Animation, WPF, XAMLIn a previous blog, I spoke about the different sets of animation classes. Also when you are doing animations in WPF, there are some key properties. These are properties that apply to most...
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Animation, WPF, XAMLAs a slight sea change from the norm, which just shows the (extremely) impressive animation facilities available in WPF, why don't I explain a bit about the different animation classes. Out of the box, the nice people on the WPF team(s) have defined three sets of classes for doing the...
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Controls, WPF, XAMLHave you ever written any user controls or custom controls? The difference between them is that with a custom control you have full scope to render it (plus you have to do it), whereas a user control is a container to amalgamate other controls. With both of them though, you need to make sure...
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printing, Windows Computing, WPF, XAMLDo you have problems printing documents in WPF? My problem manifested itself when I tried to print a document from a FlowDocumentPageViewer (though the same is true from a FlowDocumentReader). The problem I was getting was that if I had multiple pages, they would all be scaled and fitted onto...
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printing, WPF, XAMLI have blogged before on how you print a WPF element using the PrintVisual method in the PrintDialog class, which is very flexible as it will print any element derived from Systems.Windows.Media.Visual. However, there is another weapon in the PrintDialog armoury, and that is the ability to print...
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printing, WPF, XAMLWhen you get to printing in WPF, you will find it so much easier than printing in previous Microsoft UI design (ie Winforms and MFC). See a previous post of mine to see how...
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printing, WPF, XAMLTo do a simple print in WPF, you can do the following: PrintDialog prtDlg = new PrintDialog(); if(prtDlg.ShowDialog() == true) { prtDlg.PrintVisual(element, "A simple drawing"); } This will throw up the XP or Vista print dialog, and then print the element specified, no problems at...
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printing, WPF, XAMLHow does printing work with WPF? Well, actually, if anyone out there has ever worked with printing in MFC, then it's so advanced as to make you dizzy. Even if you ever tried printing with Windows Forms, then printing in WPF is a bit of a revelation. So how does it work? Most of the...
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Microsoft Windows, VS 2008, WPF, XAMLI have recently rediscovered Document Outline in VS2008. It was something that I relegated, in my head at least, to the world of web However, I thought about a week ago - wouldn't it be very handy if it showed me my complex xaml in a tree. Lo and behold it did, andI could click on each node...
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Databinding, Validation, WPF, XAMLWhether to use IDataErrorInfo or ValidationRule - that is the question, as I posed in a previous post. So , you may be wondering what do I do in my WPF projects? Or you may not :-) Well,...
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