Yet another blog about WPF, Surface, SL, MVVM, NUI.... - Tag - DependencyObject

Execute a command on a specified control when clicking on a button

JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:07:00 +0200

Today another example of the powerful ramora pattern : execute a RoutedCommand on an Control when you click on a button outside of the aimed control scope. When is it useful ? : for example when you use the infragistics grid (xamdatagrid) and you want to execute the command which remove the selected row from a button outside of the grid. You... Read Execute a command on a specified control when clicking on a button

Binding to the selected items of a ListBox (or an another items controls)

JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:03:00 +0200

A problem you often meet when using MVVM is to get the selected items of an items control, especially Listbox. You can easily bind the selected item or the current items but when multi selection comes in the way, it becomes harder because the SelectedItems (with an 's' property is not available to binding). In this article we will discover an... Read Binding to the selected items of a ListBox (or an another items controls)

MVVM - How to integrate the Office Ribbon respecting the pattern (especially the commands)

JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:01:00 +0100

Synopsis The ribbon controls - introduced by office 2007 -are available for free on the Microsoft Office web site (French users should set the language to "english" to access the ressources). They can leverage the user's experience of your application and are pretty simple to use. When I wanted to add them into one of my application I realized... Read MVVM - How to integrate the Office Ribbon respecting the pattern (especially the commands)

DependencyProperties or INotifyPropertyChanged ?

JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:31:00 +0100

When you want to make an object binding-aware you have two choices : implement INotifyPropertyChanged or create DependencyProperties. Which one is the best ? Let's try to answer this question ! How to implement INotifyPropertyChanged Declaring that your class is implementing INotifyPropertyChanged adds an PropertyChangedEventHandler that you... Read DependencyProperties or INotifyPropertyChanged ?

CREATE, LAUNCH and CONTROL a WPF animation FROM CODE

JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:30:00 +0200

The problem Sometimes you need to animate your specific object and for this purpose there is the WPF animation. Here are the prerequireds : The property you want to animate must be a DependencyProperty, The property must so be a part of a DependencyObject, Your object must implement IAnimatable to be able to launch the animation. The... Read CREATE, LAUNCH and CONTROL a WPF animation FROM CODE

Use dataBinding and DependencyProperty with a non-WPF or extern object

JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:52:00 +0200

Today we are going to learn how we can uses the powerful data binding of WPF even on non-WPF objects. The problem: when to use this solution ? Sometimes you need to use the databinding with an object that you have not created and you can't use inheritance. For example I wanted to use a Mogre Camera and build some WPF animation with it and I... Read Use dataBinding and DependencyProperty with a non-WPF or extern object