The objective of this article is to create custom xap loader screen without any background image and code behind (pure XAML).In the final application version, download progress of root xap file will be shown in the sample screen above.. Will write more on this article in next few days … Download post
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Silverlight TextBox AutoComit Behaviour
Standard Silverlight TextBox control is very useful but has one strange behavior: if you use TwoWay data binding and bind some property to controls Text property, when users type text into the control, this change is not propagated to the bound property until the control loses its focus. This can be very annoying if you [...]
Nano ViewModel Support
Nano view model is very small library to build MVVM enabled Silverlight/WPF/WP7 based application.MVVM becomes more and more popular in fast few years and there are many implementations like MVVM Light toolkit, Prism(Last Version), nRoute, or Caliburn however these libraries have too many features and keep on growing which could have adverse effect on you project [...]
Auction Sniper
Auction Sniper is an eBay/Madbid sniper that automates the process of placing your eBay/madbid bid in the closing seconds of any eBay/Madbid bidding auction, dramatically increasing your chance of winning with huge saving to your bids.The sample application is WPF based windows application out of which as developer you will learn following tasks NanoVMSupport Library [...]
Silverlight Page Flip
Page flip is a very impressive features in displaying your documents, images, media, etc.. The technique behind page flip is pretty complicated. Below is the page flip live application & source code link. You can download the source code here (VS 2010). I could not spare much time to write implementation notes , however, Rick Barraza has [...]
Dependency Properties
WPF introduces a new type of property called a dependency property, used throughout the platform to enable styling, automatic data binding, animation, and more. Definition of Dependency Properties on MSDN A dependency property depends on multiple providers for determining its value at any point in time. These providers could be an animation continuously changing its [...]
WPF Introduction
The Windows Presentation Foundation (or WPF) is a graphical subsystem for rendering user interfaces in Windows-based applications. WPF, was initially released as part of .NET Framework 3.0. Designed to remove dependencies on the aging GDI subsystem, WPF is built on DirectX, which provides hardware acceleration and enables modern UI features like transparency, gradients and transforms. [...]
Prism 2.0
Composite Application Guidance, affectionately known as Prism, version 2 was released in oct 2009. Prism provides guidance and code that can help you build modular applications that can adapt to constant changing requirements. Prism guidance is a set of tools, samples, references and written guidance to help you more easily build modular applications. Generally the “modular” [...]