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I recently had some issues with one of my projects where the application settings would just silently fail. It turns out that the XmlSerializer doesn’t like the Uri class because it has no default constructor. It turns out I’m not the first one to notice...
I stumbled upon an interesting project today called Bindable LINQ which I have given the nickname BLINQ in the vain of DLINQ, XLINQ, PLINQ etc. What this does is make LINQ queries work with WPF binding, which really should be a part of LINQ to begin with...
I was recently in the need of a DataGrid for a WPF project and turned up this: http://www.codeplex.com/wpf . The WPF toolkit has, what appears to be, a WPF version of the Silverlight DataGrid (probably other differences). I haven’t gotten a change to...
Last night I presented for the Mankato .NET User Group on Windows Presentation Framework and a question came up about skinning. Programmatically changing styles in a way similar ASP.NET themes. This piqued my interest so I thought I would give it a try...
I’ve been spending some of my free time on my Product Key Manager project and finally posted some screenshots on CodePlex. The next version will have quite a few changes affecting the UI, XML handling, and data access. I’m cleaning up the UI and attempting...
I ran across a problem that took me nearly a week to solve in my Product Key Manager project. I was using some Vista icons from the Visual Studio 2008 Image library and was having really weird problems where some, but not all, icons would show up the...
I bought a copy of Programming Windows Presentation Foundation by Chris Sells and Ian Griffiths around the time it first came out while WPF was still in Beta more than two years ago. I started reading it and at some point I got distracted and stopped...