Essential WPF

WPF Localization Improvements by Tomer Shamam

Due to the popularity of my WPF Localization tool, I decided to fix several bugs related to Blend and Cider designer. Also I have upgraded it to support default values. Read more information and download details in the WPF Localization On-the-fly . Cheers

Prism for Silverlight 2 by Tomer Shamam

The p&p team are working on Composite Application Library for Silverlight 2. Future plans: - Support for building composite SL based RIA applications - Building applications that can target the two environments The great thing is the integration between Silverlight 2 and WPF. This will provide an option to build a smart client WPF version of an application and Silverlight 2 version of the same application by re-using modules and services across the two environments. This effort is in its early...

WPF Designer and Developer Collaboration by Tomer Shamam

From time to time I read posts and see questions regard the collaboration between WPF developer and designer. So I decided to say few words about my experience and point of view. There are two popular models for developer/designer collaboration with WPF The designer mockup the UI , handing it to the developer for adding logic. With this model it is advised that the designer will be part of the team, and there should be a tight integration between the developer and the designer. I don’t like this...

<howto>Create an Expander Group without Code</howto> by Tomer Shamam

Introduction : You have a collection of items and you want to display them as an expander group. Only one expander should be opened at a time. Problem : There is no expander group in WPF such as panel for RadioButton , also you don't want to write custom code, only XAML. Solution : Bind the collection of items to a ListBox . Create a DataTemplate to display each item as an expander. Bind the expander IsExpanded property to the ListBoxItem.IsSelected . Override the default ListBoxItem style so...