The WPF binding system allows you to bind to Indexers and properties and it also have a nice feature that allows you to bind to the explicit implementation of interfaces’ members, allowing you to resolve possible ambiguities if the properties have th

This entry was posted on Tuesday, 06 July, 2010 and is filed under .Net  Silverlight  WPF  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

For the proof of concept about a recording and encoding application I’m building, I had the need to show the preview of the actual data stream I can grab from a video source before the actual encoding job started. In the previous example you could vi

This entry was posted on Tuesday, 08 June, 2010 and is filed under WPF  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

Recently I’ve been asked to build a proof of concept of an application involving the use of a webcam and a microphone to record some streams and elaborate them after. At first I’ve tried with the new Silverlight support for webcam and microphone...i

This entry was posted on Thursday, 03 June, 2010 and is filed under WPF  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

Yesterday a friend of mine showed me some WPF code: he defined a transformation in XAML and was trying to alter it at runtime changing part of its transformation matrix (he was doing that substituting the scale transform matrix as a whole); he kept t

This entry was posted on Tuesday, 01 June, 2010 and is filed under WPF  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

In the previous post I’ve presented a very fast introduction of what MVVM is and I’ve defined the two basic interfaces for the view and the viewmodel; I’m not going to implement a ‘pure’ version of the pattern itself because I consider a pattern just

This entry was posted on Wednesday, 14 April, 2010 and is filed under WPF  IoC  Silverlight  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

Some days ago I blogged about how you can build your own Custom WCF Proxy generator to extend the classes it generates and add some validation logic (or whatever you like). Well playing with the MusicStore sample and making some changes to my ...

This entry was posted on Wednesday, 16 December, 2009 and is filed under Silverlight  Web Services  WCF  WPF  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

Working on the data validation section of different projects in Silverlight we usually have to face the standard problem: basically in Silverlight 3 the data validation framework relies on exceptions thrown in the setter of objects properties.I...

This entry was posted on Wednesday, 09 December, 2009 and is filed under WCF  Web Services  WPF  Silverlight  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

Days ago I needed a way to add an image and some other extensions to the standard button controls in WPF, I did a similar thing in the past in SIlverlight, but I had to rewrite the full control template. I wanted to avoid this situation, so I ...

This entry was posted on Friday, 28 August, 2009 and is filed under Tips  WPF  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

I’m working on a WPF application that have some validation performed through the standard ValidationRule system employed by WPF at the UI level. Recently I needed a way to validate (that is check the state and force the execution of any valida...

This entry was posted on Wednesday, 19 August, 2009 and is filed under WPF  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

Sooner or later everyone face the problem of having to deal with paginated data in WPF, paginating a collection is quite easy and you can refer to one of my previous posts too (http://www.primordialcode.com/index.php/2008/09/08/silverlight-a-ge...

This entry was posted on Thursday, 18 June, 2009 and is filed under WPF  .Net  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.