The way a problem is approached can have some serious consequences. Take for example the task I had to add some data to a DataGrid in WPF and allow a user to select the rows. When the rows were selected I would capture the details and put them into a form where they could be […]
Read More →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 →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 →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 […]
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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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