The PropertyGrid control in the Extended WPF Toolkit was released in version 1.4.0 as beta. Since then I have had another release of version 1.5.0 in which the PropertyGrid was still in beta. Well it is beta no more! I have given the PropertyGrid a lot of love an affection over the past few weeks […]
Read MoreAs you may know, I am the author of a WPF control suite call the Extended WPF Toolkit. I also spend tons of time on various forums helping people solve problems with their WPF applications. Lately there have been a number of questions regarding the BusyIndicator control. The majority of questions deal with using it […]
Read MoreIt?s that time again. Time for another release of the Extended WPF Toolkit. I know it?s only been three short months since the last release, but this release is packed with 11 new controls as well as many bug fixes and updated controls. I have been working hard to provide the WPF community with a […]
Read MoreThis is an idea that I?ve been throwing around for a while now, and I have implemented in a couple of project. The basic idea is to extend the basic master page, by adding more ContentPlaceholders, to give your developers a heads up as to where things should go. Lets start things out by outlining […]
Read MoreA typical way for invoking a non-public method of a class is by using reflection. This can come in handy in a number of cases. One typical scenario that comes to mind is when the designers of the .NET Framework or another 3rd party framework decided to bury a class or a method as internal […]
Read MoreRecently, I needed to change a basic enumeration into a full-fledged state pattern. After getting all my domain classes updated, I began reviewing the persistence layer. And I hit a wall. I wasn’t sure how I wanted to update my Fluent NHibernate convention to persist the current state.
Read MoreRecently, I had the need to navigate a list by using methods such as MoveFirts, MovePrevious, MoveNext, and MoveLast while at the same time keeping track of its current location to notify the user where they are at in the list. Enter the ICollectionView. ?You can think of a collection view as a layer on […]
Read MoreOK, on a previous post I had a little bit of code with a ?var? statement in it. Actually, there were a few other items in there, couple of lambdas, lots of nested ?if?s, etc. There was a lot of good hand wrangling on how performant the Lambda ?Where? function is. According to the comments, […]
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