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22SepSeptember 22, 2016

BASTA! 2016: Sessions and Slides

Thanks to all of you who attended one or more of my three sessions at the BASTA! Conference about

Integrating Office 365 Data into your app by using Microsoft Graph
Building Apps with the Universal Windows Platform
Input Validation in WPF with INotifyDataErrorInfo and DataAnnotations

Slides and demos are linked to the talks on www.thomasclaudiushuber.com/talks It was another fantastic BASTA! conference: Great people, great sessions, well organized and a lot of fun. Looking forward to see you at the next BASTA!

By Thomas Claudius HuberConferences, UWP, WPF0 Comments

26JulJuly 26, 2016

Race condition when using a Binding on a DoubleAnimation inside of a Storyboard

Nice example of a race condition on MSDN Forums, because the Binding is running on a different thread and won't update in time. Let's look at the problem: (more…)

By Thomas Claudius Huber.NET, C#, WPF, XAML4 Comments

23JulJuly 23, 2016

Open ComboBox from ViewModel in MVVM-scenario

On the Microsoft MSDN-Forums there was a question how to open up a Combobox in an MVVM-scenario from the ViewModel. To do this, (more…)

By Thomas Claudius HuberC#, MVVM, WPF, XAML0 Comments

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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22AugAugust 22, 2015

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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12NovNovember 12, 2014

The future of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and what’s coming next

In 2006 I started working with the first preview versions of the Windows Presentation Foundation with my Trivadis fellow Christoph Pletz. We wrote 2007 the very first German article about MVVM and 2008 I published my first book with the title “Windows Presentation Foundation – the ultimate handbook”. (more…)

By Thomas Claudius Huber.NET, Books, WPF0 Comments

28NovNovember 28, 2012

Windows Presentation Foundatoin 4.5 – WPF 4.5 – the 3rd edition is here

I’m proud to announce that the ultimate handbook about Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in .NET 4.5 is in stores now. Order your copy of the German-Speaking Topseller about WPF directly here on Amazon: Order WPF-Book on Amazon.de

Find all the Details about the book on www.thomasclaudiushuber.com/wpf Currently I’m working really hard on my book about Windows Store Apps. It’ll be released next year and can already be preordered on Amazon: Preorder Windows Store Apps-Book on Amazon.de

So maybe I’ll blog more again in the future. But for now I’m totally focused on finishing the Windows Store Aps-book. So far so good, stay tuned, Thomas

By Thomas Claudius HuberBooks, WPF2 Comments

07JunJune 7, 2011

.NET DevCon Nürnberg – WPF, Silverlight and HTML5

Thanks for joining my session at the .NET Developer Conference (DevCon) in Nürnberg today. As promised you find the slides of my session herer on my blog. Just click the download-link below. download slides Thomas

By Thomas Claudius HuberHTML, Silverlight, WPF0 Comments

04MayMay 4, 2011

TechDays 2011 – Demos online

Thanks to all who attended in my session at TechDays 2011 in Basel. My Live-Demo is available via the link below. TechDays Basel - LiveDemo - Download here The .zip-File contains a .bak-File that you can restore via SQL Server Management Studio by chosing “Restore Database” from the contextmenu when right-clicking on “databases” in Object Explorer.

By Thomas Claudius HuberConferences, WPF0 Comments

23FebFebruary 23, 2011

BASTA! Spring – Fortgeschrittenes DataBinding mit WPF

Danke an alle Teilnehmer meiner Session, die mir zu so später Stunde noch sehr aufmerksam und konzentriert folgen konnten. Ich hoffe, jeder konnte was mitnehmen. Folgend die Links zu den Slides und dem in der Live-Demo entwickelten Beispiel. Slides Demos Morgen früh um 8:30 Uhr geht’s weiter mit Silverlight und WCF RIA Services. Dabei wird auch das Windows Phone via SOAP mit Authentication an den WCF RIA Service “angehängt”. Thomas

By Thomas Claudius HuberConferences, WPF0 Comments