Yet another blog about WPF, Surface, SL, MVVM, NUI.... - Tag - example http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php? In this blog we talk about WPF, Natural User Interface(NUI), Microsoft Surface, WIndows 7, Multitouch, Touchless, JavaFX, MVVM, patterns, tips, tricks .... and a lot of other things ! en Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:40:43 +0100 Jonathan ANTOINE, All rights reserved http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Dotclear VS Tip : how to locate the active document in the solution explorer using a shortcut http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/11/04/VS-Tip-%3A-how-to-locate-the-active-document-in-the-solution-explorer-using-a-shortcut urn:md5:8528a0336d20cda80f60db7cdd7f5ce3 Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:39:00 +0100 JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com .NET examplehow tohow-totipstrickVisual Studio <p>When you have multiple projects in your solution, you often want to locate the active document in the solution explorer. There is a great option in Visual Studio which can do it for you all the time : “View.TrackActivityInSolutionExplorer”.   But if you do not want (as me) to turn it on all the time, there is no specific option or shortcut. So I... <a href="http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/11/04/VS-Tip-%3A-how-to-locate-the-active-document-in-the-solution-explorer-using-a-shortcut"><em>Read</em> VS Tip : how to locate the active document in the solution explorer using a shortcut</a></p> http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/11/04/VS-Tip-%3A-how-to-locate-the-active-document-in-the-solution-explorer-using-a-shortcut#comment-form http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/11/04/VS-Tip-%3A-how-to-locate-the-active-document-in-the-solution-explorer-using-a-shortcut#comment-form http://feeds.feedburner.com/JonathanAntoine/comments/65 Introducing the amazing WPF controls library on Codeplex ! http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/10/25/Introducing-the-amazing-WPF-controls-library-on-Codeplex-%21 urn:md5:38e0ac0a863f442767c1a2a1d9bf3431 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:19:00 +0200 JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com WPF controlsdemoexampleWindows Presentation FoundationWPF <p>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... <a href="http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/10/25/Introducing-the-amazing-WPF-controls-library-on-Codeplex-%21"><em>Read</em> Introducing the amazing WPF controls library on Codeplex !</a></p> http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/10/25/Introducing-the-amazing-WPF-controls-library-on-Codeplex-%21#comment-form http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/10/25/Introducing-the-amazing-WPF-controls-library-on-Codeplex-%21#comment-form http://feeds.feedburner.com/JonathanAntoine/comments/63 How to create your own control library (how-to + tips) http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/10/04/How-to-create-your-own-control-library urn:md5:9ed22011e4c8dd030431d70034af0342 Sun, 03 Oct 2010 23:27:00 +0200 JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com WPF BindingContentControlcontrolscustomdataBindingDataTemplateDependencyPropertyeventsexamplehow tohow-toLibrarysampleTemplatetipstrickWindows Presentation FoundationWPFXAML <p>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... <a href="http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/10/04/How-to-create-your-own-control-library"><em>Read</em> How to create your own control library (how-to + tips)</a></p> http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/10/04/How-to-create-your-own-control-library#comment-form http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/10/04/How-to-create-your-own-control-library#comment-form http://feeds.feedburner.com/JonathanAntoine/comments/59 WPF tip : How can I use static/dynamic resources in my tests http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/09/24/WPF-tip-How-can-I-use-static/dynamic-resources-in-my-tests urn:md5:4a3dab56d52a0b0385223e6db58a46ec Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:33:00 +0200 JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com WPF .NET4.0examplehow tohow-totesttestingtestsunitWPF <p>You are surely, as I am, creating a lot of units tests in your WPF applications. Some of the tests may use statics or dynamics resources declared in your application and when you launch the tests, all you get is an XamlParseException exception thrown. System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException: 'Provide value on... <a href="http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/09/24/WPF-tip-How-can-I-use-static/dynamic-resources-in-my-tests"><em>Read</em> WPF tip : How can I use static/dynamic resources in my tests</a></p> http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/09/24/WPF-tip-How-can-I-use-static/dynamic-resources-in-my-tests#comment-form http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/09/24/WPF-tip-How-can-I-use-static/dynamic-resources-in-my-tests#comment-form http://feeds.feedburner.com/JonathanAntoine/comments/58 How to create an animated expander http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/09/21/Create-an-animated-expander urn:md5:2ae908d20a12760560980c024eaabac7 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:02:00 +0200 JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com WPF animationContentControlexamplesamplescalescalingTemplatetipstrickWindows Presentation FoundationWPFXAML <p>The expander control can be used in a lot of situations but the one proposed by default is quite "rigid". In this post we will discover how to animate it quite simply just via XAML ! The WPF engine lets us redefine the template of the controls and we'll just do that. The goal aimed What we aim is to get the same functionnality as the... <a href="http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/09/21/Create-an-animated-expander"><em>Read</em> How to create an animated expander</a></p> http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/09/21/Create-an-animated-expander#comment-form http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/09/21/Create-an-animated-expander#comment-form http://feeds.feedburner.com/JonathanAntoine/comments/56 Execute a command on a specified control when clicking on a button http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/06/16/Execute-a-command-on-a-specified-control-when-clicking-on-a-button urn:md5:d120a96b6da17f34e9dcdd2044d853d9 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:07:00 +0200 JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com WPF AttachedPropertyBindingdataBindingDependencyObjectDependencyPropertyeventsexamplehow tohow-toM-V-VMMouseEventMVVMOnPropertyChangedpatternpatternssampletipstrickWindows Presentation FoundationWPFXAML <p>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... <a href="http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/06/16/Execute-a-command-on-a-specified-control-when-clicking-on-a-button"><em>Read</em> Execute a command on a specified control when clicking on a button</a></p> http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/06/16/Execute-a-command-on-a-specified-control-when-clicking-on-a-button#comment-form http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/06/16/Execute-a-command-on-a-specified-control-when-clicking-on-a-button#comment-form http://feeds.feedburner.com/JonathanAntoine/comments/52 [Performance tips] Use the system shadows instead of your own http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/04/27/Performance-tips-Use-the-system-shadows-instead-of-your-own urn:md5:6ce9a6fcf6a9fa653286c4c02a507fc7 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:52:00 +0200 JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com WPF aerodemoexamplehow tohow-toperformanceshadowshadowstipstrickWindows Presentation FoundationWPFXAML <p>Today a fast and easy tip about shadows and performance. In a project I have recently made, we've told the designer not to use BitmapEffects because they are performance killer. He so decided to create it's own shadows by duplicating each shape and make them looks like shadows(designer magic, voodoo things, etc...). I was then surprised to see... <a href="http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/04/27/Performance-tips-Use-the-system-shadows-instead-of-your-own"><em>Read</em> [Performance tips] Use the system shadows instead of your own</a></p> http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/04/27/Performance-tips-Use-the-system-shadows-instead-of-your-own#comment-form http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/04/27/Performance-tips-Use-the-system-shadows-instead-of-your-own#comment-form http://feeds.feedburner.com/JonathanAntoine/comments/50 Freeze brushes directly in the XAML to improve your application's performances http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/04/12/Freeze-brushes-directly-in-the-XAML-to-improve-your-application-s-performances urn:md5:9e20a96580288c5ab39762cf98c5d356 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:53:00 +0200 JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com WPF examplefreezehow tohow-toperformancetipstrickWindows Presentation FoundationWPFXAML <p>When you read the MSDN guidelines to improve WPF's performances you can find that it's a good idea to freeze Freezable objects. It's a quite easy thing to do via the code but it's quite harder to do it directly in the XAML. In this post we will see how to do so. What are freezable objects One upon a time, the MSDN said : A Freezable is a... <a href="http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/04/12/Freeze-brushes-directly-in-the-XAML-to-improve-your-application-s-performances"><em>Read</em> Freeze brushes directly in the XAML to improve your application's performances</a></p> http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/04/12/Freeze-brushes-directly-in-the-XAML-to-improve-your-application-s-performances#comment-form http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/04/12/Freeze-brushes-directly-in-the-XAML-to-improve-your-application-s-performances#comment-form http://feeds.feedburner.com/JonathanAntoine/comments/49 Simple properties Mapper by reflection : stop copying manually each property of your objects ! http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/04/08/Simple-properties-Mapper-by-reflection urn:md5:c953a7caee3d6372fc5d0b3b3150e49b Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:14:00 +0200 JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com .NET demoexamplehow tohow-totipstrickWCFWindows Presentation FoundationWPF <p>There is time when you have to copy each property of an object to one another. This is called mapping and it's very fastidious to do it by hand. In this post we'll see how to create a method extension which do it for you in one line of code ! When can it be useful Here is a non exhaustive list of usage you can find to this snippet: You want... <a href="http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/04/08/Simple-properties-Mapper-by-reflection"><em>Read</em> Simple properties Mapper by reflection : stop copying manually each property of your objects !</a></p> http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/04/08/Simple-properties-Mapper-by-reflection#comment-form http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/04/08/Simple-properties-Mapper-by-reflection#comment-form http://feeds.feedburner.com/JonathanAntoine/comments/48 Binding on a Property which is not a DependencyProperty http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/03/31/Binding-on-a-Property-which-is-not-a-DependencyProperty urn:md5:d2eadacd7db37af377f1b69c8b528bb1 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:03:00 +0200 JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com WPF AttachedPropertycustomdataBindingdemoexamplehow tohow-toOnPropertyChangedpatternpatternstipstrickWPF <p>A lot of controls expose properties which are not DependencyProperties and then you can’t put a binding on it. On some other cases, you only have a getter as accessor and you can’t put a binding on it too… This is for example the case for the ribbon’s group of the office ribbon or the converter’s parameter. If you ever tried to do so, you... <a href="http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/03/31/Binding-on-a-Property-which-is-not-a-DependencyProperty"><em>Read</em> Binding on a Property which is not a DependencyProperty</a></p> http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/03/31/Binding-on-a-Property-which-is-not-a-DependencyProperty#comment-form http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/03/31/Binding-on-a-Property-which-is-not-a-DependencyProperty#comment-form http://feeds.feedburner.com/JonathanAntoine/comments/47 MVVM - Creating ViewModel : create dynamic proxies with Castle (solution 3 of n) http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/03/11/MVVM-Creating-ViewModel-%3A-create-dynamic-proxies-with-Castle urn:md5:d3a023b93c4a2ef515d002c54361428f Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:09:00 +0100 JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com WPF CastleDesign patternDynamic proxiesDynamic proxyexampleM-V-VMMVVMpatternpatternsWPF <p>Here is the next episode of our serie MVVM - Creating ViewModel. A list of all the article about creating a ViewModel is here.. Today we are going to see how to create dynamic proxies for our business objects. What are Dynamic proxies ? Readers in a hurry can directly jump to the third part "An implementation". Proxies are a Desing Pattern... <a href="http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/03/11/MVVM-Creating-ViewModel-%3A-create-dynamic-proxies-with-Castle"><em>Read</em> MVVM - Creating ViewModel : create dynamic proxies with Castle (solution 3 of n)</a></p> http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/03/11/MVVM-Creating-ViewModel-%3A-create-dynamic-proxies-with-Castle#comment-form http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/03/11/MVVM-Creating-ViewModel-%3A-create-dynamic-proxies-with-Castle#comment-form http://feeds.feedburner.com/JonathanAntoine/comments/43 MVVM - Creating ViewModel tutorial http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/03/11/MVVM-Creating-ViewModel-tutorial urn:md5:175290551e10776eb81123ddd0100dfa Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:58:00 +0100 JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com WPF Design patternexamplehow tohow-toM-V-VMMVVMpatternpatternsWPF <p>MVVM - Creating ViewModel is a serie of blogposts that talk in details about various ways to create a ViewModel to use it with the MVVM pattern. You often do not create the business object used by the application which are created by another team and that these objects are not ready for binding. So you must find a solution to create an object... <a href="http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/03/11/MVVM-Creating-ViewModel-tutorial"><em>Read</em> MVVM - Creating ViewModel tutorial</a></p> http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/03/11/MVVM-Creating-ViewModel-tutorial#comment-form http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/03/11/MVVM-Creating-ViewModel-tutorial#comment-form http://feeds.feedburner.com/JonathanAntoine/comments/44 DependencyProperties or INotifyPropertyChanged ? http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/02/24/DependencyProperties-or-INotifyPropertyChanged urn:md5:441834c0aab7c5bc41e56298bff51219 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:31:00 +0100 JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com WPF AttachedPropertydataBindingDependencyObjectDependencyPropertyeventsexamplehow toOnPropertyChangedtipstrickWPFXAML <p>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... <a href="http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/02/24/DependencyProperties-or-INotifyPropertyChanged"><em>Read</em> DependencyProperties or INotifyPropertyChanged ?</a></p> http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/02/24/DependencyProperties-or-INotifyPropertyChanged#comment-form http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2010/02/24/DependencyProperties-or-INotifyPropertyChanged#comment-form http://feeds.feedburner.com/JonathanAntoine/comments/34 Ambient, diffuse, emissive and specular colors : some examples http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2009/07/24/AmbientDiffuseEmissive-and-specular-colorSome-examples urn:md5:1927702ab98d36dad5a9e029d62ba9e2 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:00:00 +0200 JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com 3D (Mogre) 3DambientdefinitiondefinitionsdiffuseemissiveexamplematerialMogrespecular <p>Introduction When you defines a material in Ogre or in 3D engines in general, you can play with at least four differents parameters : Ambient color, diffuse color, emissive color and specular color. In this post I will give you the definitions and show you some example for those who - like me - requires some visual example to understand... <a href="http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2009/07/24/AmbientDiffuseEmissive-and-specular-colorSome-examples"><em>Read</em> Ambient, diffuse, emissive and specular colors : some examples</a></p> http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2009/07/24/AmbientDiffuseEmissive-and-specular-colorSome-examples#comment-form http://blog.lexique-du-net.com/index.php?post/2009/07/24/AmbientDiffuseEmissive-and-specular-colorSome-examples#comment-form http://feeds.feedburner.com/JonathanAntoine/comments/26