Templates, or Why I love WPF (and Silverlight Too!)
Colin Eberhardt, September 10th, 2010
This post compares the implementation of a simple ListBox layout with Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation. The use of Templates within WPF are a clear winner over the WinForms ‘owner draw’ route. Application user interfaces ar…
Linq to Visual Tree
Colin Eberhardt, March 4th, 2010
This blog post demonstrates a Linq API which can be used to query the WPF / Silverlight Visual Tree. You can find a few other Linq to Visual Tree techniques on other blogs, but what makes this one unique is that it retains, and allows queries that make…
Styling hard-to-reach elements in control templates with attached behaviours
Colin Eberhardt, 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 contr…