I thought I’d put together a quick post today on something that annoyed me and that I found unintuitive: binding with the WPF combo box. I’m doing some development following MVVM, and a situation came up in which I had a view model for editing a conceptual object in my domain. Let’s call it a…
For those familiar with the MVVM (Model, View, View-Model) pattern in .NET development, one conundrum that you’ve probably pondered, or at least read about, is what to do about showing a dialog. For a bit of background, MVVM is centered around the concept of binding from the View (XAML markup) to the “ViewModel”, which essentially…
In a previous post, I mentioned my ongoing progress with a DX Core plugin. I’d been using it successfully for some time now but had to dust it off again last week. Another convention that I’m required to abide for consistency sake but don’t much care for is explicit typing of my variables. That is,…
Microsoft Moles seems pretty cool, so I’ve decided to set it up and play with it. However, because it’s a research project, the documentation isn’t exactly thorough. I found some videos and various tutorials but nevertheless had a lot of digging in order to get it working. I’m going to document some of the hurdles…
One of the things that’s always surprised me about WPF is the lack of any kind of out-of-the-box file/directory browser dialog. It seems as though every time this comes up, I poke around the internet, hoping that it’s been added in some kind of update somewhere, but it never is. At least, it never is…
