Videos are everywhere and specially in Windows 8 app. Using a Windows Azure’s blob to store them is a good solution and this what we choose in on of the app we build in my…
XAML UI
Windows 8 Metro apps – a lot of icons are available out of the box !
In Metro apps, the Metro design is everywhere and that’s pretty cool ! When you start an application, you want and need it to be compliant with this theme and one main part of it…
The Techdays’ code is here !
Hi everyone, The techdays are over and it was a very good year ! I was a speaker in two sessions, one with Thomas on WPF 4.5 and one another with Luc on WPF Memory…
How to bind an ItemsControl to an Enum with localized descriptions
Today, it’s a blog on a tip to use the values of an enum as the source of an ItemsControl (ListBox, ComboBox, ListView, etc.) and display them nicely using attributes. We’ll provide a localized description…
Coded UI tests : my TextBlock is not found, how to find it ?
In the previous post, we have seen that setting the AutomationId can greatly help us when we want to perform some UI Tests. Todyay, I struggled with a problem which seems common after some digging…
Coded UI tests : AutomationId or how to find the chose one (control) !
In my previous post on Coded UI tests, we have seen how to make a control discoverable by a Microsoft UI Automation client including the Coded UI tests builder. This is a first step and…
MVVM : De la découverte à la maîtrise – my book is out !
MVVM is the pattern to know when building WPF, Silverlight, Windows phone and even WinRT (for what I know!) application. There is already some good books in english which can help the developers to discover…
WPF 4.5 – Part 7 : Accessing collections on non-UI Threads
Here is the seventh (OMG !) post on the WPF 4.5 new features. Collections are a part of every application and their management is maybe the first thing you learn to deal with in WPF.…
UPDATE: WPF 4.5’s MarkupExtension : Invoke a method on the ViewModel / DataContext when an event is raised.
We have seen in a previous post that WPF 4.5 enable the use of custom markup extensions to provide event handlers. In this post we’ll see that we can execute a method on the DataContext…
WPF 4.5 – Part 6 : Markup Extensions for Events
The first time I read about this new feature and its description, I just shake my head and thought : “what is this ?”! Then Rob Relyea, the ex-PM of the WPF team and Fabien…
My book (french)
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