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WPF TextBox with Watermark
WPF has simply the most powerful templating and visual engine that is available at the moment for designing your UI.  A requirement came up in a project that required a watermarked textbox for displaying some contextual help. With WPF this becomes Read More...
Event Reminder
Just a reminder to all you WPF and Silverlight developers out there that I'm presenting at Nxtgen Cambridge on the MVVM pattern. We will look at how to design a WPF application and spend quite a lot of time deep in code. I have one more space in the car Read More...
November Speaking Engagement - WPF and Practical Frameworks
Some advance notice on a talk I'm giving for Nxtgen in Cambridge in November.  Abstract: "From the basics to the not so basic, WPF is an amazing framework. In this talk we'll look at creating simple data bound applications moving towards a practical Read More...
WPF Memory Leak in Command Binding
In a medium sized project I'm working on at the moment, we've had a rather large memory leak issue. We've implemented our tiers in a pattern called MVVM . I wasn't sure on how well this would work but to be honest, its been an amazing pattern to follow Read More...
3D Programming for Windows - Charles Petzold
Lucky me!  In the post during the week I received a copy of the new book by Charles Petzold - " 3D Programming for Windows ".  I read his first book on WPF - " Applications = Code + Markup " and loved that and am really happy Read More...
Using a Single Storyboard on Multiple Elements
On a secret little project I've been working on for the last two weeks I came across something interesting in Silverlight and WPF. When you're developing WPF applications, code and XAML re-use is paramount. Using templates is an absolute requirement to Read More...