Everything you wanted to know about databinding in WPF, Silverlight and WP7 (Part One)
Colin Eberhardt, April 5th, 2012
OK, so the title is a little ambitious, but there is nothing wrong with setting yourself lofty aims! Because of the depth of this topic I have decided to split this tutorial up into a series of blog posts, each of which explore a different aspect of the binding framework. I don’t usually write tutorial [...]
A Simple Pattern for Creating Re-useable UserControls in WPF / Silverlight
Colin Eberhardt, February 6th, 2012
This blog post provides step-by-step instructions for creating a user control, which exposes bindable properties, in WPF and Silverlight. The post covers dependency properties, and how to manage DataContext inheritance. When building user interfaces you will often find yourself repeating the same UI patterns across your application. After all, users like to be presented with [...]
Using a Grid as the Panel for an ItemsControl
Colin Eberhardt, November 15th, 2010
In this blog post I look at how to use a Grid as the ItemsPanel for an ItemsControl, solving a few of the issues that crop up along the way. The Grid is probably the most useful of Silverlight and WPF’s panels (panels are elements which provide a mec…
Silverlight MultiBinding updated, adding support for ElementName and TwoWay binding
Colin Eberhardt, August 12th, 2010
This blog post describes an update to the Silverlight 4 MultiBinding technique I blogged about a couple of months ago to add support for ElementName binding and TwoWay binding. A few months ago I posted an update to my MultiBinding solution for Silverl…
Silverlight MultiBinding solution for Silverlight 4
Colin Eberhardt, May 10th, 2010
In this post I describe an update to the Silverlight MultiBinding solution I presented last year. This update includes support for Silverlight 4, attached properties and multiple bindings on a single object. UPDATE: I have updated this code to include …
Binding a Silverlight 3 DataGrid to dynamic data via IDictionary (Updated)
Colin Eberhardt, March 26th, 2010
In this post I demonstrate a method for binding a Silverlight 3 DataGrid to dynamic data, i.e. data which does not have properties that are known at design time. This technique results in a bound grid which is sortable and editable. This blog post is a…
The mini-ViewModel pattern
Colin Eberhardt, August 7th, 2009
The construction of a ViewModel is often seen as the standard technique for solving binding problems within WPF and Silverlight. However, the addition of a ViewModel adds complexity to your code. This post describes an alternative method where a mini-V…
Silverlight MultiBindings, How to attached multiple bindings to a single property.
Colin Eberhardt, June 25th, 2009
This blog posts describes a technique for associating multiple bindings with a single dependency property within Silverlight applications. WPF already has this functionality in the form of MultiBindings, the code in this post emulates this function. UP…
Exposing Bindings as Properties of a Control
Colin Eberhardt, June 19th, 2009
I must admit that the title of this post is not entirely clear, however I couldn’t find a way to sum up the content in one short sentence, so we’ll dive straight into an example. Let’s say for example you have developed a funky little…
Dependency Property Performance and Lissajous Figures
Colin Eberhardt, June 2nd, 2009
A few night ago I was working on a Siverlight control which renders some quite complex Paths, the geometry of which is determined from a number of dependency properties. In order to gain UI coolness points I wanted to animate the dependency properties …