Using CSS Selectors for Styling in WPF
March 11th, 2009
When I first encountered WPF I was really impressed by its styling and templating features which are more powerful than anything else I had previously seen for desktop software development. The property-value pairing within styles instantly reminded me of CSS, however the WPF styles lack the most powerful feature of CSS – the selector. This [...]
Styling hard-to-reach elements in control templates with attached behaviours
February 10th, 2009
OK, the title of this blog post is not very snappy, but it is not an easy problem to describe in a few short words. Here’s the rub, the WPF DataGrid has a select-all button located in the top-left corner, just like Excel and many other grid controls / applications. However, with the default style, [...]