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WPF Treeview DataBinding with Dataset

Pon Saravanan — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:05:00 GMT

Treeview will work if the dataset given is the Relational Database with proper relationships added. And give a name that describes the relationships well. Add a TextBlock for displaying the header table information. In this article we refer categories as the Header. Remember to provide a unique Key for the object.

Weak Events Without The Fuss With A ‘WeakReference’ Event Proxy

Dean Chalk — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:30:00 GMT

We all get clobbered at least once by memory leaks in our shiny new applications. One of the main causes of this is when objects that are expected to be garbage collected are not because we have not (or are unable) to unsubscribe them from the event handlers of longer living (static) objects. The de-facto solution is to implement Microsoft’s ‘WeakEventManager’, but it takes a lot of coding, and adds another layer of complexity to your applications. Wouldn’t it be great to do something a bit easier.......

Creating a Weather Gadget for Windows 7

Shoban Kumar — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:19:00 GMT

In this article we will see how you can develop a Weather gadget for Windows 7 which uses Yahoo Weather API for fetching Weather data. The application will also have some of the latest exciting features of Windows 7 like Thumbnail Toolbar and Progress bar.

A WPF UML Editor

Omar AL Zabir — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:11:00 GMT

PlantUML Editor, built using WPF and .NET 3.5, is an IDE for drawing UML diagram using the amazing PlantUML tool. If you have used PlantUML before, you know you can code UML diagrams super fast without struggling with a designer environment. You can *write* UML diagrams in plain English, following a simple syntax and get diagrams generated on-the-fly.

Windows 7 Multitouch Application Development (Part - I)

Kunal Chowdhury — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:01:00 GMT

Windows 7 came up with lots of goodies including better resource management, better performance, jumplist management, multitouch functionality & many more. Here I will discuss on developing a simple multitouch application using .Net 3.5 SP1.

Simplest Way to Implement Multilingual WPF Application

Abhishek Sur — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:59:00 GMT

Easiest way to handle Globalization in your WPF application.

Asynchronous Method Invocation

Abhishek Sur — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:42:00 GMT

Here I am showing how you can invoke a method asynchronously using delegates and AsyncCallback.

Polyline in WPF

dbeniwal21 — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:13:00 GMT

A polyline is a collection of connected straight lines. This article demonstrates how to create a polyline in WPF and XAML.

Show Parent Child Records in Windows Form like Ms Access

Kirtan — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:36:00 GMT

In this article, I am going to teach you how to show records in a hierarchical view.

Scrolling Text Marquee Control

dbeniwal21 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:24:00 GMT

The following article is a simple sample of a scrolling text marquee control for a Windows Forms application.

Polygon in WPF

dbeniwal21 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:12:00 GMT

A polygon is a series of connected lines which is a closed shape. A closed shape is a shape that has same start point and end point. This article demonstrates how to create and use a polygon in WPF using XAML.

Layered Architecture for WPF Applications

jbe — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:29:00 GMT

Layering is a very useful tool in structuring object-oriented software systems. It helps to organize the types and namespaces into a large-scale structure. The article shows how a Layered Architecture can be applied to a WPF application.

Building a GUI Editor

Ibrahim Ersoy — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:27:00 GMT

In this article I'll show you how to build a simple GUI Editor using C#.

Cropping or Clipping in WPF

Raj Kumar — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:08:00 GMT

The Clip property of an element (defined in the UIElement class) is used to clip a region and represents the geometry that defines the content of an element.

Move windows form without Border

dbeniwal21 — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:26:00 GMT

At time its necessary that we want to move a form without border. So here is the solution to move that type of form.