Essential XAML - All Comments

re: WPF is DPI Dependent

CsharpDev — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:44:41 GMT

@Ian Griffiths :

Your answer makes more than 1 page on my screen.

What about keeping things simple when they could be simple ?

If I say I want an image or a button or anything 100 pixels by 100, I think WPF should allow me to have such a size, not more, not less, and without having to search among thousands of posts how to get this result.

re: WPF Data Validation using .NET Data Annotations – Part II

Christian — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:10:53 GMT

Great article indeed :)

Is there a way to not validate on initial binding or render? The problem I see is that the field is validate when the control is rendered but I want it to validate first when it looses focus the first time or when requested.

//Christian

re: WPF DataGrid Search and Highlight

Sean Lee — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 02:32:03 GMT

If you are using DataGrid which is part of .NET 4.0, look at the link I found:

stackoverflow.com/.../proper-datagrid-search-from-textbox-in-wpf-using-mvvm

re: Get screen resolution in Windows 8 Metro style application

Tomer Shamam — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 05:42:58 GMT

No. It supposed to work with all builds.

re: WPF Performance Sweets – ContentControl (Part 2)

Dave — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:05:34 GMT

I an across what looks like the equivalent issue in SL5 last week where my complex view was taking more than 20s elapsed to close! My solution is to navigate down the visual tree, building a list of Panels on the way, then traverse the list backwards, calling panel.Children.Clear() for each item. I was able to come up with this solution thanks to your findings in pt1 of this article.

re: WPF Localization - On-the-fly Language Selection

Pragya — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:00:29 GMT

While loading german language file, we are getting following exception :

'Schließen' is an unexpected token. Expecting white space. Line 455, position 108.

Following is the snippet from 'de-DE.xml'

The encoding of the xml is UTF-8 only.

Requesting you suggest something for this problem.

re: Blendability Part I – Design time ViewModel

Ben — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:50:59 GMT

Great saved loads of effort with some of my view, it doesn't work with ICollectionView though which is a shame.

re: Windows Phone 7 Custom Message Box

JAck — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:00:24 GMT

I am trying to your code implement my project but I write NotificationBOx.show() it giives me error. It suggest me only 3 (showagaintext,showagainproperty,showagainoption). What i do?

re: Get screen resolution in Windows 8 Metro style application

Emmanuel Huna — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 06:20:59 GMT

Since the C++ project needs Win32, the TestApp can only be compiled in x86. Does this mean that if we use this that the app cannot work on ARM, so it won't work on the Surface RT?

re: Open Links inside the WebBrowser control or outside using IE

Suresh — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:14:38 GMT

Wow man, you are awesome. I was fighting to resolve this for last one week. There you are. Thank you.

re: WPF Image Processing

nb — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 08:23:27 GMT

Thanks for the code. I tried it to an InteropBitmap (to get its internal lock, see social.msdn.microsoft.com/.../291b66fc-8c8f-4f9a-969c-86478c5858a6), but it fails during the call to the following line:

//Execute our static Lock() method

hr = (int)lockmethod.Invoke(null, args);

re: WPF Localization - On-the-fly Language Selection

Yves — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:00:43 GMT

Hi Tomer,

could you please explain how this all works? I'm trying to do something similar and create a MarkupExtension that can translate arbitrary, specified text keys into strings, but also regards a specified counting value to use specialised translations. Like "one day" but "4 days". This count parameter must be bindable because it can change.

I've tried to follow your code, starting in the TranslateExtension.BindDictionary method, but I can't follow it anywhere. It returns a BindingExpression instance and that's all, and it seems to work. Is it understandable what your code does and why it works? How did you find out about it all?

I haven't even tried to understand the MultiBinding part yet, though it looks interesting.

re: New Windows 8 Store Apps Development with C# 6 days Course

Alon. — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:23:27 GMT

This is a must have course for anyone that need to start developing Windows 8 applications using XAML. Tomer was the leader in XAML and WPF development since .NET 3.0 and in the last couple months Tomer has led several complex Windows 8 application using XAML, C# and even C++.

re: Displaying user Messages, Errors and Dialogs from a ViewModel using a Service – Part 1

Tomer Shamam — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 19:08:28 GMT

Never thought you did, but really, I'm not so familiar with Caliburn.Micro. In that case, if we thought about the same ideas it seems like we're in the right direction :)

re: Displaying user Messages, Errors and Dialogs from a ViewModel using a Service – Part 1

Rob — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:18:46 GMT

I agree. I wasn't criticizing your article. I just wanted to make sure you knew of the similarities to Caliburn.Micro. It's almost always good for people to understand the why and how.