WPF Reusability Factor – UI with a “Style

Posted by Shams Mukhtar | Comments (287) | 1. January 2010

In my previous post I discussed about User Controls and Custom Controls with the help of examples and mentioned about the customization using Styles. In today's post I’ll focus my discussion on Styles in WPF in a fairly detailed manner.More...

WPF Reusability Factor – User Controls & Custom Controls

Posted by Shams Mukhtar | Comments (290) | 30. December 2009

There is always seen a perplexity/confusion exist in terms of User Controls and Custom Controls in regards to WPF. They both work alike in terms of reusability, like you can reuse them over and over, again and again. But there are also finite number of differences between them. And in today's post I’ll highlight them with the help of examples.More...

Rules || “Rulers” in WPF – Power of Recursion

Posted by Shams Mukhtar | Comments (504) | 25. July 2009

Recursion always been a power full tool of solving the most complicated problems in a very elegant manner, but at the price of space (as it is based on stack). The problems we solve with recursion are usually involve divide and conquer, trees traversal / graphs traversal etc.More...

WPFAQS - Routed Events in WPF

Posted by Shams Mukhtar | Comments (1146) | 18. April 2009

WPFAQS – is a series on WPF frequently asked questions (FAQS). Today we will discuss about “Routed Events” in WPF with some examples.More...

LegoDraw – Databinding of Composites in WPF

Posted by Shams Mukhtar | Comments (818) | 13. April 2009

My little one, she is 5 yrs old, and she likes to paint, draw and above all she likes to play the Lego blocks. I never think of a better idea than writing a simple application that mimics a little bit of Lego blocks – “LegoDraw”.More...

WPFAQS – “ObjectDataProvider” and its usage in WPF/XAML

Posted by Shams Mukhtar | Comments (943) | 12. April 2009

WPFAQS – is a series on WPF frequently asked questions (FAQS). Today we will talk about “ObjectDataProvider” and how does it can be used as a binding source for different controls.More...

WPFAQS – Templates in WPF/XAML

Posted by Shams Mukhtar | Comments (173) | 12. April 2009

WPFAQS – is a series on WPF frequently asked questions (FAQS). Today we will discuss about different templates, like “ControlTemplate”, “DataTemplate”, “HierarchicalDataTemplate” and “ItemsPanelTemplate”, in WPF and their usage.More...

WPFAQS – Logical and Visual Trees in WPF

Posted by Shams Mukhtar | Comments (1030) | 11. April 2009

WPFAQS – is a series on WPF frequently asked questions (FAQS). Today we will discuss about one of the most important and mostly overlooked areas of WPF, Logical and Visual trees.More...

WPFAQS – C# enum Data-bindings

Posted by Shams Mukhtar | Comments (490) | 25. March 2009

WPFAQS – as the name suggests, is about frequently asked questions (faqs) on WPF.  It is a new series and I’ll be posting answers to interesting questions regularly in this series.More...