In the past, I played a lot with 3D inside WPF. A few days ago, I discovered something awesome : using the power of the Cloud to create beautiful 3D scene. (This is also a…
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WPF 4.5 – Part 13 : binding to types that Implement ICustomTypeProvider
This is the part number 13 of the serie on the WPF 4.5 new features. ICustomTypeProvider is an interface already known in the Silverlight 5 world but it is shipped with full support in WPF…
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 : the recorder encountered a wrong control while recording the last action.
One more quick post on Coded UI tests recording issue. Today, the coded UI test builder tool said to me “The recorder encountered a wrong control while recording the last action.” ! After some search…
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…
WP7 : how to get the version number of my application ?
It’s always a good thing to provide information to the users of your application. One thing which may seem trivial is the version number. In fact it’s a really important information because with it the…
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…
WPF 4.5 – Part 11 & 12 : new features for the VirtualizingPanel
Virtualizing panels are involved when an application’s performance needs to be improved. It provide a base panel for virtualization of children elements inside it. Instead of creating all the UI element which are inside an…
WPF 4.5 – Part 10 : Live shaping (live filtering, grouping and sorting of collections)
For each item list used in a WPF application, a collection view is in fact created and used by the controls. This view enables navigation, filtering, grouping and sorting from the XAML or the code.…
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…