Essential WPF

WPF vs WinForms for LOB by Tomer Shamam

To those who still wonder what technology is best for LOB applications, you should read this . My opinion is and always was like the vast majority opinion of this discussion. Now that Prism is in the air, my opinion is even got stronger. " Go with the flow or get fired "

WPF ItemsControl Filter Control by Tomer Shamam

If you are working with an ItemsControl (ListBox, ComboBox, ListView), and you want to filter several items using Outlook 2007 search style, this control is exactly for you. Usage: < local : Filter Header ="Jewish Names" Background ="{ DynamicResource DefaultHeaderBackgroundBrush }"> < ListBox ItemsSource ="{ Binding }" Background ="{ DynamicResource DefaultBackgroundBrush }" Foreground ="{ DynamicResource DefaultForegroundBrush }" />...

Composite Application Guidance for WPF (Prism) Tour - Part 1 by Tomer Shamam

If I would be asked, “What are the best two things happened to Smart Client and Desktop Applications developers in the last two years” I certainly would say “Microsoft's WPF and Prism infrastructures”. WPF is the aircraft’s Engines, and Prism is the HAL and this makes us proud to be an aircraft pilots. But it’s not enough to just sitting in the cockpit, wearing a pilot suit. We should know how to control both. With this post I want to start a series of posts regards Composite Application Guidance...

Sela's Elite Force Team by Tomer Shamam

In these last few days, Sela Technology Center has started a new private training project called YK. In this project span over 24 evenings, 25 of Sela's elite force composed of experts and developers will share knowledge of latest Microsoft Technologies including C# 3.0 and LINQ Silverlight WPF, WCF and WF .NET Performance and Internals Production Debugging ASP.NET MVC, DDC and AJAX Velocity CTP, Data Services, Entity Framework and Sync Framework SQL Server 2005/2008 VSTS and Moss 2007 As for...

<howto>Bind an implicit generated ListBoxItem to object</howto> by Tomer Shamam

I decided to post series of short howto's posts. Each post will be composed of short Introduction, Problem, Solution and a Code Snippet if relevant. Each post will be tagged as "howto". Be my guest to read this first one. Introduction : You have a list of data entities (vehicles) bind to a ListBox and a DataTemplate/s . Problem : Using binding inside a DataTemplate refers to elements properties inside the data template, but you want to bind the auto generated ListBoxItem properties...