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Serialization for Rapid Application Development: A Better Approach
Daniel Gidman shows you how to serialize and deserialize your objects simply and easily.
Writing Your Own GPS Applications, Part 1
In this two-part series, Jon Person will show you how to write a commercial-grade GPS application.
10 Things I Didn't Know About WPF Data Binding
In "10 Things I Didn't Know About WPF Data Binding", Rudi Grobler talks about less-than-obvious things he discovered about WPF data binding while building an n-tier application.
How to Write Well-Behaved WPF Controls
This article presents tips on how to write WPF controls that consistently apply styles and templates.
WPF Business Application Series, Part 2
This is the second in a series of articles on writing WPF business applications in VB.NET using Visual Studio 2008. In it I cover the FormNotification control, binding to objects that implement IDataErorrInfo, rendering the Form Notification popup in...
WPF Drop Shadows on The Cheap
One of the questions I get most often from designers and almost never from developers is: How can I get drop shadows into my application without killing my performance? It is, of course, easy as punch and pie to get drop shadows into your application. You can just use the Bitmaps Effects panel in the Appearance section.
WPF Diagram Designer, Part Two
In the first article I have shown you how to drag, resize and rotate elements on a canvas. Today we are going to add further features that are essential for a typical diagram designer: rubberband selection, multiple selection with keystrokes (LeftMouseButton...
WPF Diagram Designer, Part One
In this first article of the series, I will show you how to drag, resize and rotate any content on a Canvas. By "any content," I mean any object you can assign to the Content property of a ContentControl. Since that property is of type object...
TIP: Changing the Selected Item's Backcolor in a ListBox
Recently, I ran across an issue where I needed to control the background color of the selected items in a Windows Forms ListBox control. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that not only was such a capability not present in the properties, but that...
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