current TFS Data Warehousing.