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Published Tue, Apr 04 2009 10:15 PM by Admin

Creating Video Demos With Camtasia Studio

I've been meaning to blog about the tools I use regularly and find useful and I've managed to get a couple written this month. I'm always a bit concerned that blogs like this might end up looking like some kind of infomercial. But I eventually...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2009 9:28 AM by Admin

The Best WPF Developer Books

I now have several WPF books. I've written reviews on some of them and often mentioned them in answers to Forum questions from members who want to start out in WPF. When I wrote those articles and answers, my opinion was mostly based on my experience...

Published Sun, Jan 01 2009 12:10 PM by Admin

WPF Commands and PerformClick

Some weeks ago I wrote a blog item about how to get the functionality of PerformClick in WPF. I remember thinking at the time that it was a fairly clunky workaround and wondered why PerformClick hadn't been included in WPF. Of course there may be...

Published Sun, Jan 01 2009 10:04 AM by Admin

WPF Text Tricks - MultiLine Text and Multiple Spaces

When it comes to text handling in WPF, you have a massive range of tools available, some of which can offer you a level of granularity that was previously unachievable. I plan to write about some of these text tools, such as Spans, Runs and Glyphs in...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2008 4:51 PM by Admin

Formatting XAML Code Samples for a Blog

For several years, whenever I've needed to include code snippets in my blogs and articles, I've used a neat little application that VBCity member HotDog wrote. This has stood me in good stead until the day that XAML arrived on the scene. Unfortunately...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2008 9:18 AM by Admin

WPF Gotchas: What's the WPF Equivalent of the Text Property?

One of the things that often pulls me up in mid flow when I'm putting WPF UIs together in a Window is that some of the core properties seem to have disappeared. Now, some of these are so fundamental that I know they have to be there, but obviously...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2008 9:13 AM by Admin

My Blogs Are Moving to New Site

VBCity will be looking very different soon, as we change to the new Community Server based model. In advance of that change, our blogs are moving to a new area. From now on, you can view my latest blogs both here and at the new site here . Once the new...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2008 4:13 PM by Admin

How To Get the Icon from an Application

This question comes up every so often in the forums and it's one of those things that you'd think should be easy, but actually isn't. Well, it isn't until you know how - like most things in developer land. The question is usually something...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2008 6:00 PM by Admin

WPF Missing In Action - The Button PerformClick Method

PerformClick is one of the many casualties of a move from Windows Forms to WPF. Of course, it's probably not something you would need to use often, but just in case you do then there is a way. It's not a very intuitive way and - had it not been...

Published Sat, Nov 11 2008 3:59 PM by Admin

WPF MIA - Anchor, Alignments,Canvas and Margins

Continuing my look at features that seem to be Missing in Action (MIA) from Windows Forms, vbCity colleague Matt pointed out to me that the Anchor property seems to have disappeared. I'm really pleased that this came up, because it gives me an opportunity...

Published Sat, Oct 10 2008 2:07 PM by Admin

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