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How Do I: Use Encryption in Windows Forms

Pat Tormey show how to use Encryption tools* that wrap the Data Protection API (DPAPI). DPAPI uses either a Machine Level or User Lever internal key freeing the developer from having...

How Do I: Use NullableTypes in Windows Forms

Pat Tormey shows how to "Nullable Types" in a Windows Forms application. Nullable Types are values that can be Null, as in a Date type that has not been assigned. Nullable...

How Do I: Use Encryption in Windows Forms

Pat Tormey show how to use Encryption tools* that wrap the Data Protection API (DPAPI). DPAPI uses either a Machine Level or User Lever internal key freeing the developer from having...

How Do I: Create a Simple WPF DataGrid to Edit Tabular Data

Beth Massi shows how to create a simple data grid in WPF for editing tabular data using Visual Studio 2008. Author: Beth Massi

Lab: What’s Coming in WPF: Datagrid, Ribbon, and VSM

The next version of Windows Presentation Foundation will offer a whole new set of controls for you to utilize in building a state of the art desktop application. In this lab we will...

Lab: Build Your Own HLSL Shader Effect Lab

Create a simple, single input HLSL shader Effect and utilize it in WPF application. Then use Parameters and C# Dependency Properties to animate it.

RecipeBox: Expression Blend Hands On Lab

RecipeBox is an application written in C# which loads a set of recipes from an XML file and displays them using the Windows Presentation Foundation. WPF controls can be given customized...

Handling that Pesky Windows ControlBox

Paul Kimmel shows you how to distinguish between a ControlBox close and every other close. You will get to use a little bit of the old-school part of Windows, but sometimes, like now...

LINQ to SAP

Juergen Baeurle shows how to use LINQ to connect to a SAP/R3 system.

Using Converters to Aggregate Lists in a ListView

Timmy Kokke explains how to use converters to calculate the sum, largest, average, etc., for the items in a ListView.

ListView Made Simple and Powerful

Phillip Piper describes a simple, yet powerful ListView he created to support sorting, grouping, and much more.

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Latest Comments

re: Creating Navigation Applications in WPF

Nov 30 2008, 07:14 PM by megame

What would be the best way of adding animations for transitions between pages? Unlike the other parts of WPF this one looks very tricky to animate - handle navigating event, cancel navigation, animate, do animation?

re: How Do I: Create a Master-Detail Data Entry Form in WPF

Nov 27 2008, 10:14 AM by reyntjesr

Thanks for the video and the code. A lot became clear to me. I used your code to make my own m-v-vm program. The link where I try to explain what I did is below: reyntjes.blogspot.com/.../creating-masterdetail-viewmodel.html Not everything works perfect

re: How Do I: Create a Master-Detail Data Entry Form in WPF

Nov 24 2008, 06:18 PM by Denvas

Very informative. I was looking into learning WPF - but jeez, what happened to RAD? It takes all this to create a simple Master/Detail form? Maybe since I know nothing of WPF, I'm prejudging. But I would figure since it's a "moving forward"