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Material Design in XAML – How to Make Sense of the DialogHost

Kevin Bost — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 05:28:45 +0000

Material Design in XAML Material Design In XAML (MDIX) is a beautiful theme library that brings Google’s Material Design to your Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) applications. In this tutorial, we look at the XAML Dialog Host, one of its most powerful controls. XAML Dialog Host provides a simple way to display a dialog with information…

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5 Steps to Getting Started With Material Design In XAML

Kevin Bost — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 15:48:50 +0000

Add Aesthetically Appealing Material Design to Your Windows Presentation Framework Applications Material Design In XAML (MDIX) is a beautiful theme library that brings Google’s Material Design to your Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) applications. In this tutorial, we look at how easy it is to get started and add some beautiful material design to your application.…

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Ensure Continuation Using Async Await With the Windows UI

Mark Michaelis — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 17:30:46 +0000

The Async Await Pattern Ensures That Continuation Works Without Switching Back to the UI Thread to Update a Control One place where synchronization is especially important is in the context of UI and Web programming. With the Windows UI, for example, a message pump processes messages such as mouse click and move events. Furthermore, the…

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Master the Basics of MVVM for Building WPF Applications

Kevin Bost — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 20:36:27 +0000

Getting Started: Model-View-ViewModel Pattern using Windows Presentation Framework The Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) takes full advantage of the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern. Though it is possible to create WPF applications without using the MVVM pattern, a little investment in learning can make building WPF applications much simpler. If you are just getting started with WPF, I…

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Displaying a Custom Tooltip

Tom — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 21:28:41 +0000

Custom Mouse Tooltip on Large WPF Control In my work for an electric utility, we have a WPF-based map control used to show the location of power lines, along with other devices such as transformers and points of service. We wanted to show a tooltip when a user clicks on one of the power lines…

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