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‘Silverlight in Action’ on December, Thursday 11

I will be the main speaker at the next workshop organized by DotNetMarche (the .Net User-group I belongs to); the workshop is organized in collaboration with Microsoft and it is part of the official ‘Microsoft Days Community After Hours’ events. I will show the basis of how to build a multi-target (Silverlight...

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01 Dec 2008
[WPF] Considerazioni su M-V-VM

In questi giorni sto studiando a fondo il pattern M-V-VM ((Data)Model-View-ViewModel), visto che quando fu introdotto per la prima volta (ormai 3 anni fa) non lo valutai affatto positivamente poiché ero convinto che avrebbe "sporcato" troppo il pattern MVC, creando confusione sia tra gli sviluppatori...

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 30 Nov 2008
Wrap IList<T> and use it for effective binding in Silverlight and WPF

If you use some ORM tool like NHibernate and your business entities or DTOs have to support collections of other elements, you are forced to use the interface notation IList<T> or ICollection<T> to hold a reference to the real collection implementation (cause usually those ORM tools tend...

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 24 Nov 2008
Three levels master detail with WPF

Binding in WPF is really more powerful respect its counterpart in windows forms. Suppose you have to show this hierarchy of classes in an interface. This is a simple structure where a LogGroup have a collection of LogMessages and each LogMessage has a collection of StackSteps. I have a collection...

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08 Nov 2008
WPF and wrapping text inside elements of a ListView

TextBlock have the possibility to wrap, but sometimes you can get surprised by its behaviour. When I first began to work in WPF I started to use ListView to show complex object, because of the rich possibility to format the output with great flexibility. One day I created this little listview. <ListView...

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08 Nov 2008
XAML Power Toys and Mole

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09 Oct 2008
WPF BagOfTricks and maybe a little bug in setting current date value.

I love wpf, but one of the most annoyng missing controls is a sort of dateTimePicker, luckily we have Kevin’s WPF Bag Of Trick that has a very useful set of controls. I begin to use this library today, I drop a DatePicker control on the page, and on page load I initialize with current [...]

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10 May 2008
WPF, convert System.Windows.Input.Key to char or string

Today I spent half an hour trying to solve a really stupid problem. I have a WPF windows where I have to intercept all char input from the keyboard and handle a char at a time. This is to work with a barcode reader with a keyboard connection. I begin to intercept the event KeyPress, but [...]

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06 May 2008
WPF, IValueConverter and binding

People often look at WPF and XAML only for the possibility to create more appealing interface, but XAML is a lot more, because it is a way to create object with xml syntax. Here is an example on how to make some advanced binding. Suppose I have some objects with a property called StartingTime that is...

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02 Apr 2008
WPF Swap the entire content in a column based on content

In previous post, I demonstrated how to change the content of a grid based on the content of a property of bound object, now I want to take that example further. In the old example I change the source of an image, but now I want to set a complete different template based on content, [...]

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 27 Mar 2008

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