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Hi All, I will be giving 4 hours of real-world training on WPF this Wednesday (Nov. 18th, 2009). If you are new to WPF and wanting to learn how to use WPF to create business applications, this is a great place to start. The cost for this seminar is only...
If anyone is at PDC this week, I will be moderating a session on Exception Management. If you would like to discuss this topic with your other peers at PDC, please stop by! Hope to see you there! Paul
WPF has the flexibility to modify the look of your controls dynamically at runtime with just a few lines of code. Take a look at Figures 1 and 2 and you will see two different views of the same list box and data. To accomplish this, you simply need to...
Unlike Windows Forms, there is no Visual Inheritance in WPF. Luckily you don’t need visual inheritance as you can use User Controls to get a re-usable UI. There are times, however, when you want a base Window class so you can have common functionality...
After my last blog post on “Create a Login Window in WPF”, I had a lot of requests for how to create the same login screen in Silverlight 3. There are actually just a few changes that had to be made to get the same look in feel in Silverlight 3. Figure...
Most business applications require some sort of security system. You can always use Windows Authentication to authenticate a user, but sometimes you might want your own authentication scheme. When you do, you will need to create a login screen for your...
Almost every application has a configuration file used to store global settings. What would be cool is to have a global settings class that reads this data from the .Config file, then can be used to bind to UI elements within your WPF application. This...
When creating a splash screen or to just have a different look for the windows in your WPF application, you might wish to eliminate the border to give it a custom look (see Figure 1). This can be done very easily with WPF. Figure 1: A WPF window that...
In WPF if you want to layout a typical business form like the one shown in Figure 1, most people would use a Grid control with rows and columns. However, you may also use a StackPanel control. While sometimes you might need the re-sizing capabilities...
Not too long ago we received a text file of customer names. The problem with the file is it just had one field "Name". One of the requirements of our database application was to have a first name field and a last name field so our customer could search...
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