It took me some time to find out that you cannot have periods “.” in the column name of dynamically created DataTables. I would run the query, created the columns and add the rows to the table, but nothing would show in the DataGrid when I bound it. I use the HQL interface from NHibernate […]
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How to sort by month in SQL Server
This is a older blog which I am migrating, you can see how the older website looked like here. You can see on the Blog.Archive() navigation bar on the right of this page that I present the Year, Month and number of blogs which I have written each month. Everything worked fine from October 2010 […]
Read More →Add a Masked Textbox control to a WPF program
I found some very creative and technically challenging examples for adding a masked textbox control to a WPF program. Most of them required the creation of a new class inherited from the base System.Windows.Controls.TextBox class. This is a valid option, however, I have implemented a different approach. I discovered the System.Windows.Forms.Integration.WindowsFormsHost class which is specifically […]
Read More →Add images dynamically to WPF DataGrid using IValueConverter in C#
I created a WPF project which included a DataGrid which present a Status. It looked liked this. I didn’t really like the representation of the True, False, Null and decided to convert the value to either a Green, Yellow or Red image instead. To do this, I first added a class called BoolToImageConverter which implements […]
Read More →Access Localization Resources in WPF from the code-behind using C#
In a previous blog I discussed how to localize a WPF application. In that example we bound the localized resources in the XAML code. However, recently I needed to set the title of a MessageBox and I needed it to be localized. I added the below to my resource files. The name is the same […]
Read More →Setting the scrollbar for a treeview in WPF
I wanted a treeviews max height to be about 15% smaller than the window hosting it. This was because I wasn’t able to get (could not get) the vertical scrollbar for the treeview to show up without setting the MaxHeight property. Statically setting the MaxHeight property did make the vertical scrollbar show up, however when […]
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