In the comments of this post, Kym pointed out that I had been remiss in providing instructions, so I’ve now corrected that state of affairs. I’ve uploaded v1.1 to SourceForge, and the zip file includes an MSI installer as well as PDF and DOCX formats of instructions. As I alluded to in the comments of…
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…
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…
One of the central idioms of WPF development is having presentation tier classes implement the INotifyPropertyChanged interface. Anybody who has done more than a “Hello World” WPF application or two is almost certainly familiar with this and quite probably knows it like the back of his or her hand. As I’ve been learning WPF with…
