Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is part of the Microsoft .NET framework used to create rich client user experiences for Windows application.
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WPF ListView Pagination using MVVM Pattern
A few days ago, I was looking for simple pagination example and I decided to write my own version. It is one of my first apps using MVVM Pattern, so I am not sure I did right. I would appreciate if ...
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Noughts and Crosses WPF app
I've been learning C# and was looking for some feedback on my latest project, which is a standard Noughts and Crosses game. Two people are required to play (no AI yet).
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Add or view pattern with MVVM
I have a model called WorkOrder which I want to be able to manage from a single window.
The required operations (for now) are only Insert and view, so this is what ...
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Custom TextBox control: AppendLine
Is there any way to improve this simple addition to the textbox control: appending a new line?
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How to simplify this if else statement?
How would you simplify/improve the readability of this code? Because even after my attempt to improve the readability I think it still looks messy.
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Access View from current/corresponding ViewModel
Sometimes when developing a WPF application, I need to access a certain Window (View) from the corresponding ...
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WPF Calculator Code
I've coded a calculator in C# with WPF as the UI.
I wish to know mainly about these points:
Ways of optimizing
Better techniques, tactics and ways of coding this
All flaws on the surface as well as ...
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Good practice for client code to MVC WebApi service
I have written a very simple web service with MVC and WebApi. Now I'm working on the client code which will be a WPF application (and soon Windows 8 Store/Phone app). What I have done works, but I'm ...
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ViewStateManager for more than just Controls?
Okay - so basically I have a login form that has a couple of 'states' it needs to display (connecting, input credentials, authenticating, invalid credentials, etc...etc...) - in the past I've ...
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Cross Thread Access to Object in ViewModel
This is a fairly straight forward question. I have a C# WPF MVVM application that call a C++ DLL to do some compilation/crunching. To update the UI C# application for progress updates I am using ...
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Possible memory leak with WPF Custom Control?
I might have a potential memory leak with my custom control. Do I actually have one?
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Am I handling “spot the missing DLL” right?
I have a .net 4.5 desktop script which has dependencies on some third party libraries (dll's). These libraries are used in my MainWindowViewModel. I need to check ...
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Adding groups to ListView depending on the data in a list
I have written simple code which loops through a list object and create groups in ListView depending on the data in the list. I have a list object of type ...
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Rewriting WPF GridViewColumn alignment in a less verbose way
I wanted just to right align one column in WPF and I found out that the syntax is not exactly syntetic... Is there a way to make it more syntetic?
Consider that this one colum, but I have 20 columns ...
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Insert Model object effectively using entity framwork
I have a WPF MVVM Application. I have a Customer Model which is generated by an entity framework (Database first approach) and one CustomerViewModel where I ...
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Justification of my current approach and possible suggestions about alternative to a Grid in a StackPanel form for an easier way of inserting new rows
In my real life example I am at a layout stage and before I actually move any further I would like to review my current approach. I am still learning about UI, XAML on WPF technology and I guess I ...
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Optimizing playlist processing
I am trying to process an audio library file which is about 350 KB. My application processes each song on the file gets its meta-data and displays it in a List Box.
The problem is that it takes too ...
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Defining a DataTemplateBase
I have defined some DataTemplates are similar. The templates are like that:
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Keep the sequential nature while updating the UI of the progress of the HTTP request
Let's say that I have a method that makes an HTTP request that will take a long time to finish. While that's happening the UI is not updating because I'm doing it in the UI's thread.
One solution is ...
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Same function, variable parameters and types with lambda
In my current project, I find myself using Dispatcher.Invoke a lot. Before each call I test if the current dispatcher is the right one. I want to write a wrapper ...
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Preventing keydown delay
I created a class to prevent the default delay which happens when holding down the key on Windows Forms. It seems like the class is working correctly but I don't know if I'm using the best practice.
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Managing Contact Collections
I have a WPF/MVVM form that contains sections for managing Recipient Contacts, CC Contacts and BCC Contacts.
Each of the three sections has buttons/ICommands for 'Add', 'Clear', 'Previous' and 'Next' ...
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Lots of Storyboards in XAML, huge file
After spending a few ages writing out every combination of triggers, bindings and storyboards, I finally managed to get my program working. First time working with WPF, so I made a big mess. Now it's ...
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Better method for my property Checking, replacement of switch statement
I'm hoping this is the correct place for this, I'm struggling a little for wording as i'm not sure what you would call this.
Basically, i have a system in place where my datagrid marks cells that ...
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Progress bar in a multi-thread application
I am developing a WPF application and was practising around the multi-threading. I have write the following code
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TicTactics Presentation
This is my take at the current code-challenge, Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe, at least the presentation part.
As I chose to write a WPF application for my game, and this is my very first time fiddling with a ...
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Optimizing a very simple wpf app - attempt on handling 2 buttons with a common event
I am quite new to event programming in C# specially in WPF. I have made a very simple core app which I am planning on extending.
It's very simple as its purpose is learning curve and doing things ...
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Pong game in WPF
This is my first post here and one of my first WPF projects. The game works, but I would like to get some advice regarding what could be done better/differently.
I would especially like to find out ...
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Sort ObservableCollection after added new item
For a WPF application, I have to sort the items in ObservableCollection after Added new item.
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Is this a good user control layout for WPF?
Below is a code snippet of how I have been laying out my WPF control XAML. I do it mainly because I get intellisense in the editor and I can change the implementation of the viewmodel and push the ...
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Facebook OAuth in WPF & C# Example
I am developing a WPF application that requires me to get an Access Token from Facebook using oAuth. After much searching online, I came to the following conclusions:
OAuth must be done in a browser
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WPF Window with different DataTemplates
I have to do a task hard for me and maybe you can help me. I try to design a window dialog to update data from a database view. This database view contains integer, DateTime, string, Time, Boolean ...
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Enabling discard pending changes on DbContext
This code review request is tightly coupled with this SO question, this is the solution I implemented to solve the problem being asked about there.
All my ViewModels get constructor-injected with a ...
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ListView MultiSelect, MVVM and RoutedCommands
As far as I know (and I don't claim to know much about this!), direct binding to ListView.SelectedItems isn't possible in WPF. I've seen work-arounds involving ...
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Is this an effective way of populating a datagrid of comboboxes
The goal is to have a DataGrid of comboboxes, 10 rows, 3 columns. Here's the XAML to create said grid:
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How best to implement a POCO editor which is split over a number of TabItems?
I am currently working on a project which uses the MVVM pattern. I have a POCO which I want to present in an editor and, because the object is composed from a number of smaller, reusable POCOs, I ...
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Filtered wpf textbox
I am tring to make a texbox which filters user input to match specified type, so i can discard some of my validation logic.
For example, if i specify ushort i want ...
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WPF Localisation - using resx
I have a small WPF application which I'm not exactly localizing, but not hard-coding resources either. I know WPF doesn't use .resx files for that purpose, but I exposed the resource strings as public ...
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WPF circle and line drawer solution
I've created a WPF program which can draw lines and circles on a canvas. It works well, but I don't think it's the best solution. How can I make it work better? How would you create this program?
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Can this reactive code be improved?
I have a view model that I'm migrating to RxUI. It exposes a collection of brokers along with a bool indicating whether there is a market (ie. at least one broker). ...
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Single-instance WPF application
This is the code I implemented so far to create a single instance WPF application:
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Performance of WPF datagrid when using DataGridTemplateColumn
I am using DataGrid to show storagehouse occupancy (Occupied-Show Image With a box, Not Occupied-Show Empty Image).
In DataGrid I am using ...
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Does my code conform to modern conventions?
I've spent a few days making the transition from WinForms to WPF, and do not have much time for tutorials as the work needs to be done quickly. I was wondering if anyone could take a look at a sample ...
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MVVM notification messages
I have been looking at a couple of different approaches on how I can notify the UI about messages coming from the ViewModel, and wanted to see if this seemed appropriate or if it is too coupled. (We ...
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improve code for delayed dispatcher invoke
I knocked this up quickly to allow delayed Invoke on the dispacther, along with canceling the existing invocation and replacing with a new one, this allows throttling an action.
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C# based IRC application (with WPF as UI)
I would like to know how I could improve my C# project. I'm not really sure whether or not I'm allowed to just post a link to the Google Code project here, so sorry if it's not allowed, I'll edit my ...
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Is nesting grids a good idea?
I find myself nesting a lot of grids inside grids in WPF.
I just found myself 3 Grids deep, and stopped to think: "Should I be doing this?"
Is there some kind of performance cost?
Is it ...
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Continues If statements
I have a program where it takes the students name and last name and score and saves it. When checking to see if a textbox has information in it, I use ALOT of ...
