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July 2007 - Posts

Friday, July 27, 2007 11:33 AM

Update - Thanks MDizzy!

Ask and I shall receive! A few days ago I mentioned that I'd love to get in touch with people that use WPF daily like I do, and then mdizzy starts commenting on my blog! He posts over at his blog, Brownie Points , and based on the images does quite a
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Friday, July 27, 2007 9:02 AM

Binding to local helper objects

"Hack" or "Good Thing" -- What do you all think? I wanted to factor out some minor calculations from one of my screen, things like updating a total based on the sum of some other balances. To support this, I created an object named BatchCalculator and
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Monday, July 23, 2007 1:47 PM

Confused about DependencyProperties

I have a custom control that serves as a generic container for selecting a specific instance of one of a number of types of objects. This container handles the different types by swapping out other user controls as appropriate to what's being selected,
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Monday, July 23, 2007 9:23 AM

Baby Blend Rant

Well not really a rant, more of a lamentation that Blend, like every other [web] designer before it, doesn't really understand the concept of dynamic layout. WPF finally offers a VERY dynamic layout system, but blend, when you move things around still
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Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:59 AM

Anybody out there using WPF?

I realized I have a distinct lack of people on my IM list that I can throw out a quick question regarding WPF to... frustrating when every other tech on my used list has an expert within easy messaging distance... Don't suppose any other WPF experts (or,
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Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:35 AM

Dependency Properties in WPF

I made my first one today... and it "just worked". I have a bunch of Page objects that need to push buttons into a shared space in the window's frame. How do I do this? Easy! I just define a dependency property on the root window of type IList< RoutedUICommand>
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Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:25 AM

The joys of a designer!

and, I'm not talking about the type that plugs into an IDE and lets somebody play at being a prolific programmer by generating thousands of lines of code... I'm talking about the living, breathing, ARTISTIC types... the guys who talk about colors and
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Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:23 AM

What I saw last night...

Last night I was walking past the morgue, and what did I see, but my very own blog, thin an starving from lack of attention... sitting there parked on a gurney waiting for its last breath before being wheeled inside. Well, a sense of deep compassion led
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