August 2015 – Thomas Claudius Huber

27AugAugust 27, 2015

Render just the first line of a TextBlock

Sometimes you want a TextBlock to just display one line. For example if you have a huge virtualized ListView that contains many data items and in the DataTemplate you're using a TextBlock. When the TextBlock has different height, the virtualization leads to some not so nice behavior when scrolling: (more…)

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Creating a background application with WPF

Sometimes you need to have an application running in the background. Then you don’t want your MainWindow to be visible all the time. Instead you just want to have an icon in the notification area that allows the user to open up the MainWindow and to exit the application. In WPF you can do this easily with the help of Windows Forms’ NotifyIcon-class.

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