Download code   Introduction This is a very simple article that really just demonstrates the various capabilities of the WPF ImageBrush. The basic idea is that the attached demo emulated one of those 9 square puzzles you used to get in XMAS stockings. Where 1 square was blank, and the ... [More]

Download code   CD Player application built with WPF and DirectSound using C# and Visual Studio 2008, and is targeted at the intermediate-level programmer who is familiar with C#, WPF, and .NET interoperability with native Windows APIs, and the Visual Studio development environment. This... [More]

Download code   Some classes like Button an MenuItem provided a property named Command which makes coding simplier, but most other classes do not provide same kind of functionality for each events. I want to implement a Command for DoubleClick, I did tried Googled, there are some solution... [More]

Download code   Introduction WPF Tree view control does not give the developers an ability to multi-select the nodes of the tree. This article shows a very simple example that simulates multi-select capability for a WPF TreeView control. I say "simulate" because it discards the WPF select ... [More]

Download code   Using the code To use the code, simply unzip the file, start the project, compile and run the application. There are two interesting things I had to figure out in order to make the application work in a browser: making sure that that the picture of the cursor is visible a... [More]

Download code   Using the code To use the code just download it, open the project using VS 2008, compile and run. Use drag and drop to re-order the items in the list. Brief Code Description There are basically 3 files containing the code: Shape.cs, Window1.xaml and Window.xaml.cs File... [More]

The basic story is that I had some code that went off to a timestamp server using HttpWebRequest and worked fine in .NET 2.0. Then I had to use it with .NET 3.0 and got the error: (407) Proxy Authentication Required. Now, I already had all the code to add a proxy to the request and the very same... [More]

Download code   Sample Project The sample scenario for this article is a WPF windows application with three radio buttons and a textbox. When the Red radio button is selected, we want the textbox to be disabled. When any other radio button is selected, we want the textbox to be enabled. Th... [More]

Creating a TextBox The <TextBox /> tag creates a text box.  The following syntaxes create text boxes:  <TextBox /> <TextBox></TextBox> <TextBox>Enter something here</TextBox> This code snippet creates a tex... [More]

Download code   Most business applications need to display hierarchal data, and of course a TreeView has been the way to go for as long as I can remember. However, many situations arise where loading data in a tree can take quite some time. And this is what this article tries to address. Al... [More]

Download code   Introduction With the release of .NET Framework 3.0, Microsoft introduced a new file format called XPS (Xml Paper Specifications) with .Xps extension. This file format was thought as a standard for documents portability; in fact, XPS documents can be read on every system wi... [More]

Download source   See introduction for inportant information BEFORE downloading any files. Introduction IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This code and example this article describes is purely ALPHA stage code, and as such is significantly below commercial or otherwise quality standards. It is ... [More]

Download source   Background Having just read Sacha Barber's article WPF: A Beginners Guide - Part 5 of N I wondered how to get Binding to work where the source of data was an actual database rather than an XML file. Sacha mentioned that his current favourite method involves LINQ-SQL and ... [More]

Download source To run the sample, open it in Visual Studio 2008. Then simply compile and run the application. Several points on using the sample: You can select multiple entries in the list by using Ctrl or Shift key together with the mouse. In order to initiate the drag operation, you hav... [More]

Download demo Introduction The WPFGraph library allows production of scatter graphs (and in later versions other graph types) which can be customised by the user at runtime. The library allows dynamic loading of custom point and line renderers and automatically generates a customisation d... [More]