WPF is a graphical subsystem for rendering user interfaces in Windows-based applications.
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How to properly organize multiple WPF/Entity Framework applications that share resources?
Company A is building 5 separate in-house WPF applications, and they would like to share UserControls, ResourceDictionaries, and ADO Entity Data Models between each project. They would also like to ...
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Recommended architecture for small enterprise app run on win7 (intranet) [closed]
I have a spaghetti code monstrosity of a WPF application I developed years ago and deployed in an enterprise intranet setting using microsoft ClickOnce. I am looking to rebuild it from scratch and I'd ...
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Where to call OnPropertyChanged
With WPF and MVVM, properties of the ViewModel are bound to UI elements. When a property changes, its set accessor calls OnPropertyChanged which in turn raises the PropertyChanged event of the ...
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How should I store readonly data to deploy with my application?
I'm developing a desktop application, and this application requires some information to run, but it doesn't change any of this information (the data must be loaded on every execution of the app, but ...
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Using an online database for multiple users to store their data
I am considering changing my wpf application to use a online database instead of a local XML file.
I have read some tutorials about binding data grids to Mysql database tables.
But what I don't ...
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Alternative to ObservableCollection in c# wpf MVVM
I am new to wpf c# and MVVM approach. I have a working program that demonstrate the MVVM approach in wpf c# (by copying some code from the internet and applying it to may program). I have used ...
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Associate selection from GUI with executable code
I am currently writing a GUI for a C# application that adheres to the following software requirements (and am struggling with the conceptual design):
Have a GUI with some choices of different ...
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MVVM Commands - one command for everything or multiple commands?
In my last company, on handling view commands, in the ViewModelBase there were one central command implemented, like
public ICommand ToolCommand { get; set; }
And in the ViewModelBase, it's been ...
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Background layer for e-mail actions
My application features an e-mail layer (IEmailHandler) that implements various protocols (via IImapHandler, IPop3Handler etc.).
Now when the user logs in, we fetch all their e-mail accounts (could ...
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Stateless vs Stateful ViewModel
Here are two links which briefly describe the difference between the two:
stateless, stateful
In short in the "Stateless" scenario we bind views directly to models, view models just expose the whole ...
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Knowledge base UI pattern
In our database backed (C# WPF / Entity Framework) application, we want to build a system to enter, store, display and search arbitrary content linked to our main entity. The challenge here is to find ...
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Is there a good formal pattern to manage state in MVVM?
I have started learning about Redux and React in the web-world, and the more I learn about it the more I'm realizing how painful state management is in the desktop-world with WPF's MVVM-style ...
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Should I use BackgroundWorker in Pipeline pattern?
I am planning the implementation of a Pipeline pattern as seen in this MSDN article. This is a WPF application for which I need to monitor progress of each stage of the pipeline in order to display it ...
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How to find existing UserControl and Window at Runtime
We have a LOB Application where I want my users to be able to create themselves a Menu (Left-handed main menu like a webpage). The "poweruser" creates menu, add some security and then the final users ...
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Dictionary-Sorting in bigger projects
My concern is how to handle ResourceDictionarys in a WPF (MVVM)-Project. I usually only create small Projects, so it doesn't matter that much, but since I created a Project-Template to handle some of ...
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How to manage dbContext in a multi-user application?
I put together my first line-of-business app using WPF/MVVM/EF6(db-first)/MSSQL and realised that multiple users could not see each others' changes because I was using one dbcontext and keeping it ...
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Why does ObservableCollection require all changes to be made on the UI thread?
And is there any danger to making my own INotifyCollectionChanged implementation that doesn't?
I'm trying to make a class library contains a Log class, which in turns contains some sort of observable ...
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.net Windows app in a web page [closed]
I am developing a feature related to Microsoft Outlook which has support only for Windows library.
However, I have to put this into a web page for the users. In the process of consuming the windows ...
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How to Manage Privileges in C# WPF applications
I'm writing my first "large" program in C# and WPF. It's a Database system (MySQL) that has three main items, Contracts, Companies and People. I have the main UI down for the Companies section of the ...
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Best practice to extend Model in View Model
I'm facing an issue where I have a Model which I want to implement a GUI for. As I'm exploring MVVM and WPF I will of course use a View Model between the View and Model. I will also have a need to add ...
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Switch complex WinForms app to WPF MVVM
This question is connected with my older question C# Application GUI design dependent on configuration.
I have built quite big WinForms application working in industry for a few years. It ...
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C# .NET MVVM software architecture and naming conventions
I am currently working on a software using C# .NET and WPF with the MVVM pattern.
Though the software is almost done, I have been discussing our architecture for a long time and I would like to get ...
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Modular Filter Architecture for WPF
I am creating a little stock-management tool for private use.
I have different views, which need similar but different filters. As an example I have a "current stock" list where I can filter for ...
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What are potential problems when write business logic code in GUI as MVVM pattern
Currently, I'm implementing MVVM pattern for a WPF application but not 100% no code behind, sometimes I put some business logic code into GUI and so what are potential problems for this? Thanks
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TreeView items with attached 'quick action' buttons
I’m building a visual hierarchy of objects based on the TreeView control. Each level within that hierarchy corresponds to a different kind of object, and as such it’ll be implemented as a separate ...
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Azure BLOB grained access
I have a standalone WPF desktop application which gathers data from Digital-to-Analog converter boards, computes, analyzes this data and then it creates binary files (proprietary format) with the ...
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Will TDD really save bug fixing time for WPF/MVVM
I'm looking for an update .net 4.5 WPF+MVVM+TDD tutorial for my team.
I have found only one good tutorial
https://deltaengine.fogbugz.com/?W199
My goal is to learn Test Driven Development using WPF ...
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What should the files and folder (Core, Assets, Common, Models, Resources, Views) in my project represent?
I am a novice programmer who has inherited a software project that contains the following files and folders. The project is using C# and WPF. What should I expect to find and continue putting inside ...
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How to choose NOT to use a framework (Caliburn.Micro, etc.) in a given MVVM application?
I have once started a MVVM/WPF project, which was eventually built and deployed, and for that I studied a lot of the Caliburn.Micro MVVM Framework. The fact is: I ended up not using Caliburn.Micro for ...
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Where to create a file in WPF/MVVM
I'm building a WPF/MVVM application that takes input from the user and generates an output document which it saves in a temporary folder and opens for display in the native application (e.g. MS Word). ...
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What does “Stateful” means in Stateful ViewModel in MVVM
I was reading about some XAML patterns, and there was the Stateful ViewModel, according to what I read it has nothing different than what we as just the "ViewModel".
Here's a description for example :...
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Hierarchical ViewModels and tracking IsDirty/PropertyChanged events
I have a set of ViewModels depicted like in the below picture.
And, I have a couple of commands AcceptCommand, CancelCommand in the Top Level View Model that are bound to Apply, Cancel buttons ...
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Choosing the right design pattern/architecture for a scenario
I have a situation, in which I would like your opinion about the best approach that I should take.
Let's consider 10 classes (obj001, obj002 etc.) all which represent some business entities, and are ...
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Should UserControl's be Views in an XAML MVVM application (WPF or Store app)?
I am about to use Caliburn.Micro for a new XAML Store app (not sure what to call it nowadays - does not appear to be called a "Windows Store app" any longer).
The documentation (see Simple Navigation ...
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Best style to use multiple custom UserControls in a Grid
I have the following:
A MainWindow;
with Children on the MainGrid in the MainWindow:
ContentControl, displays the main content of the program and has a taskbar at the bottom for user interaction
...
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Switch Configuration of Several .Net Programs for Several Sections in a Simple Way
We build a highly configurable .Net Client/Server application.
(Client is C#/WPF, Server is C#/WebService)
There is a single code base, but each customer has its own 'profile'.
The profile contains:...
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Productivity using .Net WPF for large ERP (LOB) desktop applicatons ~1500 forms\dialogs [closed]
I am wondering if WPF will fit in my case:
We want to refactor an old legacy application written in a 4GL language with about 1500 forms\dialogs. We want to do that in .Net (desktop application), now ...
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What is the best way to allow a user to specify a SQL server and database from a Windows application?
I am working on building a Windows application that will require a connection to at least two different Microsoft SQL Server databases (for example, a source and a target), which may or may not be on ...
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Unit testing when it's harder to come up with concrete cases than write the logic
I have little experience with unit testing, but at the project we're working on right now we decided to do unit testing. The project is a WPF/Entity Framework application, and the part I'm being ...
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WPF and data in the cloud
I need to create a WPF app that users will use on one machine and the manager wishes to use at home in the evenings. I have already suggested a web app which they don't want to do so suggested hosting ...
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Communication/Updates between units of works/entity framework contexts, colliding with user changes
I'm developing a WPF application using Entity Framework for my database communication. The application has a hierarchy of tabs where each tab has a db context. Each tab allows the user to view some ...
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Better and cleanest way to bind a ICommand to a RelayCommand
By reading various source code, I see that there is different ways of binding an ICommand to a RelayCommand :
From the constructor
MyAwesomeViewModel() {
this._fooCommand = new RelayCommand((x)...
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Wpf: Event driven vs MVVM design pattern
I'm a beginning coder and I've been working on a WPF app for several months now and struggled to implement anything in MVVM due to time constraits to learn so I coded my program the only way to knew ...
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In WPF, should I base my converters on types or use-cases?
I'm looking for some advice on how to write my WPF value converters. The way I'm currently writing them, they are very specific, like (bool?,bool) => Brush, i.e. I'm writing each converter for a ...
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Single Identity for Desktop and Web [closed]
I'm building a system has both a WPF desktop application as well as an Asp.net MVC application.
I need a common user identity component so that user can log on to either one with the same credentials....
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UI Applications and operations in background threads
I am not really sure about what is the best way to deal with operations executed in background threads in an application I am writing.
I am writing it in C# and I am following the MVVM design pattern....
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Have I created a Big Ball of Mud?
I'm working on a WPF application, trying to stay strict in separating View, ViewModel and Model.
My application has a few different views in a relatively flat hierarchy. There is one view for editing ...
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Filtering common starting/ending characters from array/list of strings
Ok so for example I have an array of strings with each string as below:
364VMS1029
364VMSH920
364VMSH192
364VMSU839
364VMN2382
364VMR223
364VMR2X3
364VMN829
364VMN8757
364VMN831
How can I ...
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Encapsulate multiple properties into a single class to use as a custom DependencyProperty
My application is a WPF project implemented in C# .NET (4.5) using an MVVM architecture with no code-behind in the View. In order to eliminate the coupling between the View and the ViewModel I'm ...
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What is the best approach to storing a multi-dimensional array with unknown bounds?
I'm trying to store content scraped from several lyric and chord websites into separate variables into either a multi-dimensional array, or into separate string arrays, but I've been stuck trying some ...
