In this blog post I will show you how to create a 2D #XAML app which will be able to display a 3D view (holograms) and then how to go back to the 2D view…
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Windows Phone : localize your App name
When you build a Windows Phone App, you for sure take some time to translate it in several language. By default there is no easy way to translate the app name but you can do…
Windows 8.1 #XAML new theme management in your Windows Store Apps
Did you remember Windows 8 ? The theme of your app was set once at the launch and you could’nt change it dyamically or set once by control. This was really annoying in some case…
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…
Windows 8 : how to detect the orientation and the layout state of a metro app ?
Metro applications and windows 8 is designed to be runned on a PC. This is even better if this PC is a tablet 🙂 (but an eeepc is too small)! If the tablet has the…
Windows 8 : Metro’s Grid Application – what, how and when ? – EDITED
Windows 8 is here and Visual Studio 2011 comes with it hand in hand. As you may already have read/seen/watch, there is a new set of applications coming named as ‘metro’. Visual Studio 2011 then…
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…
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…