WPF – Page 4 – Thomas Claudius Huber

Windows Presentation Foundation

24NovNovember 24, 2009

WPF Printing: How to print a PageRange with WPF’s PrintDialog – that means the user can select specific pages and only these pages are printed

Printing a Page Range isn’t as easy as it supposed to be. So in this blog-post you’ll see a very easy method to print specific pages from a XPS-Document. But before we look at the solution, let’s start with the problem. (more…)

By Thomas Claudius HuberWPF6 Comments

31OctOctober 31, 2009

Hey Thomas, what’s coming up next?

I’ll give you just a short information of what is coming up next and what I did the last months. Let’s start with the things coming up…

… what’s coming up next:

WebTech-Conference – 16th November, Karlsruhe/Germany Another talk about datadriven Silverlight-Applications. Meet me at this conference for discussions about WPF, Silverlight, .NET in general, my books and other topics. Find more about the WebTech-conference on webtech
Update of the WPF-book to .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 The WPF-book was written about .NET 3.5. Next year .NET 4.0 will be released. There are many new things introduced in WPF. The DataGrid- and DatePicker-Control, VisualStateManager, Animation Easing Functions, Layout Rounding and so on. I’m working on an update of the book that will be released next year shortly after the German Visual Studio Release.
Writing a german book about Silverlight 4 Currently I’m working hard on my book about Silverlight 4. I've already written about 300 pages. The book will be released next year shortly after the Silverlight 4 release. There are no comments on the Silverlight 4 release, but at PDC in mid-November there’s a session about the Silverlight-Roadmap. Then we’ll know more. So stay tuned. Find more about the upcoming Silverlight-Book on the new silverlight-category on my homepage

… what I did the last months:

Silverlight-Articles I’ve written six articles about Silverlight for the German dotnet-magazine. Download the articles beside others on www.thomasclaudiushuber.com/articles.php.
PrioConference – 28th October, Munich/Germany I had a session about datadriven Silverlight-Applications. Find the Details on the new talks-category on my homepage.

So stay tuned. If you’ve any questions, leave a comment or write me an email via the contact-form on my homepage. Thomas

By Thomas Claudius HuberBooks, Conferences, Silverlight, WPF2 Comments

27AugAugust 27, 2009

WPF-Book on top in C#-Category

Even if it was maybe just for one hour, I’d like to say “Thank you” to all my readers for pushing the book up to the first place in the C#-Category on amazon.de. Cheers Thomas

By Thomas Claudius HuberBooks, WPF2 Comments

21FebFebruary 21, 2009

WPF "Advanced Layout"-Session at BASTA

Next week you can meet me at the BASTA - a German Conference about .NET, Visual Studio & more. I'll give a presentation about Layout-functionality in WPF on Tuesday at 13.30 o'clock. After the presentation you can meet me (on Tuesday only) and other "Trivadians" (the whole week) at the "Trivadis"-stand. I'm looking forward to see you there. :-)

By Thomas Claudius HuberConferences, WPF0 Comments

25AugAugust 25, 2008

The Lottery-Console-Application used at the last WPF-Event @ Microsoft Usergroup Switzerland

Last week we had a great WPF-afterwork-event at Microsoft Usergroup Switzerland (MSUGS) sponsored by Trivadis. I gave a deep-dive session about developing custom controls using WPF with many of it's features like Dependency Properties, Commands, Routed Events, PART-Elements, Theme-Styles and so on. (more…)

By Thomas Claudius HuberBooks, WPF0 Comments

30JunJune 30, 2008

WPF-book is now available in stores, maybe you win a free one @MSUGS

Since last week my German WPF-book is available in stores. You find more details about the book and some snippets of chapter 1 and chapter 14 on Galileo Computing. You can order the book on the Galileo Comuting-Website or on amazon.de and other stores. For any questions about the book, write a comment to this post or use the contact-form of my homepage. If you've already got the book, I'm looking forward to your feedback. What's going on next: Free MSUGS-Event about developing Custom Controls with the chance to win a WPF-book: On Wednesday, 20th August, you can visit a free event in cooperation with the Microsoft User Group Switzerland (MSUGS) about developing Custom Controls with WPF. The event will be in Zurich @Trivadis (Europastrasse 5). You find more details about the event here. At the end of this event, you can win one WPF-Book for free. WPF-Course @Trivadis: If you want to know more things about WPF-Programming, take a look at the 3-day WPF-course at Trivadis, which you find here. If you take this course, you'll get a WPF-book, the Trivadis course-material, and everything you need to become a rich & famous WPF-Programmer. ;-) DataAccess in the time of LINQ: Christoph Pletz and I are working on a TechnoCircle - a one day event you can visit in the second half of this year @Trivadis - about DataAccess in the time of LINQ. This TechnoCircle does not only show you how LINQ works, it shows how to implement a Data Access Layer in the time of LINQ in a Three-Layer-Architecture. It also discusses the usage of LINQ to SQL vs. Entity Framework vs. DataSets etc. As soon as you can register for the TechnoCircle, you'll find more infos on the Trivadis-website and of course here on my blog...

By Thomas Claudius HuberBooks, WPF0 Comments

31MayMay 31, 2008

Print of WPF-book will start next week

As I promised in my last post, here are some infos about my nearly finished book project: Last weekend I made checks on the first galley proof of my german WPF-book. Yesterday I got the second galley proof, the corrected one. The second galley proof I've checked yesterday evening and today. The book will have about 1125 pages filled up with pure Windows Presentation Foundation and will be printed at the end of next week. Last week I saw that the book is already listed under the WPF-books on WindowsClient.NET. Who ever linked it up, thanks a lot for doing so:

> http://windowsclient.net/community/books.aspx

As the corrections are made and the book will be printed next week, the upcoming weekend will be the first totally free weekend for me since one year. Two weeks ago I got a red card in a soccer match, so I'm not allowed to play the last game. So next weekend is really totally free, no soccer game and no book-writing. :-) So what should I do this upcoming weekend? I could start writing another WPF- or Silverlight-article. But no, on that first free weekend for such a long time I won't do that. I tell you what I'm going to do, if the weather won't be totally bad: About one month ago I bought a new bike (on the picture below), so I'll test it on a tour with my family next weekend. There are several mountains and single trails directly around our home, where you can jump and ride with a lot of fun. As I know there are also many bikers at Trivadis (the company I'm working for), maybe I'll meet some of them in a race down the hills through the great black forest

By Thomas Claudius HuberBooks, WPF6 Comments

18MayMay 18, 2008

Got the MCTS: .NET Framework 3.5, Windows Presentation Foundation

Last Thursday I took the exam for the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist .NET Framework 3.5, Windows Presentation Foundation. The exam is brand new and covers a wide spectrum of WPF. Im not sure, if asking Multiple-choice-questions is a good thing for testing the knowledge of programmers, but hey, the exam was a good test for my German WPF-book. (I didn't have the book with me, but it's still in my head. Like a branding :-)). After every question I read, I thought, if the answer of the question can be found in my book. And I'm really glad to say that, with some exceptions to specific deployment questions, everything can be found in my book. So if you know all contents and details of my book well, you won't have any problems to pass this exam. So with the book still in my head I did it and earned my fourth MCTS: MCTS_Logo

By the way, I've finished the manuscript for my wpf book in time. Since end of April the correctors give their best and I'm sure the book will be in stores in June 2008, according to plan. Find more infos about the book-process during the next weeks on this blog.

By Thomas Claudius HuberWPF6 Comments

18MayMay 18, 2008

UIAutomation to open ComboBox from Code

In WPF there's an Automation Framework called UIAutomation. This Framework can be used to control UIElements from code. This can be useful for different scenarios: (more…)

By Thomas Claudius HuberWPF3 Comments

16MayMay 16, 2008

WPF Multi-Layer Business Application for Download

Tomorrow Karl Shifflett is giving a Code Camp session in Charlotte. Unfortunately it's too far away for me to participate. :-) Today Karl has posted a really great WPF Multi-Layer Business Application that can be downloaded from his blog. Check it out here and learn from it. Thx to Karl for posting and sharing that great sample app.

By Thomas Claudius HuberWPF0 Comments