WPF Articles (53) - Page 3

WPF Tutorial : Styles, Triggers and Animations : 7 

In this article, I have specified how you could use Style, Triggers and animation in your WPF application to make your application more attractive, interactive and user friendly.

Simple Grid Implementation with ICollectionView in WPF 

ListView is one of the better control in WPF which have lots of flexibilities and empowers to build Grid like control easily. In this article I will discuss how easily you could use ListView to create Grid with Filtering, Grouping, Sorting, Navigating or even with In Place Editors to edit control. This is all in one sample for you.

WPF Tutorial : Concept Binding 6 

Binding is the most important topic of WPF programming. In this article I have demonstrated how you could employ DataBinding to ensure that the Presentation logic is separated from the View and also give simple demonstration on how the DataBinding concept works. The article also gives you the basics of CommandBinding and MultiBinding.

RibbonUI feature in WPF 

Ribbon Bar was introduced with Office 2007 has lately been very much popular for latest UI development. Microsoft has replaced the old Menu based application tool with more flexible and easy to learn Ribbon strips in many of its applications. So it is time for other developers to use it in their own applications. The Ribbon UI feature that was released recently bridges this to us.

WPF Tutorial - Dependency Property 

WPF introduces a new property system which is enhanced by Dependency property. There are many improvements of Dependency Property over CLR properties. In this article I have discussed how you could create your own Dependency Property and to work with various features of it.

WPF Tutorial - TypeConverter & Markup Extension 4 

XAML as an Extensible Markup Language has great flexibilities to create objects in XAML itself and do functions like automatic binding, Conversion of Data, etc. Markup Extension allows you to truly extend your markup upto a certain extent to elevate you to write less code and design your application with richer extent. In this article I will discuss how to use existing TypeConverters and MarkupExtensions and also will show you how to create custom implementation of both of them.

Pluggable Styles and Resources in WPF with Language Converter Tool 

In this article I have showed how you can build pluggable Resources for styles, Languages or any static objects etc. Therefore building a new style doesn't hampers your code and you can easily plugin any new style to the application inspite it is already in production environment. I have added a language converter tool, which will generate multi lingual resources for you.

WPF Tutorial - Layout-Panels-Containers & Layout Transformation 2 

This article describes the basics of WPF application, how you can deal with layout, placements of controls and position. The article also introduces few uncommon controls like UniformGrid, InkCanvas etc.

WPF Tutorial - A Beginning : 1 

The article will guide through the basics of WPF programing with in-depth knowledge about the architecture and the working principles of WPF programs. The article finally creates a sample "Hello World" application to step you into new foundation. Even though I have started from the beginning of WPF, I marked it as Intermediate article, as I will also go indepth of all the techniques while discussing it. This is the first part of the WPF turorial. Stay tune for others.

SpellChecker in WPF 

WPF has an inbuilt feature of Spellchecking. In this article I have explored the SpellCheck functionality of WPF TextBoxBase object. CustomDictionaries introduced with WPF 4.0 is also discussed with this article

Working with WebBrowser in WPF 

This article demonstrates how you can use WebBrowser control to show html document within your WPF application. You will find the basic usage of powerful WebBrowser control that comes with WPF. You can also find how you can communicate the document from external wpf application and vice versa. A sample application is also provided to demonstrate each of these.

WPF Tutorial : Fun with Border & Brush 3 

In this article you will find most of the interesting things with Border and Brush elements.

Define Base Class for Window / UserControl 

Here I have showed a simple trick to define base class for WPF Window and UserControl.

Resolution Independent UI 

It is a common problem to fix resolution related issues. Here I will demonstrate, how your UI will fix itself automatically using few tricks.

Understanding the Converter in DataBinding 

Converter and ConverterParameter comes very handy while working with WPF Data Binding. You can manipulate the data bound to a value using IValueConverter. The article demonstrates how you can use it in your solution with a sample application.