XAML

WPF – adding hyperlinks to pages

When you are using pages as your building blocks for WPF development, hyperlinks are a useful way to move onto different pages. That has been proved of course on the internet for many years :-) As to why you might use pages, see a previous

Xbap – how to show them

With a standard WPF application, you don't really have many options as to how you display the application - it has a top level window and that's it. With a WPF application, you have four options on how to display your top level page in a container:

1. Using a NavigationWindow - which...

WPF – hosting pages directly in the browser

For a description of what a page is see blog post. Why would you want to place a page within the browser? It means you can run the WPF application over the internet or an intranet without any installation...

WPF pages hosting in pages

What do I mean by that? Simply put, you can embed a page within another page. Why would you want to do that? It allows re-use for a start, as well as splitting functionality down into logical chunks. In the following example, I have done just that: First the top level...

Xbap – hosting pages using frames

For an explanation of what an Xbap is, look at a previous blog of mine. With Xbap pages, you have a useful resource. You can host pages within other windows or with a special xaml construct - a...

Xbap – hosting in NavigationWindow

To hosting your page in a NavigationWindow, what do you need to do? Well, not a lot actually. You write your page, set your app.xaml's startup uri to point to your page and run it! It will appear in a browser if you created a browser application, or inside a NavigationWindow if it is a WPF...

Xbap – pages instead of windows

For an explanation of what an Xbap is, look at a previous blog of mine. I have spent the last few weeks writing a Xbap (or page navigation) application in WPF. The first thing you have to get used...

Xbap WPF – using WCF and Entity Framework

Don't That's my advice. I have been trying to get the combination of partial trust Xbap WPF appliction talking to a basicHttpBinding WCF service. That's not too hard. What is hard is then getting that to talk to Entity Framework in partial trust (well it actually was medium trust IIS host...

Composite WPF – Caliburn framework

In a previous blog, I talked about what a Composite application and framework is. The Caliburn framework is a Composite framework for WPF, but built from the ground up to work for WPF. It has been created as an open...

Composite WPF – SCSF

In a previous blog, I talked about what a Composite application and framework is. SCSF is the Smart Client Software Factory and has been around, in a couple of guises, for a while. It started out life as the Client...