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

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

2010-10-03T23:27:00+02:00

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)

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

2010-06-16T15:07:00+02:00

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)

2010-06-13T12:03:00+02:00

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)

DependencyProperties or INotifyPropertyChanged ?

2010-03-01T12:31:00+01:00

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 ?

WPF - catch events even if they are already handled

2010-02-19T19:04:00+01:00

As you may actually know WPF introduced the routed events. These last are no more specific to a single control but they are routed inside the tree of your controls. If you want to stop an event, you can mark it as Handled. If so, the routing engine will stop to propage it. In fact this is just an illusion because the engine will only stop... Read WPF - catch events even if they are already handled