July 2008 - Posts
In this article Suprotim Agarwal shows how to perform common tasks using the Windows Forms ComboBox control.
Rudi Grobler shows how to create a SmashPack for BabySmash.
Josh Smith covers a wide range of data binding techniques that real world applications use all the time, from working with hierarchical data sources to input validation. It even has a Virtual Lab, so you can work with the source code while reading the article.
Kevin McNeish shows how to recreate the iPhone interface using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Visual Studio 2008, and Expression Blend.
Timmy Kokke explains how to use converters to calculate the sum, largest, average, etc., of items in a ListView.
Sacha Barber explains how to simplify the WPF validation process.
LINQ is out and ready for prime time. LINQ to XSD is an extension of the core LINQ technologies and is at present still in alpha. LINQ to XSD builds on LINQ to XML. By including an XML Schema Document, LINQ to XSD will code generate strongly typed wrapper classes, permitting you to read and write the XML document as easily as you would create and use any objects. In this article Paul Kimmel shows you how to program with LINQ.
Each control in WPF has a Tooltip property that can be accessed through XAML or code behind. In this article Mahesh Chand shows how to create a fancy tooltip in XAML and WPF.
Localization is the process of customizing your application to a particular language, culture or locale. Visual Studio provides support for localizing Windows Forms with much ease. In this article, Suprotim Agarwal shows how to localize Windows Forms and give the user the ability to change to the preferred language at runtime.
Microsoft Excel has a very useful automatic filtering function. Colin Eberhardt shows how to add a similar filter to a WPF ListView control.
Masudur shows how to use a WCF service in an XBAP or WPF browser application.
Suprotim Agarwal shows how to randomly reorder an array using an ArrayList.
An article on how to write a custom RTF parser and converter.
Jaime Olivares shows how to implement an owner-drawn ListBox with radio buttons.
This article examines a small WPF program that allows the user to choose the amount of detail to view about each data item in a list. The concept behind this feature is very similar to the “Views” feature in Windows Explorer on Vista.
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