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

Amazing WPF Controls / JetPack Theme updated !

JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:56:00 +0200

Hello, I have updated my previously introduced control library on codeplex. I received a lot of comments because the jetPack theme was not working fine bacause of some animation. It is now fixed and I want to thank everyone for the feedback !__ Here are the list of the available updates: JetPack Theme is now building and working fine at... Read Amazing WPF Controls / JetPack Theme updated !

[UPDATED] How to call the method from the base of the base of the current class ? (base.base.MyMethod)

JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com — Wed, 11 May 2011 23:56:00 +0200

Today I encountered a tricky need in some custom control. It was inheriting from the TabControl but I didn’t want all its feature. Especially I didn’t want it to update the SelectedContent dependency property because it was keeping a strong reference to a ViewModel and keeping it away from the garbage collector.

The problem is that the TabControl do this in an event handler of the ItemContainerGenerator’s StatusChanged event. This subscription is made in the OnInitialized method. This one is marked as protected and virtual so I could override it to do nothing but if had do so I would have loose all the work done in the base class of the TabControl which... Read [UPDATED] How to call the method from the base of the base of the current class ? (base.base.MyMethod)

Introducing the amazing WPF controls library on Codeplex !

JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:19:00 +0200

Hello everyone, I am pleased to announce you the creation of the Amazing WPF controls library on Codeplex ! It will contains the differents controls I describe and/or peel on this blog. I will try to make an article for each control added to the library. Here is a list of the currently available controls : An headered control (the one... Read Introducing the amazing WPF controls library on Codeplex !

How to create an hand writing to text control (ink recognizer)

JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:01:00 +0200

When building a (multi)touch application you may need one nice feature : translate hand-written text to real words. This open a whole new world full of possibilities like starting some actions when keywords are recognized or simply allow the users to write some text for later use.

In this post we'll see all the step to create an hand writing to text control and how to tune it.

Specifications The HandWritingToText controls translate the text written with it's hand by the user into "computer text". The final purpose is to triggers some actions when a specific keyword is recognized and it'll so be able to recognize only one word at a time and not a whole text. The recognized text will be published via an event and... Read How to create an hand writing to text control (ink recognizer)

How to create your own control library (how-to + tips)

JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 23:27:00 +0200

Reusability and factorizing are maybe the most commons things you want and use when you are developing applications. In WPF it often means creating controls library (i don’t mean UserControl) that will be easy to use in multiple applications. In this post we'll see all the step to create a control library useable in differents projects. The... Read How to create your own control library (how-to + tips)

UserControl/Control : how to get a reference to an element of the template

JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:42:00 +0200

When you want to create your own custom control you have two choices : create an UserControl or inherit from one of the "Control's classes" (ContentControl, ItemsControls or Control itself). When doing so, you'll surely need to access to the visual parts of your template from the code to add to it a nice behavior. In this post, we'll discover how... Read UserControl/Control : how to get a reference to an element of the template