Thomas Lebrun
All you need about WPF, Silverlight & LINQ !
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[Windows Seven] How to use biometric authentication in your .NET applications ?
Currently, most of the laptops have a lot of features (SmartCard reader, etc.) that are not used.
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[WPF / MVVM] How to get data in “design time” ?
When you are working with WPF and MVVM Pattern, you can regret that the designer doesn’t get data, in design time, that allow him to simply modified the graphical interface.
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[WPF] An addin to quickly generate your business objects compatible with WPF !
When I work on projects, I often need to create business objects (Customer, Country, etc.) and I would like to be able to done this step very quickly.
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[Silverlight 3] SaveFileDialog and the exception IOException: “The directory name is invalid”
I encountered a bug when I tried to use the control SaveFileDialog, available in Silverlight 3. Indeed, every time I used the method OpenFile, I received the following exception:
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[WPF] How to bind a control to a property defined in the Settings ?
Settings are a very powerful feature of .NET applications that allows developers to store some values in the settings of the application:
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[WPF] How to develop and editable Textblock ?
Here is another request that a friend of mine asked me recently. To achieve this, I’ve just create a custom control that contains a TextBlock and a TextBox (which is hidden) controls.
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[Blend] XAML & Code Intellisense in Expression Blend 3
Version 3 of Expression Blend, which is available since last week, comes with a lot of new features. In this features, we can find Intellisense in XAML files:
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[WPF] Another sample of WPF application using the pattern MVVM
To help new developers, here is a sample WPF application (that use the Northwind database) developed by using the pattern MVVM (Model View ViewModel).
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[WPF] How to assign a dynamic resource from code-behind ?
When working on WPF projects, it’s mandatory to assign resources to user interface controls. When you work in XAML, it’s pretty simple: you just need to use the MarkupExtension named StaticResource (or DynamicResource if the resource is going to be modified):
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[WPF] How to gray the icon of a MenuItem ?
Here is a question that a friend of mine asked me recently. Indeed, as a beginner with WPF, it thought that setting the property IsEnabled = false, on the MenuItem, will disable it. So, the following code: