This is the third part of the serie on the WPF 4.5 new features. The Dispatcher class is maybe one of the most used in WPF when you start doing thing asyncronously. It is the…
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WPF 4.5 is here : check out the new features !
The last week, every eye was on the build event and the new windows but it was also the occasion of releasing to the developpers a new version of WPF. You can test it by…
WPF 4.5 – Part 2 : Improved WeakEventManager
Memory leaks were, are and always will be a concern in an application. One of it’s classical origin is unsubscribed events handler. The weak event pattern is here to the rescue but it is quite…
WPF 4.5 – Part 1 : Asynchronous data validation
Here is the first post of a serie about the new features of WPF 4.5. Validation of data is often if not always necessary in modern applications. From a long time, WPF provided the IDataErrorInfo…

WPF’s DataGridCheckBoxColumn ElementStyle uses a wrong default value
Today I found out a strange behavior in the DataGridCheckBoxColumn: it was not using the default template I set in the resources for the CheckBoxes and uses the default WPF’s one instead. This happens always…

Convert in code as in XAML: how to get the XAML processor’s converter ?
Sometimes you need to set property on controls from the code and then you realize that this is not like in XAML: these are not strings? No, they are not! This is because the XAML…
Update the WPF UI now: how to wait for the rendering to finish ?
WPF is really awesome to build reactive applications and data binding is here to push useful information inside of the User Interface. All is done magically and it’s wonderfully simple to create an application without…
Mishra Reader, beta 1 is out !
If you are a fan of MetroTwit as I am you’ll be a fan of Mishra Reader. The goal is clearly simple: to become the best Windows Google Reader client. This is done in WPF 4.0…