Handling Focus in WPF
On my WPF course someone asked how we could move the focus to the next control on the page when the enter key is pressed on a textbox. Let's suppose we have a data entry form which mostly is … more
Contents tagged with WPF
LOB Application in WPF
I've been working on a small LoB application to manage sales of a small sales office. I thought it'd be a good idea to put to use my WPF knowledge and use WPF to create this application. The reason is … more
XamDataGrid Validation with NHibernate Validator
One of the good grid controls in WPF world belongs to Infragistics. With all the bells and whistles, there are still some limitation, some are WPF engine limitation and some are not. One thing that is … more
MVVM Validation With NHibernate Validator
Simplest way to do Validation in WPF is usually implementing IDataErrorInfo interface, and do the validation in the indexer's getter. It turns out to be ugly and gets out of hand when your model / … more
MIX 10K
There's been a new competition around for WPFers. You need to submit an application created with WPF technology (being a WPF app or Silverlight) which should not exceed 10 KB in size. Tricky, eh? What … more
WPF Controls : Design-Time Integration
One of the things that affects the overall friendliness of your custom WPF controls - but you may not consider implementing it - is the design-time integration. With Cider continuing to exist in VS … more
WPF Ribbon Control
Scott Guthrie announced the new Ribbon Control a few days ago, so I thought give it a shot to see how it works. Referencing the Ribbon First, create a window and import the control's namespace. If … more
Splash Screen with Prism
The other day, I was working on the WPF application that I'm spending my spare time with. I've been trying to make improvements to startup time of the application's cold-start. With all the … more
Splashing WPF
Since WPF application's startup were slow, specially when cold starting, I always ended up thinking "How can I add a splash screen to my WPF application?", but if you create a splash screen in XAML … more
Caliburn Framework
For the last couple of weeks, I've been busy trying to figure out how Caliburn MVP framework works. If you're in WPF world and you don't know what Caliburn is, you definitely need to take a look. It … more