Posted in WPF, WPF Controls on May 13th, 2008
Transitionals is a WPF framework that allows you to integrate nice transition effects into your WPF application with very little effort. It’s gone live a few days ago on CodePlex and definitely worth checking out:
http://www.codeplex.com/transitionals
I’ve downloaded the library today in order to incorporate a little eye candy into a prototype I’m doing. However, what I […]
Posted in Open Source, WPF TreeView on Apr 7th, 2008
I’ve posted an update for my WPF TreeView which contains a bugfix and two new features:
The root item collection is now monitored for changes, and the tree updates itself automatically. This behaviour, however, can be controlled through the ObserveRootItems dependency property.
Built-in filtering support through a strongly typed predicate. I’m not completely […]
Posted in WPF Controls on Mar 14th, 2008
This is a pretty simple user control, which allows you to display a file dialog to open or save files. Its look can be easily adjusted, and it provides built-in truncation of the file string to a predefined length if necessary. Here’s the XAML for the above sample control:
<files:FileSelector x:Name=”openFileSelector”
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Posted in WPF Controls on Mar 6th, 2008
Just saw that Blendables have extended their portfolio of WPF controls. The stuff looks good, but unfortunately, their licensing scheme doesn’t:
A license is required for each machine utilizing the blendables controls. […] As we do not offer a deactivation method, if you must reactivate on a new developer machine you are allowed up to 3 […]
Posted in WPF, WPF Controls, WPF TreeView on Mar 6th, 2008
If you have a WPF TreeView control that shows nested data, and you don’t want the user to select nodes that contain child nodes, you can solve this declaratively as TreeViewItem provides all we need:
HasItems dependency property (bool)
Focusable dependency property (bool)
As both properties have the same type, you can use a binding expression (needs inversion […]
Posted in WPF TreeView on Feb 12th, 2008
There will be filtering and multi selection support in the next iteration of my WPF TreeView, but based on a request on the Code Project forum, I decided to implement a simple filtering mechanism on the current version.
First of all, you can provide filtering without even touching the control base class by just applying the […]
Posted in Open Source, WPF TreeView on Jan 24th, 2008
A tutorial is now available on Code Project, so check the article for a detailed overview. And please leave your rating if you like the control http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/versatile_treeview.aspx
Update: The latest version is currently only available through the download link below. I’ll update the CodeProject article once the current filtering mechanism has been rewritten:
Download: wpf-treeview.zip […]