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Some .Net applications are required to run as single instance process (at startup, each process “ensures” that he’s unique). This requirement may come from licensing issues, technical and/or other reasons. Quick search in Google will provide a variety of solutions , most of them are based on WindowsFormsApplicationBase object from VB.Net, usage of Mutex object and other techniques. I don’t like mixing VB with C#, and also Win-Forms solution isn’t “pure” enough for WPF applications. So I wrote my...
This solution can be used in WPF and in WinForms (with some improvements). Many times UI programmer needs to activate window, the activation can be done by using “Activate()” function in window. The problem is that this function will not show window if it is minimized. In that case you can use this workaround: using System ; using System.Windows ; namespace Test { public partial class MyWindow { ...
Recently, I deal with UML design in EA, also I design DB Entities for DBML (Linq2Sql). In regular way, programmer creates DB table and imports it into VS solution as entity class for DBML. But, sometimes we need to create DB table from existing class...
Many 3D editors can export 3D scenes as OBJ files, these files can be easily imported into WPF project and being used to build complex 3D scenes. See how easy to import 3D scene from 3D editors....
In resumption to my previous post “ How to import 3D model to WPF from 3D Max ” I want to present the “ XAML exporter for Blender ” ( Blender is an open-source cross-platform 3D designer). if(Blender.Name == Blend.Name) { Debug.WriteLine(“Wiiiiii !!!! :)”); } This post will guide you how to use this feature thru simple example. Software requirements for this guide: Blender 2.48a or later, Microsoft Expression Blend 2.0 (Final Release). SDK and Framework requirements: Microsoft...
I want to present very useful feature “ XAML exporter for 3D Studio Max ”. This feature contains number of MAX-Script files with code that allows exporting 3D scenes from 3D Studio Max to XAML files. “Max2Xaml” Project on Codeplex website: http://max2xaml.codeplex.com . I’ll try to present a simple guide for this feature with some useful example. Software requirements for this guide: 3D Studio Max 2007 or later (I use 3D Studio Max 2009 ), Microsoft Expression Blend 2.0 (Final Release). SDK and Framework...
Recently I've being asked by friend to show him a simple way to read/write data from/to MS Excel files. I found my old project with very simple method of working with excel files by using Microsoft. Jet . OLEDB .4.0 Provider (similar to MS Access ). This is one of many methods to work with excel files. Read data from Excel Sheet: ''' <summary> ''' Reads the data from excel file. ''' </summary> ''' <param name="strFilePath">...
Always wanted personal multi-touch cool display? - You don't need to buy any expensive hardware , just this... Great project from NUI-Group . So, what do we need to get this work? 1. Software: download ZIP file from here and extract in any folder on your hard disk (see minimum requirements before the installation). 2. Simple box (30cm x 30cm x 30cm). 3. Webcam . 4. Transparent surface (can be glass, fiberglass or disassemble your picture frame). 5. White paper (A4). 6. Build the "device"...
In previous post I wrote about running WPF-XBAP application on client machine in " Full-Trust Mode ". That worked fine and the post was helpful (I know this from post's talk-backs). I described how to generate security certificate and how to install it on client machine (thru IE options). Recently, I worked with XBAP deployment files and required to copy them to new IIS server, during the process I've forgotten to include certificate (ext: "cer") file. I tried to open...
Recently I required to create some simple control that shows 'wait process' (Vista Style). MS Blend allows you to create cool animated control in one minute or even less.
I want to show how to create very simple continuous animation and some tips in quick animation creation.
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