Essential WPF

Best Twitter Application for very fast Tweeting!

Last weekend I’ve tried to find a very simple twitter application for sending messages very quickly over the twitter network,  so I’ve googled something like: “Best Twitter Application for very fast Tweeting” And not surprisingly I’ve got tons of twitter applications, but neither was simple to use nor suited to my needs. So I’ve decided to create another twitter application, were “very fast tweeting” is its main goal. So far I’ve created a new open source project in CodePlex , not yet published...

Prism on Microsoft Developer Academy III

Microsoft Developer Academy III is coming soon and I’m going to lecture about Composite Application Guidance for WPF (Prism). So what is in my lecture for you: Well, the original abstract is about Composite UI Applications Challenges and Building WPF Enterprise Applications with Prism. But... Prism is really a lightweight presentation infrastructure, It contains guidelines and class library for building WPF Composite UI Applications. But what about other kind of UI applications? Can we leverage Prism...

WPF Panel & Data Binding

WPF Data Binding on behalf of ItemsControl provides an elegant solution for collection of data types. All you have to do is simple as: < ListBox ItemsSource ="{ Binding Path =Items}" ... /> But what if you want to bind the same collection to a Panel, let say UniformGrid , WrapPanel or other custom panel? Trying to bind the Panel.Children collection using the same technique above, results in a big ERROR! And the reason is: Panel.Children is not designed to be bind, hence Children is...

Materials from my WPF lectures in (9,10)-Mar-2008

Thank you to those who participated in my WPF lecture in 9-Mar-2008 and 10-Mar-2008. You can download the lecture materials from here . Other demos can be found in the links bellow: WPF Feature Montage Family Show You are invited to read my blog, and/or leave comments about the lecture in this post. Regards, Tomer

Data Binding for Pure CLR Objects

WPF has a great support for handling data: Data Binding. Unfortunately, one of the elements you bind to (the target) must have a DependencyProperty (known as the target-property). What if you don't have a dependency property to bind to, or you just want to bind two CLR types? For example let say that you wrote an application for simulating a car. You may have a Car and a Speedometer classes. Let say that a car handles its own speed, hence the car has its own speed state exposed by a Speed property...

Come to see me at Tech-Ed Israel 2008

Tech-Ed Israel 2008 is coming soon, and I'm preparing a lecture about WPF Data Binding and Data Templates. In my lecture, I will talk about WPF Data Binding and Data Visualization I will show how to design data entities to support data binding, and how to visualize them with data templates. As part of my lecture, I will show how to build an application based on these concepts. The topics I'll cover are: Designing Data Entities around Data Binding Binding Source to Target Notifying Source...